Category Archives: 10 min Sales tips
Quick tips on how to land more clients
It’s easy for people to dismiss the price of your services when they don’t know the value. Here are 3 tools to help you examine how to best share that value and shift out who might be a good future client.
Oct
If you are a “roll up my sleeves and I’m gonna get it done” freelancer or business owner, this post is for you. You are smart enough to know that overnight successes are rare. You believe that starting and growing a business will take work. Time. Resources. And you are not afraid to roll up […]
Nov
If you are struggling about how your business can participate in Black Friday, I’ve got some solutions in my video below. Even if you are a busy shop owner – like the pie company I mentioned – you can engage in the holiday spending season. Why? People are going to spend money this time of […]
10 min Sales tips, Business mindset, How to build your business, Marketing best practices
The #1 reason why you must run a Black Friday promo
Oct
I’m betting you have a list of reasons why you aren’t interested in promoting a Black Friday special. I can’t afford to discount my prices drastically. I don’t have a ton of inventory. I wouldn’t know where to start. I don’t have the business model that makes sense to run a Black Friday special. It’s […]
10 min Sales tips, How to build your business, Your Customers Needs
Black Friday: How to recover if didn’t get the results you wanted
Nov
Did you offer a Black Friday promotion and get less than lackluster results? Perhaps it was your first time and you are totally disappointed that no one purchased. Or you have tried Black Friday sales before but are still not seeing the numbers you want. Let’s take a deep dive. After receiving way too many […]
10 min Sales tips, 10 min Strategy tips, How to build your business
What women really need to know about starting a business
Sep
Are you a female and want to start a business? Or grow your service based business to earn some serious cash flow? I’m sure you’ve heard the buzz about the increasing number of women entrepreneurs. I’m happy when ANYONE starts a business. But I have a special place in my heart for any […]
10 min Sales tips, How to build your business, Your Customers Needs
Make it easy for people to buy your services. Do this
Feb
Promote only three packages. I know. I know. There are 50 things that you want to sell. And probably 100 things that you are good at providing. Don’t. It’s too confusing. Share only three services when you talk to new prospects. People get confused when you are offering too many options. And they will move into […]
If you find selling hard, let me offer a suggestion which could make it easier: Stop talking Start listening Yes, stop telling people what you do. Don’t tell them your title. Or what your service offers. Or how many different colors, sizes, bells, and whistles your product comes with. And definitely don’t use industry terms […]
Oct
Starting a business is a funny thing. You start out with one idea and before you know it…it’s blossomed into a multi-national $40 million company with 10,000 employees. You are making moves and raking in the dough. Why? Because you have no shortage of good ideas. And ideas are great. But the big difference for […]