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Affiliate marketing resembles a consignment store. Your web site promotes merchandise and for all your work, you will receive a cut from each purchase. There isn’t as much time involved, very few overheads, it works while you sleep, and what is even better, it’s comparatively easy to master. First of all, you need to decide precisely what area most suits you. To get this out of the way, determine what a particular group of interenet users are expecting, and discover a means to resolve those issues. An easy way of achieving this speedily is finding groups of long tail keywords; there are fewer searchers for these in general, but they will convert far more. If you need to find these profitable words or phrases, you should use programs such as Micro Niche Finder. Data compiled from Micro Niche Finder or analogous programs or services compiles a list of related words and phrases which you can focus on in order to obtain a good listing in the search engines and bring in a lot of of traffic. Further information is also available by the program, for example how many searches every word or phrase gets, exactly how many other internet sites who use them, and how good those websites are. Ultimately, the data generated can help identify appropriate domains, help you put together your website, and even identify the greatest sales opportunities. Now it’s time to build a internet site; but it will take a bit more than that. Search engine optimization is absolutely fundamental. Here Seo Elite information can help may help. This program automatically examines the websites of your rivals and can provide you with advice on exactly what you need to do in order to achieve top place in the search engine results.

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Are you the consummate sales professional?

Do you have what it takes to do what it takes to run circles around your competition?

Last Sunday and Monday I was hanging out with six of my Speaking buddies in Chicago and we talked about everything under the sun including the word competency. It’s an interesting word. Webster’s Dictionary says it means - sufficient means for one’s needs, adequate, ability, and fitness.

On page 298 of my dictionary you’ll find these three words, compete, competence, and complete. Here’s how I see it. If you’re going to compete, you must have competence, and it must be complete - no missing pieces.

Can you pass this sales fitness (Selling Skills) test?

I’ll be using the word “System” a few times. A system is defined as a method or a plan, an established way of doing something - in writing. Whereas to improvise is to do things on the spur of the moment.

1. Do you have a system for working new leads? Or do you improvise?

2. Do you have a system for making appointments using the telephone? Or do you improvise?

3. Do you have a system for qualifying your prospects? Or do you improvise?

4. Do you have a system for quantifying your prospect’s pain? Or do you improvise?

5. Do you have a system for presenting your products/services as solutions? Or do you improvise?

6. Do you have a system for dealing with the price objection? Or do you improvise?

7. Do you have a system for preparing sales proposals? Or do you improvise?

8. Do you have a system for following-up? Or do you improvise?

9. Do you have a system for closing the sale? Or do you improvise?

Which of these pieces (Systems) are you missing? Congratulations if you already have these NINE systems. Keep reading if you’re missing any.

Do you have any idea how effective you’d be in front of all prospects/customers if you had a system for each of the major steps in your selling process?

I have to fess up here. I was a big time improvisor in the past. However, not any more. Today I rely on “Systems” to beat my goals and to achieve personal success.

You can too! Here’s how:

On the flight back from my meeting with my Speaking buddies I started outlining an eBook. An eBook is delivered as a PDF file which of course can be printed. The title is, “How To Become Complete, So You Can Compete. Nine Mini Systems That Will Immediately Derail Your Competition.”

Because the eBook isn’t finished yet, you can reserve your copy for only $12.95. As soon as I e-mail the first copy, probably October 11th, the price will jump to $19.95.

It gets even better. As a special bonus everyone who reserves a copy of this new eBook, will also get another eBook titled, “No-Brainer Ways To Beat Your Competition At The Pricing Game.” This is a $39.95 value which means you’ll get both eBooks for only $12.95 and save an incredible 78%.

I’m writing this eBook especially for salespeople who are tired of improvising and tired of getting pounded by the competition.

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One final thought about this - if you’re not complete you can’t compete!

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Several weeks ago, I conducted a “Mastering the Cold Call” seminar for the Printing Industries of Connecticut and Western Massachusetts. At the end of the seminar, a participant came up to me and said, “Thank you! I learned so much! I learned ‘Don’t Take No for an Answer.’” Another participant standing to his side exclaimed, “No! What I learned is, ‘Don’t Make No Your Answer!’”

How often do you do thatespecially on an introductory call? How often do you project your fears and insecurities onto the prospect you are calling and decide that you are doomed before you dial?

The definition of a cold call or an introductory call is that you are calling a stranger. This stranger could be having a good dayor a bad day. This stranger could be warm and friendly or brusque and dismissive. There is no way of determining this ahead of time. Beware of doing a mind read of your stranger/prospect and basing your subsequent actions on what you think your prospect is thinking.

“I don’t like calls on Monday morning”therefore, no one likes calls on Monday mornings. This leaves out all the people who actually like calls on Monday mornings because that’s when they plan their calendars for the week.

“I know my prospect is avoiding me.” How do you know this? How could your prospect be avoiding you? Your prospect doesn’t even know you.

We all have choices. You can choose to believe that your prospect does not want to speak with you, is busy and not interested, or you can choose to believe that your prospect will enjoy hearing from you and will be open to what you have to say. The first belief is self-limiting and does not serve you. The second belief leaves you free to pursue new business.

The emotional “baggage” that you bring to introductory calling influences your attitude, which you then project in your conversation. Your prospect can hear if you feel unsure, afraid or uncomfortable, in the same way that you can pick up on those uneasy feelings when speaking with someone. On some level, you help create the attitude of the person to whom you are speaking. If your expectation is that your call will be unwelcome, this will make you anxious and tentative. Your prospect will pick up on that, and it will be likely to make her less receptive to you.

Put another way, there are the facts and there are the stories we tell ourselves about the facts. The facts are: You need to make some introductory calls. You will pick up the telephone and make a call. You will either reach your prospect or not. If you reach your prospect, you’ll say what you have to say. Your prospect will say what she has to say. And that’s it. Those are the facts.

The story: I’m interrupting my prospect. My prospect does not want to hear from me. My prospect already has a vendor. My prospect is avoiding me. My prospect hates me… And on and on…

It is time to change your story. I invite you to use my introductory calling story until you create a better one of your own. My story: I will reach my prospect, who will be delighted to hear from me. We will have a good conversation. I will get what I ask for.

Wishing you all introductory calling success!

© 2004 Wendy Weiss

Wendy Weiss, The Queen of Cold Calling & Selling Success, is a sales trainer, author and sales coach. She is the author of Cold Calling for Women and the recently released Cold Calling College. Get her free e-zine at http://www.wendyweiss.com.

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Face it - nobody likes cold calling. Most of us cringe when we hear these words - we tend to conjure up visions of a vacuum cleaner salesman reaching in and pouring cigarette ashes on the rug before we can get the front door closed.

In recent years, many small businesses have been founded on the premise that the World Wide Web will make personal selling obsolete and unnecessary. The truth is: unless your product or service is cutting-edge with few competitors, you will have to sell it! And by selling it, I am not referring to impersonal Website selling; we’re talking belly-to-belly, folks!

Listen, I realize that some of you get nervous at the mere thought of having to “cold-call” strangers. But wait - this isn’t so scary as you might imagine. Let’s evaluate a somewhat “softer” side of selling from a systems perspective.

The plain truth about selling is: we all do it. You do it. I do it. Your significant other does it. And believe it or not your kids use selling techniques on you all the time. Anyone who has accomplished anything in his or her life has had to sell people on an idea or the value of a project in order to get there. That’s right - they sold someone on the idea of helping him or her. The problem is that in our society we have a skewed idea of the true value of something that in reality we use all the time! The truth is: selling is an accepted and necessary social activity, when conducted in an honest, straightforward way.

Before we can begin to develop a systematic approach to selling, we must come to terms with the following truths:

1.Selling is a necessary activity that creates value for both seller and buyer.

2.You should not try to sell to someone who doesn’t yet see need or value in your product or service.

3.Trust and confidence are the most important components of the selling relationship. They are a challenge to obtain and remarkably easy to lose.

Let’s take a look at each of these in turn. To begin with, you must believe in the value you and your product or service can provide to your clients. If you don’t believe in your own value, you won’t come across as sincere when you talk to people about it. People don’t buy anything from insincere people. So if you feel that salespeople in general are simply devious predators, get over it! The truth is, selling is a necessary and vital activity that brings solutions together with problems to the benefit of all concerned. You are an expert in your field - a problem solver. Think of yourself as a vital component of your potential clients’ chain of success. Doesn’t knowing this foster a more positive self-image than that of a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman with a can of ashes? (My apologies to vacuum cleaner salespeople everywhere!)

Now that you see yourself as a problem-solver rather than a salesperson, let’s look at truth number two. We’ve all heard sales trainers stress that you must convince prospective customers that they need your product or service. While it is true that most people have problems that require solutions, it’s also true that folks simply don’t like other people they don’t know telling them what the right solution is. I stress the phrase, “people they don’t know.” This is key, and an important component of truth number three, which I’ll address in a moment. So how do you get prospects to see the value in your offering? Answer - try a more collaborative approach. Begin by striking up conversations with potential clients in neutral situations. Examples of neutral situations include meetings of fraternal (Rotary, Kiwanis, Jaycees) and trade organizations (your industry or professional specialty probably has several of these, possibly with local chapters), which you should join if you are truly serious about growing your business; business “meet & greets”; community volunteering opportunities; and certain family events like your kids’ sports and extracurricular activities. These are all opportunities to meet local business people who have problems that will benefit from your solutions.

I know - you don’t want these new acquaintances to think of you as one of those (see “can of ashes”) people. However - and this is important - if you want to be successful, you must be continuously promoting your business. No one will do that for you, unless you can afford a public relations officer and an expensive ad agency. Accept this as a fact of business life.

So how should you approach someone in a neutral environment? First of all, get to know the person personally. Try to find a common personal interest you can discuss together. After all, you’re both at this event, right? So you may have more in common than you think. Next, ask the other person what they do for a living. Try to draw them out and get them to be specific. Asking leading questions and listening actively will help you determine if your product or service is applicable to their situation. If it isn’t - well, you’ve at least possibly made a new friend and confidant, and what’s wrong with that? If you do find that your new contact might be a problem you can solve, don’t jump on them with anything that smacks of “sales pitch” at this point - you’ll just turn them off. Instead, explain briefly what you do and take this approach: ask the new contact if you can meet them (over lunch, golf, tennis, in their office, racquetball, dinner, or whatever works) for a few minutes to get their thoughts on what they think of your business and your approach. Don’t sell- instead ask for a little consulting help. Make them feel that you genuinely value their advice.

Once you have set up the meeting, show up intending to involve the other person in your business. Let them get to know you personally first by sharing personal information about yourself. This begins the process that is brought to light in truth number three: trust and confidence are what get you new business - not hard selling skills. Whether you know it or not, by allowing the prospect to get to know you a little, you’ve already begun the selling process. Keep it soft - don’t pressure your prospect too much. At the same time, be listening for opportunities to show him or her what your capabilities are. Be ready with testimonials: stories of projects you’ve worked successfully that mirror your prospect’s situation. People like stories; they add credibility and make it easier to relate problems to solutions. Draw out the prospect - remember this rule: if you’re talking, you’re not selling. Become an active listener. Successful salespeople only do 25 percent of the talking in a sales interview.
Now that you have established rapport and begun to develop a personal relationship, it’s much easier to discuss the solutions you are selling and relate them to problems your new acquaintance may be experiencing. This is not so scary, is it? Here’s a recap of this client-generating “system”:

1.Join business and professional organizations and get involved in their activities. In addition, be aware of the potential for making contacts in other social situations.

2.Approach the people you meet as a person who is worth knowing personally first. Invite them to get together socially in a neutral place.

3.During the meeting, strengthen your personal relationship before getting to business.

4.Next, ask them what they think of your business; ask the prospect to act as a casual “consultant” to your business.

5.Once you’ve established a personal relationship, the trust you’ve nurtured makes it much easier to talk with them about the business solutions you are prepared to offer.

For small business owners, new business development can be a daunting task. Taking a low pressure/ non-aggressive approach toward developing new clients can be quite rewarding; it certainly is considerably less threatening for both you and your potential clients. It also makes more sense than the hard sell, “ashes on the rug” approach we all know and dread. Next time, try the friendly approach - I think you’ll be surprised how effective it can be.

Brian Cushing is a sales trainer, college professor, and author; his firm, Peddlesmarter.com, helps small businesses develop and manage new customer relationships through promotional and sales training activities.
Contact him at: boxstep052@sbcglobal.net

Easy, quick and painless. If your Credit policy is flowing smoothly, it is probably all of these.

“Become the Squeaky Wheel,” a new book written by a leader in the debt collection industry, Michelle Dunn, explains that Credit policies are a must for any business. Her book will give you the tools you need to collect more money and prevent bad debt in the future.

Some steps you can take to make your credit policy, Easy, quick and painless are:

1. Make it easy for the customer to get credit with you. Have packets paper clipped together at the front desk, include the credit application, automatic payment permission forms and anything else you want filled out before opening an account.

2. Make it quick, by having these packets ready and waiting for anyone who comes in. Have pens and clip boards available so they can be filled out immediately.

3. Make it painless, by either having them wait and running the credit application while they are still there or responding to them within a certain time period, say 24 hours.

“Consumers today, like everyone else, are expecting convenience and speed,” explains Michelle Dunn. “If you make opening up a credit account difficult or are unorganized, you might lose the customer.”

“Customers that are approved for credit, will buy more if they can pay later, so make the process as streamlined as you can,” says Dunn.

Michelle Dunn has over 17 years experience in credit and debt collection. She is the founder of Never Dunn Publishing, LLC, is a writer, consultant and the Editorial Advisor for Eli Financial Debt Collection Compliance Alert Newsletter. Michelle started M.A.D. Collection Agency and ran is successfully for 7 years. She owns and runs Credit & Collections.com a free online community for credit and business professionals.

She has written 5 books in her Collecting Money Series. For more information on Michelle’s services or to order any of her books please email her at michelle@michelledunn.com or visit http://www.michelledunn.com & http://www.credit-and-collections.com