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Cheryl Sowa
Cheryl Sowa

Small Biz Tip: Forecast the Future of Your Sales

Small Business tips about forecasting the future of your sales.


Tags: small business, tip, forecast, future, sales, predict, plan

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Posted: 6/19/2009 | Comments Comments (0)

Cheryl Sowa
Cheryl Sowa

Small Biz Tip: How to Close a Sale

Small Business tips about how to close a sale.


Tags: small business, tips, close, sales, prospective client, closing

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Posted: 6/18/2009 | Comments Comments (0)

Cheryl Sowa
Cheryl Sowa

Small Biz Tip: How to Grab a Prospective Client’s Attention

Small Business tips about how a sales team can grab a prospective client’s attention to lead to a successful sale.


Tags: small business, tips, sales, prospective client, attention

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Posted: 6/17/2009 | Comments Comments (0)

Cheryl Sowa
Cheryl Sowa

Small Biz Tip: How to Make a Successful Sales Call

Small Business tips about steps in order to make a successful sales call.


Tags: small business, tips, sales, calls, prospects

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Posted: 6/16/2009 | Comments Comments (0)

Cheryl Sowa
Cheryl Sowa

Small Biz Tip: Supporting Your Sales Staff

Small Business tips about supporting your sales staff.


Tags: small business, tip, sales, support, motivation

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Posted: 6/15/2009 | Comments Comments (0)

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Make the Sale Before Even Stepping Through the Door

Your business survives on sales, no question about it, but there is a little-known secret that the sale is won before you step into your potential customer's office. It all comes down to one word: Planning.


Tags: small business, sales, pre-call planning

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Posted: 3/6/2009 | Comments Comments (2)

Kim Fenolio
Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Sales : Ways to Sell your Products or Services

Small Business tips about ways to sell your products or services.


Tags: small business, tips, sales, products, services

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Posted: 3/6/2009 | Comments Comments (1)

Kim Fenolio
Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Sales : Business to Business Selling

How do you sell to another business instead of just the individual consumer? Business-to-business selling can be tough if you don't know what you're doing. These Small Business tips are about business to business sales.


Tags: small business, tips, sales, business, business to business

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Posted: 3/5/2009 | Comments Comments (0)

Kim Fenolio
Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Sales : Enhancing your Sales

What are the best ways to enhance your sales? Here are four simple ways to excel! Small Business tips about how to enhance your sales.


Tags: small business, tips, sales, enhance, customers

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Posted: 3/4/2009 | Comments Comments (6)

Kim Fenolio
Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Sales : Building Your Referral Business

How can I build my business using referrals? Learn four easy ways to get started! Small Business tips about building your business with referrals.


Tags: small business, tips, sales, referral, business, customers

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Posted: 3/3/2009 | Comments Comments (0)

Kim Fenolio
Kim Fenolio

Small Biz Tip: Sales : Getting to Know Your Customers

When you are trying to sell something, you need to know what you're selling and who you're selling to. How do you get to know your customers though? Small Business tips about the sales side of getting to know your customers.


Tags: small business, tips, sales, customer, service

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Posted: 3/2/2009 | Comments Comments (2)

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

A Vicious Cycle of Sales

It used to be that the holidays would roll around, prices would drop and then, once the annual consumer feeding frenzy was over, they would rise again. 2009 is shaping up to be something different, as retailers strive to keep the people coming in by piling sale on sale. A good strategy or do retailers just not know what to do? How can you break the cycle?


Tags: retail sales, sales, economy

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Posted: 1/6/2009 | Comments Comments (0)

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

A Lesson in Sales

What makes for good or bad salesmanship? I had a lesson in proper salesmanship last weekend while out looking for a new car that gave me the answer.


Tags: small business, sales, salesman, new cars

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Posted: 9/15/2008 | Comments Comments (1)

Dave Cosper
Dave Cosper

Driving Sales through Web Content

If you run a small business, there is a good chance that you have something important to say to your buyers. Whether it's about your products or services, best practices, or even shopping tips, there are opportunities on the Web to not only help your customers make better buying decisions but also for you to earn additional credibility that could directly lead to future sales.


Tags: optimization, marketing, pr, blog, blogging, enewsletters, seo, sales, small business

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Posted: 7/21/2008 | Comments Comments (1)

Lauren Calomino
Lauren Calomino

Sales Tax: How Will it Affect You and Your Business?

With most prices on the rise, many people are probably thinking, how can it get any worse? Well it can. In Illinois, on July 1, 2008 Cook County's sales tax has gone up to 10.25 percent which is now the highest of any major city in the country. With our struggling economy, no county in the United States is safe from increasing prices including sales tax.


Tags: taxes, small business, budget, sales tax, sales

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Posted: 7/15/2008 | Comments Comments (5)

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