Small business marketing: Sales strategies

There are 3 things you need to have in place 100% of the time to make sure sales are generated everyday. I like to make the analogy with gardening because they have a lot in common.

1. Seeding- you need to be prospecting regularly without being too much in your face. On this stage is where you can benefit a lot from social media. Beware not to make the number one mistake: water too much and ruin the seeds- or spend the whole day on Facebook, give too many tips or provide too much access to you.

2. Picking. There is a right moment to pick the flowers before they loose their momentum. Same thing here, there is a right moment to close the sale. Flowers won’t pick themselves and put themselves in a vase, clients won’t take action either without your help.

3. Keep them blooming. You want your plants to bloom again just like you want existing clients to keep buying. Long lasting prosperity is achieved by selling over and over again to existing clients. Too many times we invest to make a prospect become a client, so our first sale does not bring profits. By selling other solutions to them at different price points is where profit is made.

Increasing sales in a business

Every day we have a quick meeting in the morning where we focus on one specific way to bring sales that day and one to cut costs. This helps us remember that marketing is also about making sales and specific actions are necessary

Sell more in this new Economy

The new economy has changed the way we sell and the way people buy.

You might have felt this in your business, but do you know how to adapt to the new reality?

BuzzBoosters has just release a new flash program that will guide you step by step on how to sell more in the new economy.

I don’t want to brag but this program can change your life.

This program targets decisive business owners that want to take action and generate more sales.

We’ll not be offering this program in the same format in the future.

Check more about the Off-Road Sales Strategies for the New Economy

Top 10 reasons why people don’t buy

If you are not seeing sales lately or you don’t see as many sales as you’d like, here is a list of some reasons why that may be happening:

1. Your message is not clear

2. They don’t trust you.

3. You are not getting their attention.(it doesn’t matter if you have 5 k friends on Facebook, it matters how many people are paying attention to what you say)

4. Fail to create desire. (This can be very simple as offering a free report)

5. You think talking to them once is enough.(in a noisy market place you need to reach people several times and you need to do this without being annoying)

6. You don’t follow-up.

7 Not having a strategy for them to initiate the contact. (which is proven to increase sales by 60%)

8. You are not leading the sales process.

9. You don’t have a sales process, you just sell.

10. You don’t clearly state the value of what you are offering.

Bonus: You are not talking to the heart. Remember, you sell to the heart.

Bonus 2: When using social media to market your business you cannot just offer people your services or products, you need to provide value, interact and engage them first. Sorry but the advertise age is dead.