Sales Skills for Small Business Owners

Selling is a very important aspect of any business and although many small business owners don't like to consider themselves as 'sales people' per se in reality small business owners are actually key sales people who know their business and product or service offering better than anyone else in most instances. Let's identify what some key sales skills are and discuss how they can be further developed.

In a nutshell the key 'must have' sales skills include:

• Confidence
• Relationship building skills
• Listening
• Persuasion
• Product / service knowledge

Most of the skills listed above will be familiar to you, but I bet you are wondering, how can I apply this and learn to become a better sales person?

7 Tips To Grow Sales Using Social Media

Social media has become a selling force for the marketing world and marketers are taking a great advantage of it. Recent survey shows that about 75% of sales and purchase decisions are done through social media evaluations in one way or the other. Even the way we do business and maintain customer relationship has changed drastically within the last few years all because of social media. 

The traditional way of selling both offline and online has changed from email marketing, networking, phone calls and face to face discussions to almost complete social media selling. That been said doesn't mean our traditional ways of selling are no longer good or in use but, we rather make better use of them combining social media selling information and experiments to grow sales using social media.

Growing sales using social media

5 Tips for Writing Website Content for Your Small Business

Regarding your online presence, your website is, in essence, an ambassador for your business. 

Through it, you present your small business to your customers so they can understand all you offer.

Are you conveying a clear and compelling message through your website content? Here are 5 tips for writing website content that engages your niche market:

1. Make your copy current

Don't assume you can toss any old article or other form of content on your website to fill up space and engage your site visitors. People check out... and stay on... websites that offer timely and useful information. Update your site regularly on what products and/or services your business offers.

2. Have a focus for each page on your site 

Small Business Marketing: Free Webinar Training to improve your business marketing

You might have noticed that a lot more people are using online marketing to generate new sales for their business.

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There are a few really good reasons for this:

- You get free targeted traffic

- The cost is almost nothing to set up on various social platforms

- You can harness them to deliver new sales leads

- They work for any niche / profession

I have been doing online marketing for over 15 years now to market products, build mailing lists and generate new sales.

As a result I’ve helped dozens of small businesses create new sales opportunities.

You should seriously look into this; I’m running a free live webinar and I would love to show you some simple steps you can take to improve your marketing. I’ll talk about;

- Website changes that help sell your products or services

- How to use Facebook and Twitter effectively to bring more customers to your business

- Google tips to make your business stand out

- How to sell more to your existing customers

I will teach you in 5 easy steps, exactly 'How To increase Your Customers Dramatically & Grow Your Business In 7 Days Or Less…In 5 Easy Steps'.

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By Martin Goldthorpe

Email Marketing: 6 Tips to Get You Started Building Your List

After much research, the Direct Marketing Association found that the smartest email marketing plans bring in $43 for each $1 spent.

If you are just getting started with email list building, take note of these statistic, and use them as motivation. Here are 6 tips to help you create your own smart email marketing plan.

1. Give New Subscribers Valuable Opt-In Freebies

In order to start your email list you are going to have to give something away for free. These opt-in bribes should be something most people would pay for, but you give away without charge.

Not only will this make converts out of casual visitors, but will show people you have integrity in dealing with your subscribers. Your generosity and honesty will make everyone on your list eager to open every email you send them.

Click here for a free "Growing Your Business with Email Marketing" guide.

5 Tips for Small Business Success

As a small business, we face certain challenges that can add stress and anxiety to our daily lives. It is not always easy meeting payroll, hiring, figuring out what platform to market on and managing the finances. But, millions of small business owners do these things every day and their businesses thrive.

Here are 5 Tips for Small Business Success

Write Down Why You Started

As a small business owner, you may find yourself living on a roller coaster. Some days you feel like you are going to take over the entire universe while other days you fire yourself and walk off the job. And, early on in the small business process, you have more firing and walking off the job kind of days. It is in these days that you must remember your "why." Why are you doing this? Why are you so passionate?

Top 13 Ways Landing Pages Can Build Your Business

For many entrepreneurs and business owners, the online marketing scene can very confusing and overwhelming. All that marketing terminology that's constantly being thrown out there on a daily basis is enough to make one pull the covers over their head and hope it all just goes away.

It can be tough to get up to speed and learn the lingo well enough to be able to make informed decisions on whether your business could benefit from the latest and greatest marketing techniques available or not.

That's always been my goal with writing these business-related articles - to help you get the clarity you need to be able to move forward in an informed way.

So today's article shares some insights into landing pages.

These pages got their name from marketing campaigns that were designed to drive targeted people to a specific page on a website with the intention of converting them to do something.

That "something" is detailed later in this article but first, let's explore what they are.

What is a Landing Page?