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Entries for May, 2009

CREATING MORE MONEY TO BUY WHAT YOU HAVE TO SELL

Every one of us is hoping and praying for business to pick up. We are all heartily sick of this talk about buyers having no money to spend for the thing we are selling. But hoping isn’t going to put business back on its feet any more than wishing will take the place of real salesmanship.

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Postcard Printing and Marketing Made Easy

Postcard mailers are one of the most effective forms of direct marketing. And unlike advertising, postcard printing is simpler and more affordable. Postcard marketing is made easy due to dependable service providers that you can readily find on the internet. A number of postcard printing companies offer an extensive line of services that takes away the worries of facilitating a postcard mailer campaign.

Here are the stages of developing a postcard mailer campaign:

1. Establish Your Objectives

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Opt-in Email-Advertising and Marketing Solutions

Email advertising and marketing solutions together make a wonderful combination to promote your business. Email Marketing Services Florida are considered as the best option. The main aim of these Email Marketing Florida companies is to prepare an email advertising campaign for customers who like to know more frequently about new products and services. Hence what your website witnesses is high traffic and more sales. By using this method actually, you don’t spend more money on bulk services and there is no spamming of mails.

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INSURANCE SALESMAN USES “THIRD PARTY” PLAN

H. Everett Farnham, of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, devised a unique plan to sell a twenty-five-thousand-dollar policy to the president of a small college in Missouri.

This salesman had stopped off at the college town many times knowing that the college president was a logical prospect. But the prospect was always too busy talking to the students, delivering a lecture to a class, or some other important work, so that he managed to avoid talking business.

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Is direct marketing right for you?

Is Direct Marketing Right For You?

Last Tuesday I received a sms from my son’s school. It caught me by surprised because the school had closed for the vacations.

‘What could they possibly want, now?’ I thought.

 

The school was calling for a special meeting with parents to decide on the new school bus service.

 

The meeting was on a Sunday so I went. When I reached the school, there were a few hundred parents already assembled there. I learned that all of them had received a similar sms.

 

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WHEN THE HEAD OF THE BUSINESS GOES OUT TO SELL

He usually comes back with the order in his pocket and the chances are nine to one it will be an order that any one of us would be mighty proud to close.

At times we can’t help but wonder how he does it. Certainly there are others who are more generously endowed by nature with what we like to call “the born attributes of a good salesman.” There are salesmen who are better talkers; who make a better first impression; who have far more experience in actual sales work.

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WHAT IS A SALES POLICY WORTH?

Take two companies in your line.
One of these concerns marches steadily forward. Each year its prestige and sales volume grows. The best sales person are attracted to its sales force. It is spoken of as “a good firm to tie to.”
The other company barely holds its own. It has to fight for every dollar’s worth of business. Old customers drop out as fast as new customers can be added. It is spoken of as being “on the toboggan.”
Yet each of these companies has the same opportunity. It has the same territory to cover; the same people to sell; the same number of days in the year. “What makes the difference?”
SALES POLICIES. Your business ? any business ?succeeds or fails because of its policies. That is why the house gives such careful thought to formulating policies. They are not any one person’s ideas, but the combined experience of many people over a long period of years.
There may be times when you feel that your judgment is better than the company policy. But if it is right for you to set yourself above the policy of the business, then it is equally right for every other member of the organization to do the same.
A business cannot succeed unless it has a policy, and unless its sales people back the policy ? regardless of whether it seems right or wrong at the time.

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THE BUYER WHO WANTS TO WAIT FOR PRICES TO COME DOWN

One salesman, for instance, persuaded a certain retail merchant to place a four-thousand-dollar order to fill up a much-depleted stock. The buyer had been delaying the purchase for some time, offering the usual bewildering arguments which salesmen in all lines are getting today. In inducing the merchant to place the order, the salesman said:

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HOW ONE SALESMAN CLOSED AN EIGHT-CARLOAD ORDER

Walter N. Mathews, who sells limestone out of Chicago, closed an order for a carload every Tuesday and Friday for a month. The order came from a big buyer upon whom Mathews had been calling for a period of years with no result. He is one of those buyers who will turn you down for no reason whatsoever.
Mathews is now using on this buyer what he calls his “abandon plan.” Although quite an athlete, he does not claim to be any Babe Ruth. However, he does endeavor to use in his plan some of the principles that form the basis for the batting champion’s ability to crack the horsehide pill in such a fashion as to make a dent in the fence behind the center fielder.
What makes Babe Ruth the world’s champion batsman? Sports writers have used up reams of paper trying to explain it. Charts showing the measurements of his physique do not answer the question. Some try to answer it by stating that this champion hits it remarkable ability to hit the ball in the right place, at the right time, and while the swing of the bat is at the maximum. But is this the real answer?
Of course not. It is the previous hard work, study, practice and extended concentration that make it possible to win a championship. Any writer who believes that Babe Ruth has been doing the most important work of his life during the past two years is wrong. The most important work of any champion has been done before he comes into prominence as a champion.

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US HOT STOCKS: Pericom Semiconductor, Interline Brands – Wall Street Journal

US HOT STOCKS: Pericom Semiconductor, Interline Brands
Wall Street Journal
(WPO, $365.88, -$52.71, -12.59%) swung to a first-quarter loss and higher charges as its struggling newspaper and magazine units continued to weigh on results, with the advertising slump worsening at its namesake newspaper. The newspaper segment swung

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