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Avoiding the Sales Talk Sledgehammers
There is a saying that when all you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The underlying idea is that given the choice of only one tool, you’ll probably try to use it in inappropriate situations. On the surface of many sales pitches is an...
Boost Sales With An Email Bonus!
If you are doing business online then you must have an email contact list. It is absolutely essential that you be able to email your list of subscribers, customers, hot prospects or general permission based list of non-customers with...
Don't Overlook The Easy Sales
Don't Overlook The Easy Sales Copyright 2003 Bob Leduc Are you so busy chasing down new customers that you completely overlooked these two prime sources for easy sales? Source 1: Existing Customers Here are two ways you can use your...
Managing the Sales Negotiation Process
How many times have you heard: * "You've got to drop your price by 10% or we will have no choice but to go with your competition." * "You will have to make an exception to your policy if you want our business." * "I know that you have good...
Shorten Sales Cycles in Complex Sales Environments
Help buyers discover the answers they need to understand and align all of their decision variables.
In complex sales, salespeople often find themselves negotiating their way through a web of decision influencers, conflicting initiatives, and...
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Website Owners: How to Get Sales and Marketing Help
Many people mistakenly believe putting up a website is marketing.
FACT: Websites need to be marketed so likely customers will visit them.
Many people mistakenly believe offering items on a website is sales.
FACT: You can have lots of traffic and still not make sales.
How will you build your website's sales? And what will you pay?
Assuming you have a good product, and a market exists for your product, you will need to add online sales and marketing expertise to your webbusiness.
You have 3 options.
1. Hire a full-time Internet Sales Marketing Director.
Description: He or she understands how to attract and keep customers. Manages budgets and people, sets goals and evaluates performance.
Pros: Knows how to build sales. Can have industry-specific experience and contacts, which may give your firm an advantage. The best will have extensive online sales marketing experience.
Cons: A huge investment, which makes this option only available to larger firms.
Cost: It varies by experience and where your business is located. According to Salary.com, a sales and marketing director position can command $96,000/year in Chicago, $107,000/year in Boston and $103,000/year in San Diego.
2. Contract with an online sales marketing specialist.
Description: These consultants have built up web-specific selling expertise. He or she is fully versed in attracting potential customers and converting them into buyers. Can develop a sales and marketing plan, prepare budgets, implement the plan and adjust it as needed.
Pros: Should be able to tell you how to get the most impact for your marketing dollars. Will first determine what needs to be done, then is connected to the copywriters, webdesigners, search engine specialists and the
necessary online tools.
Cons: May only be experienced in one area. For example, he may only be experienced in search engine placement and unaware of other tactics that would work especially well for your particular business.
Cost: Prices vary depending on the consultant and the size of your website. You can have a website tuneup done starting at a few hundred dollars.
3. Do-it-yourself Description: You can help yourself to free resources online or you can buy a book. The two top-sellers are the ebook Make Your Site Sale by Ken Evoy, and the 2-binder set, The Internet Marketing Course by Corey Rudl. There are also books available focused on search engines positioning, copywriting, traffic-building and more. A list of links to these resources is available at http://www.jawdrop.com/resources.html
Pros: Inexpensive and fast access to information from people who are succeeding at selling online. Many times these books contain specific info and lots of examples.
Cons: Even if you read the materials completely, the next challenge is implementation and accurate evaluation of the results. For example, a website owner may try a pay-per-click ad. If it fails to build sales, he may think "pay-per-clicks don't work", when an expert may see that it was the ad itself that failed, or that the ad pulled traffic but the website itself is hindering sales.
Cost: $0 - $397 plus time to get up to speed.
To get sales and marketing expertise, you can spend nothing to over a hundred thousand dollars.
Sales and marketing help for your website is out there. Reach out and get some now.
About the Author
Raynay Valles is an online marketer who turns non-performing websites into websites that sell. Email her now at rvalles@jawdrop.com or visit http://www.jawdrop.com
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Sales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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Sales Jobs .com Worlds Largest Sales Employment Site |
Sales Jobs features thousands of sales jobs for sales professionals. |
www.salesjobs.com |
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Manage Smarter - Performance Gateway |
Manage Smarter is the online home of sales & marketing management, incentive, potential, presentations and training magazine. |
www.salesandmarketing.com |
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Oracle Customer Relationship Management Solutions |
Oracle's products cover the breadth of CRM functionality—from sales, ... With Siebel CRM On Demand, you can accelerate sales, improve marketing and deliver ... |
www.oracle.com |
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Sales and related occupations |
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www.bls.gov |
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Sales Jobs - Search Sales & Marketing Jobs at Monster.com |
Sales Career Paths: This field offers many different options. ... Manage Your Sales Career: Get expert tips for developing your sales career and handling ... |
sales.monster.com |
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Government Sales and Auctions: FirstGov.gov |
Official site for information on all sales and auctions of government surplus property and assets. |
www.firstgov.gov |
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Sales and Marketing Executives International |
Worldwide association of sales and marketing management. |
www.smei.org |
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GPO U.S. Government Bookstore: Main Page |
Purchase Federal information products for sale through the United States Government Printing Office (GPO). Browse by topic, keyword, or special collections. |
bookstore.gpo.gov |
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Sales |
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www.managementhelp.org |
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Sales Resource Center - Business Sales Web Site - Small Business ... |
Sales resource center at Inc.com, small business sales and marketing information. |
www.inc.com |
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Sales - Wex |
Transactions for the sale (and leasing) of goods is governed mainly by sales ... Federal law has a limited impact on transactions for the sale of goods. ... |
www.law.cornell.edu |
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Sales Jobs, Marketing Jobs, Advertising Jobs on CareerBuilder.com |
Looking for sales & marketing jobs? Start your job search at CareerBuilder, the leader in job search sites, and access hundreds of thousands of jobs today. |
sales-marketing.careerbuilder.com |
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Compare prices for retail store sales at SalesCircular |
SalesCircular shows what's on sale at local retail stores every week by collecting data from Sunday newspapers and other ads. |
www.salescircular.com |
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Sales Jobs in Canada - workopolis.com |
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www.workopolis.com |
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free online sales training articles, sales & selling processes ... |
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www.businessballs.com |
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Music Sales Group |
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www.musicsales.com |
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Sales Autopsy |
A collection of the best of the worst of negative selling experiences. Sales horror stories to use for learning, training and managing salespeople. |
www.salesautopsy.com |
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REALTOR.com: Real estate listings & homes for sale |
REALTOR.com is the world's largest real estate database of homes for sale and the official site of the National Association of REALTORS. |
www.realtor.com |
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Marketing Jobs / Sales Jobs - NationJob.com Careers, Work ... |
Marketing Jobs / Sales Jobs - detailed job listings and company profiles - Updated daily. |
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