10 Ways To Improve Your Sales

Written by Robert Kempster


1.Determine your current situation. How are you currently positioned inrepparttar market? How do you compare torepparttar 119860 competition? Where would you like to be in a Year or in five years and how would you like to get there? Or more appropriately how can you get there, as it is not alwaysrepparttar 119861 way that you want that works. Planning requires that you understand how you currently stand.

2.Calculate your operational budget and determine how much you can afford to spend on an Ad campaign. Also, this isrepparttar 119862 stage to decide your campaign mediums andrepparttar 119863 effectiveness of different mediums of advertising as it applies torepparttar 119864 specific nature of your product and or services. It also helps to retain a percentage of your earnings towards future Ad campaign on an ongoing basis.

3.Since customers arerepparttar 119865 life-blood of any business, be sure to develop a good rapport with your customers. To keep your customers visiting, buying and begging for more; let them know how much you appreciate their business. Do not spare any personal touch you can invest inrepparttar 119866 relationship. It will pay for your time and effort tenfold. Create an Ezine to communicate with your customers and to generate new leads. This can be achieved by offering an opportunity to your visitors to subscribe to your ezine from your website or purchasing leads from a leads company.

4.Now, depending on your current position, you may not even have customers yet. If you are starting from scratch, your first order of business would be to start growing a customer base within your budget of course. Create or have a Strong Sales Copy done for your promotions. Consider targeted Ad campaigns through Google or other search engines. You may also consider some ofrepparttar 119867 other ‘Viral’ marketing Traffic Exchanges out there. Online campaigns consist of generating traffic to your website as this would improve your ranking withrepparttar 119868 traffic exchanges. Your ultimate goal is to generate free traffic which comes from a high ranking inrepparttar 119869 traffic exchanges. In other words, you need to generate traffic first and then you can work on convertingrepparttar 119870 traffic into buying customers or better yet, return customers.

5.Hire, rent, or buy a coach/mentor; and if you can not afford one, get some ofrepparttar 119871 informative ebooks and magazines out there. Your decision making prowess would be much better with this kind of backbone. Take note that even with allrepparttar 119872 information you may acquire from books and magazines, nothing compares to experience. Now, if you have to go on your experience then you are setting yourself up to learnrepparttar 119873 hard and costly way.

6.I hope you are getting warmed up by now. This one is a must-do for all Internet marketers. I am talking about Forum participation and membership. In fact, this whole article could have been written around link promotion, and only one other means compares to Forums when it comes to promoting your link/website and increasing your ranking. Join a Forum that concerns your line of business. The Forum would promote your link as a result of your participation in discussions and postings. The flip side is that it also provides you for free, knowledge base that compares to hiring a mentor.

Ten Tips for Creating a Winning Proposal – Part 1

Written by Cavyl Stewart


If you want your business to grow and attract new clients, you’ll have to start creating meaningful proposals. The goal of a proposal is obviously to be awarded new work. It accomplishes this goal by providing answers torepparttar questions of who, what, where, why, how and when.

But many small or home-based business owners have neitherrepparttar 119859 time, knowledge or resources necessary to create proposals that properly relayrepparttar 119860 pertinent information aboutrepparttar 119861 company and its ability to providerepparttar 119862 requested services.

Ifrepparttar 119863 mere thought of having to create a proposal is keeping you from bidding on jobs you know your business can handle, stop worrying! There are several proposal-building software products available that will help with this task.

Many are template-driven. All you have to do is selectrepparttar 119864 templates that are appropriate to include inrepparttar 119865 proposal, use your word processor to add text that is specific to your type of business, then sit back and watch a professional-looking proposal emerge from your printer.

Readrepparttar 119866 following tips for an idea ofrepparttar 119867 components that will help your proposals getrepparttar 119868 attention they need.

Tip #1 – Identifyrepparttar 119869 Problem

A proposal must show thatrepparttar 119870 person or company submitting it clearly understandsrepparttar 119871 problem thatrepparttar 119872 prospective client is attempting to remedy. Ifrepparttar 119873 proposal cannot show right away, in repparttar 119874 Executive Summary section, that you have a clear understanding ofrepparttar 119875 problem, those reviewing it won’t feel confident that your company will be capable of properly and effectively dealing with it. They’ll see no reason to read beyond repparttar 119876 Executive Summary section.

Tip #2 – Identifyrepparttar 119877 Proposed Solution

The proposal must also clearly outlinerepparttar 119878 manner in whichrepparttar 119879 bidder will address this problem. Include hererepparttar 119880 personnel you will assign torepparttar 119881 project and their resumes. Mention hererepparttar 119882 estimated timeline for completingrepparttar 119883 work outlined inrepparttar 119884 bid. Also showrepparttar 119885 anticipated costs and how they will be allocated. Don’t provide too much information aboutrepparttar 119886 proposed solution. You don’t want to giverepparttar 119887 proposed solution away for free!

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