If you'd like your business to sell more, keep reading. Here are 3 simple and effective steps that exceptional businesses use to grow sales.

Step One: Throw out all reasons why you're not selling more.

That's right, those same reasons you just came up with. What if you had to come up with ways to sell more, despite those reasons? What would you do?

For example, many business owners say they can't sell more because of poor economy. That's a good reason, but so what. At same time, some businesses thrive in poor economic times.

What about "no money" reason? Many businesses don't have a marketing budget. There are similarly strapped companies who grow on a shoestring. They don't let good reasons stop them. Don't let good reasons stop your business from succeeding.

Step Two: Start marketing.

Use your reasons as a starting point. Take poor economic times. In poor economic times, what do people want? In general, people are looking for value or fun or both value and fun. How can you add fun to your business? Can you offer discounts for stocking up? Discounts for prepaying? Or instead of a discount, how can you offer more value?