Archive for Tag: #salesadvice

3 proven ways to sell slow-moving products (without the pressure)

Some products take longer to sell than others. They have a long sales cycle. Understand yours and work on mitigating this inevitability. Today, we look at some of the ways how to sell slow movingproducts. Why some products take longer to sell But first, why the long sales cycle? Various reasons exist for this: emotional

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Why stupidity gets you places in selling (and intelligence doesn’t)

“Displaying your intelligence to the buyer is displaying stupidity” Remain Dumb. Stupidity gets you places in selling. Yes, I know. You’ve been told that speaking intelligently and looking intelligent gets you places. True. And in this taking selfies, peer driven, Keeping Up With the Kardashians world, it will. But not in selling. To thrive in

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Simplicity is king when selling

“When I first heard about the cloud, I thought the information was held somewhere in the skies.” I was told this by the CEO of a thriving IT solutions firm. If you know what ‘the ‘cloud’, in computer terminology, means, you must be laughing. Don’t! That’s how you lose sales. By assuming buyers know, and

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