Posts Tagged ‘sales’

10+ Powerful Sales Concepts For Blogging Success

Selling Subscriptions to Your Blog

If you’re giving away subscriptions for free, why is it so hard to get subscribers? Well, because there is a cost to subscribing, and the cost is in the form of people’s most valuable currency, time. If you want more RSS subscribers to your blog, then you will need to sell those subscriptions. How do you do that? Simple. You use the same sales… » Continue

May 30 2007 | By K. | Tagged: blogging, branding, feed, rss, sales, subscription | 10 comments»

Top Ten Sneaky Retail Sales Tricks

The retail market is competitive and, at times, deceptive. I’ve worked as a salesperson, and this list of tricks that are used to get you, the customer, to buy are pretty spot on. Generally these are only retail helpers to make it easier to sell, since people hate being sold to. However, many salespeople are quite vindictive in their approach, so don’t fall for the tricks!
10. The “Turn Over” Maneuver… » Continue

February 27 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: sales | 2 comments»

Open your own e-store with Zlio

Create your own online shop with Zlio.com. Zlio is a site that has been running in France for the past five months and recently switched over to the US. Here’s how it works: you sign up and create your own virtual shop, then you pick the products you want to sell from a list of over 1,000,000 products, you advertise the virtual shop and earn commissions for… » Continue

February 14 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: online, sales, stores, Technology | no comments»

Sell Like a Pirate

The Remix Culture Rules!!! Over at Simplenomics, Mike has rewritten my (somewhat controversial) Work Like a Pirate post into a rework: Sell Like a Pirate. The advice is swell, especially considering I’m a cruddy salesperson and love to learn about it from those in the know. Here’s an example of one of Mike’s rewrites:

A Pirate Is Not His Ship - Your product or service is only the start… » Continue

May 29 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: pirates, remix, sales, selling | 2 comments»

Sales Tips for Tech Folk

You’ve got to respect an article that starts off like this:

I’m not a sales person – and I don’t play one on TV. So, in case you’re wondering what qualifies a technology guy like me to offer advice on sales, my only response is this: The fact that I’m not a sales person is precisely why you might benefit from some of these tips, given that chances… » Continue

May 5 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: client, customer, sale, sales, start-up, startup, vision | no comments»