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The SmallBizChat Podcast: Building Your Sales Operation Systems with Liz Heiman

April 15, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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Liz Heiman is the Founder, CEO, and Chief Sales Strategist at Regarding Sales LLC. She and her team help companies build sales systems strategies to drive extraordinary growth. She employs a strategic process to create a roadmap for success to focus her clients and their employees on getting the results they need. She holds a […]

Filed Under: The SmallBizChat Podcast Tagged With: complex sales problems, effective lead generation strategy, marketing-qualified lead, sales operation system, sales process, sales-qualified lead, small business mistakes

March 2021 #Smallbizchat: Building a Sales System to Scale and Build Wealth

March 18, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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#Smallbizchat Podcast LIVE is a monthly video interview show where small business owners can get answers to their questions. The focus of #Smallbizchat is to end small business failure by helping participants succeed as your own boss. Please join us live every third Wednesday of the month from 8-9 pm ET Live on my SmallBizLady Facebook […]

Filed Under: SmallBizChat, SmallBizChat Live+ Tagged With: building wealth, leadership, leverage technology, live a wealthy life, sales operating system, sales process, scaling your small business

10 Ways to Develop a Sales Process in a Service Business

March 9, 2020 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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For the last year, I’ve been teaching my Fix Your Business Book Curriculum to entrepreneurs in the construction industry in Philadelphia. One of the biggest challenges they needed help with was sales and marketing. That made me think that what I shared with them could be helpful to any service business. In any business, you […]

Filed Under: Fix Your Business, Grow Your Business Tagged With: effective sales plan, fix your business, running your small business, sales process, winning proposal

5 Top Technologies to Use to Streamline Your Sales Process

July 10, 2018 By Melinda Emerson

Guest Article Sales people are miracle workers who can make an entrepreneur’s dream come true. However, sales goals have become harder to achieve even for experienced sales people due to lack of technology support and strategy in the sales process. Top level businesses equip their sales people with technology to boost their performance and close […]

Filed Under: Guest Articles, Technology Tagged With: sales process, streamline sales, technology

Are You Dragging FEAR Into Your Small Business Sales Process?

May 9, 2017 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Guest Article As a small business owner, our mortgages, our cars, our families, our LIVES, can hinge on our business and our ability to sell and generate revenue. We take that incredibly personally and the stress and fear of losing a customer or blowing a sale can lead us to inject those anxieties into our […]

Filed Under: Grow Your Business, Guest Articles Tagged With: business opportunity, sales process

How to Develop a Sales Process for Your Small Business

March 16, 2017 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Every week as SmallBizLady, I conduct interviews with experts on my Twitter talk show #SmallBizChat. The show takes place every Wednesday on Twitter from 8-9 pm ET. This is excerpted from my recent interview with Dianna Geairn. Dianna is The Irreverent Sales Girl. She and her team provide a transformational sales message to your sales […]

Filed Under: Featured Post, Featured SmallBizChat, Q & A Interview, SmallBizChat Tagged With: @isalesgirl, Sales management, sales process, SmallBizChat

How to Shorten the Sales Cycle in Your Small Business

November 24, 2014 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

In business, sales never come as fast as you want or need them to. You must learn how to weed out unqualified leads, have confidence and remove your fear of selling for good.  But, to do this you must have a sales process. The key lesson I learned is the gap between getting a prospect […]

Filed Under: Customer Service, Grow Your Business Tagged With: Customer Service, sales process, selling cycle, small business sales

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