This week on #Smallbizchat LIVE, our show featured three guests: Online Marketing Secrets with Neil Patel @neilpatel, How to Use a Book to Promote Your Business with Stephanie Chandler, @Steph__Chandler, and How to Drive Retail Sales with Romina Brown, @ssiconsults. I pulled three of the best questions from each of them to share with you. […]
Use an Ecommerce Website Builder with Your Facebook Store
In my last post, I made a case for selling your products through your own Facebook store (“How to Sell on Facebook Free: Set Up Your Own Shop”). It’s fast, it’s easy, it’s free and gives you access to one of the world’s biggest marketplaces. All these things still hold true. However, if you want […]
How to Build an Ecommerce Sales Funnel
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 John Lawson @colderice. John is the CEO at Colder Ice Media. He is an international keynote speaker and “Commerce evangelist” and […]
Who’s on #Smallbizchat June 2018
#Smallbizchat is a weekly conversation 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 on Twitter every Wednesday 8-9 pm ET. Here’s how: follow @SmallBizChat on Twitter and follow the hashtag #Smallbizchat and click here for directions […]
How to Hire Your First Salesperson
Sales is the fuel of a business. If you are the only person who is thinking about how your business makes money, you are in trouble. It’s one thing to have product or service, but you must have an organized way to generate leads, follow-up on them, close business and manage the relationship after the […]
The Lost Art of the Cold Call
Guest Article The Blue Devils were down. Duke would either advance to the Final Four or get washed out of March Madness. With less than a minute to go, they hit a three-point shot and were up again. The crowd went crazy. Stephanie Cole and her husband Dave were at home on the edge of […]
Sales Strategies for Small Business: Interview with Jill Konrath
This is excerpted from my #SmallBizChat interview with Jill Konrath @JillKonrath. Jill is defined by her relentless search for fresh sales strategies that actually work in today’s business environment. She’s the author of two bestselling sales books Selling to Big Companies and Snap Selling and is a popular speaker who helps sellers crack into new accounts, speed up their sales cycles and win more business.
Avoid the 5 “Sales Readiness” Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make … And Don’t Even Know It
Guest Post Many small business owners struggle with generating more leads or learning to improve the sales processes in their business, or even to hire and train the right sales people. However, before the conversation for how to improve a sales process can even make a difference, many business owners need to learn how avoid […]
How To Move Your Sales Forward With 95% Success
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 James Muir. James is the author of The Perfect Close: The Secret to Closing Sales – The Best Selling Practices […]
25 Ways to Mine New Prospects for Your Small Business
We are all really in sales, no matter what we do. Selling has always been about communication and education. 21st century salesmanship leads with building the trust and respect of “who is selling” to us, rather than what they are selling. Respecting the intelligence of the consumer in the sales is an essential and smart […]