How To Sell Authentically Using Social Media

There is an art to using social media effectively without being offensive in your efforts to find new customers and sell more of your products and services.  I recently hired a friend of mine, Kerianne Mellott of www.MarketingMakesMeSmile.com to help clear the cloud of confusion about social media marketing. I know what to do once [...]

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Sell More Easily When You Share Your Truth

Selling is always about the customer. Your job is to help them get to know you, to see if they can trust you, and understand how you can help solve their problem or enhance their life by using your product or service. One way to turn on the rocket boosters and increase your sales is [...]

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The HeART of Selling

The reason most people, especially women, despise selling or avoid it, is because we have been taught that in order to “get” someone to buy or make a purchase means we need to manipulate them into doing it. I thought that too when I worked for corporate America.

I found another way to do it that was much more soul-satisfying. Selling matters because it is the lifeblood of our businesses. If we don’t sell, meaning exchange goods and services for money, then we are either running a charity or won’t be around for long.

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Accomplish More in Two Easy Steps!

Ever worked for a really bad manager or someone who was out to get you?! I did. What I learned from the experience taught me a new skill that has helped me to increase my productivity immensely! I would never give him credit for it because he doesn’t deserve it, but his management style of trying to make me feel inferior birthed a system that I still use today.

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