How to Increase Sales Without Spending a Penny More on Advertising

Wouldn’t it be grand to have customers walk through your door, ready to buy and you don’t need  to say a word? Well, I don’t believe in fantasies, but I can guarantee that you will close more sales when you know these two things about your customers:

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Making Sales = Helping

1.  What products they need and why. (Your niche market)

2. What specific problems they have that you can solve.

Here’s what doesn’t produce sales: Selling to everyone. To make sales you need to find the people with the problems your product can solve and then get to know them — how they think, what they care about, and what makes them happy, sad or frustrated. Targeted, quality customers are worth finding if you want to increase your sales without increasing costs.

So tell me, how well do you know your customers?  Do you know what your customers worry about? Can you guess their thoughts, feel what they feel, and  imagine what  keeps them up at night?

If you haven’t thought about it, then think again. The ability to anticipate needs is at the core of selling for all types of businesses, and especially if a website is the hub of your business.  Your “web-store” needs to send out specific, clear offers to the people you want to attract and invite to buy.

With e-commerce it’s not enough to simply put up a website and tell people what’s for sale. They need to be invited in with offers, questions, or gifts that push their “want” buttons. Your product descriptions need to offer an enticing solution for your customers — whether you’re a lemonade stand or a Fortune 500 company.

If you don’t know what your customers want, then how do you connect with them?  And if you don’t know what their problems are, then how do you sell them what they need?  My point is, you won’t make sales if you don’t target the people who want what you’re selling. That can be a difficult thing to figure out, but it’s worth the time and effort.

Why so much emphasis on identifying a group of customers with specific needs? Because if you don’t, you’ll spend most of your time “sorting” eager customers from merely interested ones. The first type are ready to buy your products. The second type are just curious and won’t buy. So why waste your time? You can’t help everybody, (the ones who are merely interested) so why not focus on the people who actually need your products and are ready to buy?

My Free Report is designed to help you to do exactly that. So look on my home page at www.RightMindMarketing.com and get your free “Sales Action Guide” by filling in the opt in form (No sharing of course!) so you can begin using effective, selling techniques in your own business. No gimmicks or yukky stuff. I promise.

Selling can actually be a lot of fun when it’s about identifying exactly what people need, and then providing a product that’s the perfect solution.

The better you know your customers, the easier it is to sell them what they need most. More on that in my next post!

Betsy

Betsy Shulman
646 306 4721 cell
www.Rightmindmarketing.com

P.S.- If you want to get some help right now, call me for a Free “Selling Makeover Session” and we can talk about your business for 20-30 minutes. You can choose a time for us to connect by going to this link https://my.timedriver.com/CM1LC  and I’ll give you a call back to see how I can help make changes to your business that will increase your sales.

 

 How to Increase Sales Without Spending a Penny More on Advertising

How to Enjoy Selling (Even If You Hate It Now!)

 

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You can do it!

“Enjoy Selling?” Most people would say that’s a contradiction in terms. In fact, for most people, selling is a necessary evil needed to bridge the chasm between the products their business offers, and the customers who want to buy them.

I’ll bet you wish you knew how to get your products seen by people who could really benefit from them…. Maybe you even know of similar products that are selling like hotcakes, but yours are not.

You may have tried using social media or other online sales venues with no results – except for a big headache! Or worse, you paid someone else a lot of money to market your products for you, but they didn’t produce the returns you’d hoped for.

I know how frustrating it can be, and it becomes tempting to just throw ideas out there, hoping something will stick, (Also known as “hit-or-miss” marketing.) which can get very expensive.

Geez, no wonder marketing and sales leave a bitter taste in mouth of the average business owner. Besides, who can afford to advertise when you have bills to pay, and you don’t even know if you’ll get results. It’s at this point that most businesses cut their losses and simply give up….

But what if I told you that there’s another approach to selling that could change all of that? It lets you increase your Income — AND turn around your attitude about selling, AND it’s very simple. It makes what seems frustrating and confusing almost common sense.

Here’s how (In 3 easy steps) -

1. Keep it simple! Selling doesn’t need to be complicated or difficult. In fact, the simpler you keep it, the better it works. So you can skip the fancy marketing plan, flashy website, and slick sales pitch. Forget the full-page ads. Instead start to think of selling as a series of steps to educate your potential customers until they are ready to buy your products.

2. Educated customers are eager customers. Selling is actually a set of steps that you can orchestrate. What you’re actually doing is helping your potential customers make an educated decision. The more a customer knows about you and your products, the more likely they are to buy from you. Buying is a choice, so help your customers make the choice that’s right for them.

3. It’s easy to sell a valuable solution. When customers believe your product is “just what they need,” the sale is a “no brainer.” It’s the smart business owner who takes time to find out who needs what they sell. When you know who has the problems your products solve, then you can focus on marketing to that one niche market.

When you sell valuable products to eager customers in a niche market, suddenly selling becomes a pleasure. That’s why I use the Value Marketing approach to sales. It switches your focus from “What can I sell?” to “Who can I help?”

The more people you help, the more sales you make and the more money you put in the bank. Now that sounds pretty enjoyable, doesn’t it?

So, if you’re ready to start making sales, and feel good about doing it, I’d like to offer you a Free 20-minute phone session to hear about your business and help you get past your selling obstacles. I’ll help you identify three things you need to change to get moving again, and how to fix the roadblocks in your way.

So sign up for your free consultation, visit my coaching schedule and put your name and number in a time slot so I can call you back. There’s no obligation. My goal is to help you to make a real breakthrough with your business in just one conversation.

Meanwhile, if you’d like to read more about how Value Marketing can help you to increase sales, pick up a copy of my Free Report “3 Simple Ways to Increase Sales,” visit my home page and fill out the form in the right column.

I look forward to talking with you soon!

Betsy

Betsy Shulman
646 306 4721 Cell EST

Betsy@RightMindMarketing.com

 How to Enjoy Selling (Even If You Hate It Now!)