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This type of marketing is very much like e-bay. Your internet site promotes assorted good and services and in return, you receive a percentage from every sale or lead. It isn’t nearly as much work, very low overheads, it works 24 hours a day, and what’s even better, it’s relatively simple to learn. At the start, you must decide what items or area you wish to specialize in. A method of going about this is, you need to find out solutions to problems a specific group of people are anticipating, and determine a means to address those issues. One of the better ways to determine this is to look for specific highly drilled down words and phrases; there are less searchers for these in general, but they convert far more.
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welcome to todays information packed eddition of health and safety intelligence. Why should you be worried about the word negligence if you own a company? We will not be made responsible for any damages that may be caused by this post in any way. We will now give you an explanation of what it means and what you can do to forbid any untold cases being held against you as an company for being negligent. we can give you a stronger definition of what the serious term means when an negligence case is taken forward against your managers or company. I will likewise point out several useful internet sites where you can get to a greater extent data and advice for particular situations.These are the common defenses disposable to an employer in a case of alleged negligent brought ahead by an employee. The employer can defend his case with the next parameters. In That Respect was no duty of care owed to the employee since the case referred to something that did not take place during the flow of employment. If the incident did not come about while under the time of employment then on that point was no duty of care owed. The loss, wrong or trauma was either none existent or not caused by the breach. If there was no accidental injury, harm or loss cased by the breach you still have a case.The claiment voluntarily accepted the hazard (volenti non fit injuria) or that the example was out of the 3 year time limit. If the individual recognized the risks or perhaps the case is brought up out of time. If the claimant does not bring up the case within three years or they acknowledged the risk when the incident happened. Nice health and safety websites here.
I have found that the best sales people are the best listeners, not the ones that talk your ear off. Listening is a skill that much more than just hearing the words coming out of their mouth. Here are some tips that you can use to see how well you actually listen.
Maintain eye contact
This is more than just starring at them to appear to be interested. It also helps you concentrate on what they have to say.
Ask relevant questions
Don’t assume that you understand where they are coming from. Be sure to ask a follow up question and rephrase or restate what they have said. This not only keeps you in the conversation but it also lets them know you truly understand what they said.
Avoid distractions
You want to control the setting as much as possible. If the sun is in your eyes, move your seat. If you are outside take off your sunglasses. If you are in a room make sure it is as quite as possible and don’t forget to turn off your cell phone. If you are expecting a more important call let them know before hand. It will go a long way on keeping you looking professional. The more comfortable the both of you are the easier it will be to communicate.
Take notes
Unless you have a photographic memory, carry a pad and pen with you wherever you go. Make sure don’t spend the entire conversation looking down at your notes. It’s important to write and look them in the eye at the same time it will give them a sense of importance and help break down the barriers between you. Create a short hand if you need to.
Multitasking is a No, No
In the back of your mind you may think you are saving time but you are making them feel neglected and their confidence in you will be shot. Taking the time to stop what you are doing will pay bigger dividends in the long run to pay attention in the short run.
Are you really listening to them?
Resist the urge to talk about yourself. This is your opportunity to stand out from everyone else and learn what it is that your clients/prospects really want. Take the opportunity to learn about their family, hobbies, favorite sports teams etc. This bonding time will make a big difference if it is between you and someone else.
A final tip is to ask someone close to you to rate your listening skills. Listen carefully to what they say - you might be surprised at what you hear!
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There’s no time like the present, right?
Unfortunately, most of us don’t appreciate the wisdom in this saying. Our mantra might read: Don’t do anything today that you can put off until tomorrow!
There’s a trick to getting all we can; it’s giving all we can to the here and now.
Whenever you have an inspiration, do something right away, no matter how modest or small to fulfill the promise of it.
For example, I know a number of writers who are periodically afflicted with “writer’s block.” For some reason, they’ve lost the will to compose.
In some cases, they’re pre-judging the quality of what they expect will issue from their pens and keyboards. “This’ll just be junk, so why bother?” is their attitude.
The problem is that this thought becomes the result of their inspiration, and not any tangible, written product. If they’d force themselves to write something, anything, immediately after being stimulated, they’d start to chip away at their blockages.
They’d be so busy working that they’d eliminate any possibility of worrying about the quality of the product that will come out. Then, having something accomplished, they could add to it, refining it later.
But they’d feel better, because they seized the moment. After doing this repeatedly, they’d form a new, productive work habit that would continue to serve them.
The same thing applies to selling and to any activity with which we procrastinate. Doing anything, no matter how seemingly insignificant breaks the inertia in which we’ve been stuck.
And, as any writer can attest, by forcing ourselves to do it now, we sometimes surprise everyone with our accomplishments, including the toughest critics of allourselves.
Dr. Gary S. Goodman, President of Customersatisfaction.com, is a popular keynote speaker, management consultant, and seminar leader and the best-selling author of 12 books, including Reach Out & Sell Someone® and Monitoring, Measuring & Managing Customer Service. He is a frequent guest on radio and television, worldwide. A Ph.D. from USC’s Annenberg School, Gary offers programs through UCLA Extension and numerous universities, trade associations, and other organizations in the United States and abroad. He is headquartered in Glendale, California, and he can be reached at (818) 243-7338 or at: gary@customersatisfaction.com.
Ok, let’s start your day as a new ISP.
As I have said before, I teach two main ways to build your
business. Either banging on doors of local businesses or calling
local businesses on the phone.
We will talk about networking with non-business contacts later.
So go to your kitchen and get the yellow pages out of the drawer
under the telephone.
I have made calls to all types of businesses to sell website
services and I have not noticed a big difference between them.
So start with a category that you feel comfortable with. I do
have a strong preference for “Mom and Pop” businesses. Lets
leave the big chains for later.
Get your pen ready and pick up the telephone. We are ready to
make our first call of the day. SMILE and have your favorite
beverage ready.
SECRET REVEALED HERE:
The tone of your voice and your attitude is everything.
Everything! I have made tens of thousands of telephone
presentations and I know what I am talking about.
If you have the right attitude people cannot say no to you. It
is spooky almost, but it is true.
When I worked in telephone marketing rooms with other
salespeople, they would laugh at me because I always started
with a very enthusiastic “Hi!”
But almost always I outsold the previous top salesperson by
twice as much.
Refer back to secret 3 when I made 20 sales in less than 30
minutes. When I was focused with the correct attitude people
could not say no to me.
I was not able to have this 100% of the time. I am not sure that
would be possible. But I had reached a point of a steady 31%
closing ratio 100% of the time.
So when I say SMILE I am not kidding!
So lets pick up the phone.
Ring. Ring. Answer: Maisy Flowers, how may I help you?
You: Sure! Could you please tell me who is in charge or your
website?
Answer: We do not have a website.
You: Ok. If you did have a website, do you know who would be in
charge of that? Answer: Charles takes care of those type of
things, do you want to speak with him?
You: Yes please, thank you very much!
Charles: What can I help you with?
You: Hi Charles. I understand if your company had a website you
would be in charge of it.
Charles: Yes that is probably the case.
You: I am a local Internet Service Provider. We provide websites
with a control panel that allows you to have easy access to all
services you need.
I will even provide a custom website at no extra cost to you and
maintain it. I want to be your company webmaster, but instead of
charging $5000 to $20,000 you can hire me including your hosting
for only $50.00 per month.
I would like to show you the control panel you have included
with your website now, is that ok?
Charles: How do we do that?
You: Pretty simply actually. Do you have a connection to the
internet at this time?
Charles: Yes we are on AOL.
You: Great that will work. I will set up a website for you.
If you decide you want to go with our service, we will hook it
up to your own domain name instead, such as MaisyFlowers.com, if
it is available. Do you have a preferred password to use for
your test site?
Charles: Maisy will work.
You: Lets make it maisy787 just to be a bit safer. I am setting
this up for you right now, can you give me about 3 minutes to
show you how to use this?
Charles: Sure.
You: Can you log onto the internet while I talk to you Charles?
Charles: Yes.
You: Great, once you get online open a web browser, and type in
this address:
Charles: Ok I am there.
You: This is where you will be able to see your website as you
build it. If you want to use our services we will get rid of
and put in your domain name for your business instead.
Now let me show you where the control panel actually is, go to:
and type in this username and password, (give him the username
and password you assigned him)
Charles: Ok I see some graphics.
You: Correct. This is what we call the Dedicated Server Manager
or DSM Control Panel.
The email option will not work until we hook up your domain
name, but you can try setting one up just to see how it works. I
am going to walk you thru some of the features.
(At this point show them features, but pay attention to what
they are saying. Not everyone will be interested in the same
features. Listen. Listen. Listen. Listen. Listen. )
You: Ok Charles I am going to let you play with this. What I
would like to do next is to come in and show you some designs I
have that we can setup for your business.
Remember, I am willing to host your website with 100 megs of
space, your domain name, all the features you see on that DSM
control panel, and I will customize a website for your business
and maintain it for only $50 per month.
May I come into see you on Tuesday to see if you have any more
questions?
Charles: Tuesday is fine. How about 9 AM before everyone shows
up?
You: I will be there. Thank you Charles, here is my phone number
if you need me, and you can see my company website at
http://yourISPwebsite
Charles: Great. I will talk to you later. You: Thank you
Charles, have a nice day.
The other variation to this conversation is if they already have
a website. But you still offer to show them the control panel so
they can see how many more features you have to offer.
You may even suggest some of the free software that they can
install from the DSM Control Panel
When you meet with Charles on Tuesday, show them some templates
you can offer them from the EasySite template directory, review
any questions he may have then ask if they want to sign you on
as their personal ISP. If they say yes, get a check.
You can also preprint some of the templates you think they may
like.
Be sure you have read the magic of numbers in secret #3 You will
probably have to talk to 10 Charles type people to get 1 sale in
the beginning.
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and Found Passion for Life” by going to http://salessuccessmagazin
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This time it was Tom Hanks’ turn.
Bravo hosts a show called “Inside the Actor’s Studio,” which
each week features an interview with a well known actor. No, you
won’t see the latest dirt hovering around their sexual life, or
hear about their fight with the director. Instead you’ll learn
their insights on the craft of acting.
The Audience consists of students — future writers, actors and
directors — currently enrolled in the Masters Program at the
New School in New York City.
You can watch the show a hundred times with a hundred different
actors. When asked by the moderator “What is the one piece of
advice you can give to our students here?, they all say the same
thing. “Listen.”
Listening is the key to success for the actor, the director, the
writer.
Listening, too, is the key to success for the marketer.
Listening is the key to success for the human being.
“You convert yourself from a person who is pretending,” Actor
Hanks said “to a person who honestly is.” Doesn’t this remark
apply to all areas of life?
What exactly is listening? Is it a function of the ears? How
many times have you had to ask “What did you say?” to someone
after the sound waves left their mouth, swept across the room or
telephone and pounded on your eardrums? Isn’t listening the
function of the mind?
The actors will tell you that when they listen with their minds,
they’ll respond in a different and spontaneous way to the other
actors lines even though they already know what those lines will
be! Listening involves taking in the face, the body, the
environment of the other person. Yes, it includes “listening” to
body language.
More than one actor on the program like to tell stories about
Jack Nicholson, a master at inducing spontaneity in his
co-workers. No scene is ever played the same twice — even
though his lines remain word for word.
Shirley MacLaine told about a scene in “Terms of Endearment”
where Jack plays her neighbor. She knocks on his door; he opens
it. Simple enough. But everytime she knocked, Jack would make
sure that something unexpected would happen. One time he opened
the door with a woman hanging onto his shoulder.
Directors need to listen (and that includes watching) their
actors. They need to be attentive to everything happening on the
set. They need to know when something is right and works and
when something goes wrong. They need to listen to their
photographer, their lighting people, their crew. Good directors
sprouts eyes and ears in every part of their body.
Writers couldn’t write without listening — listening to the way
people talk, the language they use, their gestures, movement.
All that is a part of listening.
What about the marketer? You’ve already heard, I’m sure, that
you need to fill your customer’s needs. How can you do that
unless you listen to them?
“The most important secret of salesmanship is to find out what
the other fellow wants, then help him find the best way to get
it.” Frank Bettger said in his classic book, “How I Raised
Myself From Failure to Success in Selling.”
Listening is the key to being a successful person. People like
to talk about themselves, but they want someone to hear them.
All creative people, all successful people listen, also, to
their inner voice. It’s the inner voice that takes the
cumulative effect of all that outer lifetime of listening, makes
sense of it and tells them how to respond, what action to take.
Doesn’t it seem reasonable that if you put your attention on
others, help them fulfill their needs that your inner voice will
be prepared to fulfill your own?
Here’s a few things you can do to improve your listening skills.
1. Close your eyes. Spend a few quiet moments just being with
yourself. It’s a good idea to do this before you start any new
task for the day, before you make a phone call, send an email,
or write an ad.
2. Each time you pick up the phone, whether to answer it or make
a call, remind yourself to stop and listen to the other person.
3. After contact with another person, write down all the things
they said to you. Were you really listening, or were you waiting
for a break in the conversation so that you could speak? Do you
find you weren’t sure what they said? You will probably start
writing reams as you practice the art of listening.
4. After you’ve met a person face to face, write down what you
remembered about them, their behavior, what they wore, how their
facial expressions changed, their body language.
Before long, you will develop a lifelong habit of listening that
will win you friends, enhance your enjoyment your enjoyment of
life and, need it be mentioned, fatten your wallet.
You’ll no longer have to remind yourself to:
“Shhhhh. Listen!”
