How Not to Approach Direct Sales
Direct selling is like cold calling except that you have to look the person in the eyes and tell them that you are interrupting their day to sell them the coolest new item. This item is going to change their life and make a lot of things better, or maybe it won’t. You do at [...]
Running a Bed and Breakfast
I have recently started to take an interest in running a bed and breakfast. I think that it would be fun to get the chance to host travelers on a regular basis. Since I can’t travel myself all of the time, this would be a way that I could hear travel stories and meet foreigners [...]
Expanding Our Computer Store Offerings
Though our computer store has been the leader in the area for computer sales, it doesn’t mean that we should rest on our laurels. When we unseated one of our competitors from being the leader in the area, we knew that it could happen to us as well – so we needed to make [...]
Increasing Our Pawn Shop Revenue
One of the biggest lessons that I learned about being a pawn shop owner is that I need to make sure that I am selling the items that people bring into the store as quickly as possible. Unfortunately our store is only so big, and if we didn’t sell everything as quickly as possible, [...]
Disability insurance companies are there for your practice
One of the most amazing statistical trends I’ve noticed over the years of being a dentist is the relatively slow, albeit steady rise of dentist disability insurance premiums. Don’t get me wrong, relative to other insurance coverage, what we have to pay is a pittance.
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The best thing for our practices is that [...]
Pawn Shops and Your EBay Business
Do you have an eBay storefront? If so then you may want to start thinking about getting comfortable with the use of pawn shops to help you make more profits from your eBay store.
The idea behind this plan is to do some research into what sells best through your eBay store. Then you can find [...]
Business Turn-offs
As a customer, there are a few things that will immediately turn me off to a business and make me unlikely to buy anything from them. I try to avoid these things in my own work.
Business turn-offs for me include:
Bad customer service. This is the number one business turn-off for me. If I experience rude [...]
How we Became Profitable
I’ve been involved in our company’s current telesales outsourcing initiative the last couple of months. We’ve dealt with many different professionals in various fields, but the one that intrigued me most was the telemarketing consultant I met earlier this year. I was amazed at the interesting tips he had about running our business, and could [...]
Making Your Mark in Ecommerce
Commerce generally refers to the exchange of goods or services between individuals or between a business and an individual. E-commerce refers to a business process that takes place electronically, over the internet. Ecommerce involves promoting and selling a product receiving and accepting orders then dealing with payment processing, packaging and postage. If you want to [...]
Loyalty Programs
There are two goals for customer loyalty programs. One is to track and monitor customer spending habits. This data can be used to make positive changes and influence future products or services. The second is to achieve and maintain customer loyalty. Gaining loyalty is one of the best ways to increase a company’s number of [...]
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