Articles under ‘Starting Selling’

Its no longer good enough to have a niche…

….You need a micro niche. Because of the impact of the internet and social media, niches are not what they used to be! At a click of a mouse you can easily find 10 or more businesses just as good as you seemingly doing the same thing. Tell me about it!!!
One of the most important [...]

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What’s the story?

I always love to hear my client’s stories. A typical one is ‘talented and successful person leaves corporate life in search of freedom and financial success but hates selling and is finding the dream is starting to turn into a nightmare. They have the freedom but the struggle with not earning enough money and all [...]

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Book review: 5 sales lessons from Lord Alan Sugar

Over Christmas and the New Year I chose the book ‘What you see is what you get’ by Alan Sugar as the first book to read on my new Amazon Kindle tablet. In this review I would like to focus on why I think this is an excellent book for people new to sales and [...]

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Networking tip #5 – Don’t talk about your products and services…

This is the final networking tip in my series of 5 counter intuitive networking tips. You will be be pleased to know I have saved the most counter intuitive until last!
I can hear you thinking ‘But hang on Richard, the whole point of me networking is to talk about my products and services….have you lost [...]

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