Sales & Marketing:

Without a sales plan, your business will not grow. Here are a couple of articles to typical sales & marketing for your business. For 100's more articles on marketing your business, visit our Marketing Tips Centre.

Marketing Your Home Business on a Tight Budget
Author: Timothy Spaulding -

Starting a home business can be an exciting and frightening prospect. In order to make your home based business go you must market it. And this can be done on a limited budget [ Sept 20, 2005 ]

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7 Tips for Growing Your Business You Do Not Want to Ignore:
by Kay Graham-Gilbert

Growing companies must always be ready for the next challenge. If you fail in meeting critical business challenges you will not grow. Challenges often require some type of breakthrough. But do not be misled. A business breakthrough does not have to be something no one has thought of – it just needs to be a solution to your problem that you can act on now.

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10 Ways To Improve Your Sales
by Robert Kempster

1.Determine your current situation. How are you currently positioned in the market? How do you compare to the competition? Where would you like to be in a Year or in five years and how would you like to get there? Or more appropriately how can you get there, as it is not always the way that you want that works. Planning requires that you understand how you currently stand.

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Grow your business by adding sticking power to your resolutions
by Al Hanzal

If you are like me, a new year brings dreams of a fresh start for your small business. Hopes abound for the new year. But, in the back of your mind, you may remember your past resolutions. Resolutions that were swallowed up in the bus-i-ness of daily life. By February, you have already moved on, with January’s resolutions only a vague memory.

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How to Size an Emerging Market
by Dave Lavinsky

In developing their business plans, companies of all sizes face the challenge of determining the size of their markets. To begin, companies must present the size of their “relevant market” in their plans. The relevant market equals the company's sales if it were to capture 100% of its specific niche of the market.

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What's Your Client's Style?
by Susan Cullen

When it comes to effective selling, one simple fact never changes: Selling is a relationship business. You already know all about your company’s products and services – and you’ve learned the fundamental aspects of the sales cycle.