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Six Sigma For Small Businesses
Six Sigma is a series of systems that focus on implementing quality measurement strategies based on data and statistical analysis to enhance operational performance. In the early days of its introduction, Six Sigma was commonly misconceived to be a big business strategy, applicable only to large corporations. Though no such restriction was ever envisioned in its functional scope, it was rendered this status since only big businesses initially tried and applied the strategies to improvise their business processes (they had the money). However, it has b

me where I need to go and distinguish me from my competitors. The Selling Edge gets me there."

Save Tons of Money by Balancing Your Business Budget Using These Easy Budgeting Steps!
Creating and managing a business budget for any business is the key to a successful business organization. Budgeting is the one of the most effective tool for investing in your business' future. A business budget is a overall plan to:~ manage and control expenses. ~ make certain you have enough funds available for future projects and work. ~ meet objectives. ~ feel confident about financial decisions.The benefit of planning a proper business plan is the power to manage profits more responsibly and securely. A business

After our first half-hour telephone coaching session, when asked what he thought about our training, my client felt the learning process we had undertaken together earlier in the week, “was a bit too elementary.” As a Branch Manager with over 18 years of sale experience, a supervisor who must also produce sales over and above the five representatives reporting to him, when he purchased our training, he thought that he would receive and then drill-for-skill some new and yet undiscovered selling process that would magically change his ability to produce sales. What he actually found was a “deceptively simple” system with methods proven in the field to produce a consistent flow of new business. Later he wrote:

“I was at first, skeptical about your program’s efficacy. However, it turned out to be deceptively simple.

This program (telephone coaching) is set up with simple bite-sized lessons for sales people. Once using it, one discovers the complexity of the sales process and a need for a focused approach. Your weekly telephone coaching does that and re-inspires excitement for the sales process.

I can't say enough about your practical suggestions and flexible approach to an individual's specific situation…”

Another personal coaching client has written:

“…There are some decent selling systems available out there and I have used a few of them. However, most of these selling approaches have too many steps and have too much to remember when you are in the heat of the selling battle.

I mostly have one shot with a veterinarian to convince them to invest $10,000 to $24,000 in new laboratory instruments. I need an easy system to plug into—one that will get me where I need to go and distinguish me from my competitors. The Selling Edge gets me there."

Breaking the Ice and Winning Over the Client!
Wherever you turn these days you’ll find articles covering every business strategy and tactic available to man, from how to make a great presentation to strategies for success all the way to negotiations and prospecting and getting a client to commit. But hardly anyone touches on the subject of breaking the ice with a new client and winning them over.Experts say it takes only three seconds to make a first impression. That doesn’t give you much time to dazzle someone with your professionalism and polish, especially since it’s so difficult to cha

receive and then drill-for-skill some new and yet undiscovered selling process that would magically change his ability to produce sales. What he actually found was a “deceptively simple” system with methods proven in the field to produce a consistent flow of new business. Later he wrote:

“I was at first, skeptical about your program’s efficacy. However, it turned out to be deceptively simple.

I can't say enough about your practical suggestions and flexible approach to an individual's specific situation…”

Another personal coaching client has written:

What Can I Do To Improve My Job-Interviewing Skills?
Whether you’re a student job seeker or a polished and proven executive, the first thing you must come to terms with is, “Regardless of the position you seek, you are now in sales!” The product you are selling is YOU! The interview is your opportunity to differentiate yourself in the eyes of your customer [the interviewer] when compared to your competitors [other job applicants].Successful companies today are focused on building what’s known as, corporate “Unique Value-Add Propositions.” Simply put, a unique value proposition is designed to diff

phone coaching) is set up with simple bite-sized lessons for sales people. Once using it, one discovers the complexity of the sales process and a need for a focused approach. Your weekly telephone coaching does that and re-inspires excitement for the sales process.

I can't say enough about your practical suggestions and flexible approach to an individual's specific situation…”

Another personal coaching client has written:

Kudos in Marketing Postcard
The tight and competitive situation in the market had been an eye opener for business owners to make good on their advertising and promotional strategies. We are all aware that first impression do last - just like with the advertising materials that are handed to us, we judge them by their appearance. Because of this business advertisers were challenged to produce materials that will pass the taste of their clients.It is often said that the materials you provide serves as a mirror or reflection of your business. And since you are aiming to plan

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Yes, You DO Have the Discipline That It Takes
Too hard to start a business, you say? Think again.Does it take sustained effort and discipline to start your own business?Absolutely.Are you capable of exerting yourself that much?Certainly. In fact, you've probably done it lots of times.You remember in school how you had to work for hours, days and even weeks on a single assignment?And for what? A good grade that would contribute to your overall evaluation at the end of the term?That's nice, but has it netted you anything?Maybe you wen

me where I need to go and distinguish me from my competitors. The Selling Edge gets me there."

I have a client in the Northwest, that after five years of working together and after tripling his sales team’s production in the first three years, he decided that my training programs were not complex enough for his staff. For the last two years of our engagement, he tried to have me put into my selling system every new fangled sales technique that he read about in the latest best seller on sales, Over that same period, my goal was to take things out of the selling process that I was teaching, to make my system even more simple and easy for sales and service industry professionals to learn and use daily.

It has been interesting to see if all the complexity that this client brought to his firm’s selling process after my engagement ended, gave him the selling edge that my simple, yet effective system had originally produced. His staff tells me that if anything, they are seeing less success as they try desperately to learn and then implement the latest selling fad that he requires that them to use. The lesson to me is clear, to be consistently successful in selling, you need to keep the selling process as simple as you can.

As my client’s quote above suggests, I now try to keep the selling process that I teach as simple as possible. In my personal coaching sessions on the telephon or in the field ( www.TheSellingEdge.com/personalCoaching.htm ) I now employ a unique self-directed learning series of manuals that, in short daily lessons, outline six “simple” and easy to learn steps that must be executed to consistently produce sales or to achieve higher levels of personal productivity. These self-administered lessons take about 20 minutes each day to read and then drill-for-skill the communication technique being taught--using a programmed learning method built into each lesson. At the end of the week, on the telephone or over an internet voice connection we discuss the principle learned during the last five days and help participants worldwide to see how they can apply the technique(s) outl

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