Sales
Small Business Takeaways from 3.5 Million Dollar Super Bowl Ad Mistakes
Feb 6th, 2012 | By Stacey Hylen | Category: Lead Story, Marketing, Mindset, Sales, Strategic PlanningEach year the buildup to the Super Bowl and the ads is bigger and bigger. Companies pay $3.5 million and up for a 30-second spot plus the cost of producing the commercial. But for the small business owner with a much smaller marketing budget, there are a few things to learn from these ads, what [...]
10 Follow Up Mistakes that are Costing you Sales
Sep 1st, 2011 | By Stacey Hylen | Category: CRM, Direct Mail, Internet Marketing, Lead Story, Marketing, Mindset, Online Marketing, Sales, Strategic PlanningYou want to grow your company, you want more clients and more sales, but chances are you suck at follow-up. You’re not the only one. 95% of the businesses I work with have little to no follow-up systems in place and often, if they do have some semblance of a system, they fail to implement. [...]
There’s Gold in Them Thar Clients
May 20th, 2011 | By Stacey Hylen | Category: Lead Story, Marketing, SalesMost business owners focus on getting more clients, yet one of the fastest and most inexpensive ways to increase sales is to leverage what you already have in your business, your own client list. In most cases, when I do this process with my clients they find that, “there’s gold in them thar clients” that [...]
How to Tap into Emotion and Get your Prospects to Buy
Apr 14th, 2011 | By Stacey Hylen | Category: B2B Marketing, B2B Sales, Lead Story, Marketing, Online Marketing, SalesBuying is not just a based on logic. 65% of the buying decision is based on emotion, how your prospect feels. You may understand why a prospect should buy based on the facts, but do you know why they should buy from you emotionally? It is important not just to know it but to be [...]
Are You Making it Easy for Your Clients to do Business with You?
Dec 28th, 2009 | By Stacey Hylen | Category: Lead Story, Sales, Strategic Planning, SystemsDig deep. Walk a mile in your client’s shoes and see how easy you make it to do business with your company.
Are You Guilty of Not Following Up?
Dec 18th, 2009 | By Stacey Hylen | Category: Lead Story, Marketing, SalesYou can make more sales using just by implementing one key part of your marketing and sales process more effectively, follow up.
Are You Justifying Yourself? Value vs. Price
Dec 2nd, 2009 | By Stacey Hylen | Category: Lead Story, Marketing, Mindset, SalesDo you sell your company’s value to your clients or are you trying to justify your price? To justify is to defend or uphold as warranted or well-grounded. This puts you in a very defensive and perhaps adversarial relationship with your clients or potential clients. Many clients I coach have been justifying their prices when [...]




