Author: Mike Brooks

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Smart Use of Social Media in Selling

Social media has changed our lives in many ways, and it's changed the way we make buying decisions as well.  If you're like most people today, you probably search several sites, read reviews, look for deals and coupons and then…

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3 Proven Secrets of Top Producers for Setting Qualified Appointments

Follow these three proven secrets of top producers and your appointment rate will increase as well as your qualified appointment ratio!  This article is too short to script all these things out for you, but don't worry I'm not going…

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Do You Know the Secret to Being Happy and Successful?

If you find that you are struggling to achieve a certain result - whether it's earn more money, get in better shape, improve a relationship, etc., then before you wait to be successful at it, why not start with the…

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The Best Way to Handle An Email Brush Off

How do you currently handle the brush off, "Just email me - or send - me your information"? Believe it or not, about 80% of sales teams I speak with actually shoot off an email, schedule a follow up call,…

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Generate Positive Results by Using This Simple Tool for Success

Hey, sales - and life - isn't always going to go your way. But when you can stop and appreciate how incredibly fortunate and blessed you already are, and get restored to what your true purpose is, you'll find that…

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Three Rules to Effective Up Sells

The up sell is one of the easiest and most important parts of your presentation to script out. So many sales reps (like 80% of them), ad lib the up sell (whenever they think about it at all), and because…

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Three Tips For Successful Sales Management

Sales management is actually real easy and straight forward if you break it down to its three most important elements. If you concentrate on these three keys and actually make it a priority to implement them, your job will get…

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Four Techniques to Climb Out of That Sales Slump!

What you can't fall victim to is negative thinking. That only leads to deflated attitudes, less activity, and poor sales skills. It tends to feed itself and you start looking for reasons to fail, and you often find them!  You…

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What’s the Most Important Thing a Sales Manager Can Do to Drive Business?

If you want to improve the sales performance of your sales team, then you need to stay focused on and monitor what is driving those results - what your reps are saying and doing during their qualifying and closing presentations.…

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Recording Your Sales Calls Can Improve Performance

How much, and how fast, would you improve if you could critique and correct how you handle the brush offs you get, the stalls you have to deal with when getting back with prospects, the objections you get when you…

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Stop Worrying About NOT Making Enough Sales

There is a better way.  What all top producers do is have an unyielding faith that things are going to work out as long as they keep taking action, change their actions as their results dictate, and most of all,…

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What Does the Invisible Dollar Sign Above Your Head Say About You?

While 90% of sales reps tend to remain stuck working within and producing up to (or more likely down to) their invisible dollar sign, the good news is that about 10% of sales reps find ways to raise the number…