Internet Psychologist
By Mike Yates In Part 1 we identified that one of the key areas to help you become outstanding in sales is the ability to ask outstanding questions. To be more specific: how you develop your meetings with prospective clients. Do you rehearse your meetings in advance? Do you practice …
By Mike Yates As you may be aware, one of the keys to success in sales is to build trust with your prospects and clients. The best way of building trust is by listening to people talk about their problems and their needs. The only sure fire way to do …
By Mike Yates I was reading an article recently about Tiger Woods who many people consider to be at the top of his game. A remarkable fact about him, however, is that he has a coach (he has always had one). He is taking constructive feedback from a golfer and …
By Mike Yates We all know that if a client refers us to one of his associates or friends, we have a much higher probability of making a sale and doing business with that referral than if we had no introduction. In fact, it is up to 10 times easier …
By Mike Yates Embrace the objections of your prospects and customersRight now and over the next few weeks, consider the regular objections you get from prospects as a positive step as well as an inevitable way to generate increased business. Objections confirm a certain level of desire for your product …
By Will Kintish The daddy of modern day networking is a pioneer called Dr Ivan Misner. He came up with the idea of breakfast networking clubs and his is still the biggest –BNI (Business networking International). He says unless you know who you want to know very few people can …
By Will Kintish Admission timeI have been thinking for the last 3-4 years, ‘Social networking is for the kids’. When it comes to business I have been constantly sceptical about web 2.0 in spite of being signed up to Facebook, Ecademy, Plaxo, You Tube and My Space. Being heavily involved …
By Will Kintish We start out in life knowing no-one. Shortly most of us get to know members of our family, then we go to primary and high school then for some it’s off to college and university. Along the way we join clubs, teams and associations. We may attend …
Susan Boyle is now in The Priory, a private clinic renowned for treating celebrities with mental health issues, following reported exhaustion after appearing in the Britain’s Got Talent final on Saturday night. Clearly it has been a traumatic few weeks for her. But the issue that few people are prepared …
Newspaper readers are often enticed by advertising offers which give them savings – “half price”, “two for one” and so on. Many advertisers now add their web site details to the advert. But they may as well not bother. Take adverts in yesterday’s “The Times”. Tesco was advertising “Joint Savings” …
The people you knew online seven years ago are a different bunch to the group you now spend most of your time with. That’s the conclusion from an interesting research study conducted in Holland which showed that you lose about half your contacts from your social network every seven years. …
People who use social networks are set for a major disagreement with their bosses at work. Research published by eMarketer shows that most people reckon their employers should keep their hands off social networking activities. It’s obvious that people are making a mental distinction between work and social networking – …
Bloggers the world over are sitting in front of their computers at this very moment trying to write something. As you read this, someone, somewhere else in the world is struggling to write something. Why? Because someone, somewhere has told them that blogging is good for them. Stuck for …
People will not pay for the services you provide online. That’s the stark conclusion you could draw from a new survey which looked at whether or not people would subscribe to popular Internet services, such as YouTube, Wikipedia or the BBC iPlayer. The survey found that the vast majority of …
Employees who are disillusioned with a company will usually plan their exit pretty soon after their negative thoughts and feelings arise. We’ve all been there haven’t we? We started a new job full of hope and enthusiasm, but after a while the positive feelings decline and we find the company …