Referencing his experience helping start-ups, SMEs and beyond, Steve Bent from unrivalled talks about boosting sales. In this installment he tackles the basics of sales process: meaurement.
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Boosting sales: Things my new clients say to me
Posted in Advice for your business, Life as an SME, Random thoughts, Sales and Marketing, Successful entrepreneurs, tagged advice, business advisers, business start up, expert advice, practical business advice, sales, selling, SME, start-up, success, training, what business startups need to know on 14 October, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Your new business is exciting isn’t it!? DON’T talk about it! (Pt 2)
Posted in Advice for your business, Life as an SME, Random thoughts, Sales and Marketing, tagged expert advice, practical business advice, sales, selling, SME, starting a business, success, training, what business startups need to know on 17 August, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Following his introduction about why you shouldn’t talk about your business, Steve Bent delves further as well as offering some practical advice about how to talk about your new venture.
Your new business is exciting isn’t it!? DON’T talk about it!
Posted in Advice for your business, Random thoughts, Sales and Marketing, tagged advice, practical business advice, sales, success, training, what business startups need to know on 12 August, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Steve Bent from Unrivalled Consulting shares his thoughts on why you SHOULDN’T talk about your business – if you want to sell that is!
Skills and the downturn
Posted in inside business support, Life as an SME, tagged credit crunch, skills, training on 27 November, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At the recent SWERDA annual general meeting, the great and the good from regional government and business agreed that investing in skills is the way to survive and thrive through the credit crunch. Eminent panel members made a passionate and persuasive case for continued investment in skills by employers and local government. The gist of [...]
Sales: the honourable profession
Posted in Advice for your business, Life as an SME, Marketing, tagged performance, sales, training on 7 February, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Mention that you are involved in ‘sales’ and some people will immediately put you in a ‘mental box’ along with oily double-glazing geezers, dodgy timeshare operators and pyramid scheme shysters. But, unless you are giving away your products and services FOC, someone has got to sell them. If you are proud of the business you [...]
