Business Development

Setting targets will increase sales

Caroline Thomas will help you to increase sales by providing sales and marketing strategies and social media marketing solutions  – to find out more or to book an appointment, please call 0844 556 5116 or email [email protected] – Caroline is also easily found on Twitterand Facebook. Caroline on Google +     Image: jscreationzs / FreeDigitalPhotos.net]]>

Guest post: Using NLP to increase sales

NLP can help achieve this but if it is used to trick people it will backfire. NLP is often described as the programming language of the brain. The NLP ‘fast phobia cure’ brought about a revolution in the psychiatric world, because phobias were thought to be almost incurable.  NLP has fixed phobias in under 10 minutes! The ability Guest post: Using NLP to increase sales

4 ways to achieve targets near month end

Two more days until month end – have you achieved your Feb targets yet?   How has February been for you so far? Did you have a bumper Valentine’s Day? Have the half-term holidays helped to boost trade? We’ve got just two days to go until the end of February, have you achieved your target 4 ways to achieve targets near month end

What are QR codes?

What are QR codes and why should you use them? The big square box above is a QR code (QR stands for Quick Response)  Why would I have generated this box? What is it’s purpose? More and more people are using mobile phones to access the internet, and it can take a while to type What are QR codes?

3 ways to work smarter not harder to increase sales

Not enough time to do everything you want? It’s so easy to get tied up in the everyday running of your business, and therefore lose focus on where your business is going, where you want it to be and how you will increase sales. That’s why I think folks should take 5 minutes to focus daily on 3 ways to work smarter not harder to increase sales

3 ways to close the sale

How will you make your till ring? Your marketing activity is going well, you’ve generated lots of interest in your product/service, and you’re engaging with your potential customers – either face to face, via email, over the telephone, on instant messaging or on a social media site – so how are you going to get 3 ways to close the sale

Measure your marketing activity – Return on Investment

Measure all marketing activity What was the best thing that you did to promote your business in the last 12 months? Can you identify what made it work? How much did it cost? What exactly did you get from it? It makes sense that if we have a campaign that works exceptionally well that we Measure your marketing activity – Return on Investment

3 tips to make your business stand out from the crowd

Let’s face it, unless you’ve had the most amazing idea, or found a completely untapped market, it is reasonable to expect that you will have competitors. On first impressions, it may appear that they offer exactly the same as your business. They are in the same industry, with same products and services. So, why would 3 tips to make your business stand out from the crowd

5 Tips for a great Facebook Business Page

Make sure that you have set up a business page, and not a personal profile page. To set up a business page, go to www.facebook.com/pages and click on create a page in the top right corner. A business page provides more functionality than a personal profile page, and if people are searching for your business, 5 Tips for a great Facebook Business Page

Increase sales through your business image

Does your business front unlock more sales? During my 5 minutes focus on my business this morning, I spent the time considering whether my business front (in my case my website) unlocks more sales and drives more queries and have come up with a whole A4 page of things to do which I’ll be implementing over the Increase sales through your business image