The Commonly held belief is that outside sales representatives do not get overtime pay. This is because the federal overtime law, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), specifically exempts outside sales reps from being paid overtime pay. Normally, the FLSA requires an employer to pay its employees one and ½ times their regular rate of pay if that employee works more than 40 hours per week.In order for an outside sales...more
One of the most exciting things when you begin the journey of affiliate marketing is getting clicks or hops to your affiliate site. I remember that feeling quite well. I had just begun as an affiliate marketer and I barely knew what I was doing. So I created two Yahoo email accounts for some free marketing with Yahoo Answers. I had one to ask a question with and the other to answer my questions with. Of course with the answer...more
It's Not an Interview, It's a Sales Pitchby Robert MainOne of the common mistakes I see a lot of candidates make when they go to an interview is that they think it is a question and answer session. They approach the interview with a mindset that their role is to be prepared to answer a bevy of questions thrown at them. This puts you in a passive role, playing defense. A much more effective approach is to go into the interview with the mindset that you are a salesperson, and the product you are selling is you. You want to convince the employer that you have something of real, tangible value to offer them for their money. You have an advantage in that you know what they are looking for because you have the description of job in your career resume. Now, you need to sell them on why your skills and experience are the best solution they are looking for compared to your competitors.Prepare and rehearse your sales pitch until it is second nature. You want to have the most compelling pitch as to why you are the best person of all of the sales pitches they are going to get from other candidates. One way to do this is to really dig deep to discover what your one or two major strengths are...more
Businesses often use leasing finance so that they can get the equipment they need to operate, be it a new car or van, some new catering equipment or the computers and other IT equipment needed by their back office staff.Why do businesses choose to lease rather than to buy? For some it is because they cannot raise the money in any other way, the...more
Here are 10 frequently asked brief purchase questions which are incredibly useful specifically if you might be just obtaining started or thinking about shorter product sales as a implies to acquiring pre-foreclosures.1. What occurs towards the seller's credit rating when they let an investor to brief promote their home?What usually...more
Darin Spindler review's Chet Holmes' book The Ultimate Sales Machine. This is a great book that I just learned about a few weeks ago. It's a national bestseller and it's been there for quite some time.Chet recently joined up with Tony Robbins and they're putting together a great program for small business owners, so you may want to check that out also.But this is a great book, and I'm just going to review one of his concepts in here that is an old concept but he really makes it simple, clear and easy to understand. He calls it developing your Dream 100. And in many circles, like real estate, they used to call it farming.Essentially, you go out, you get yourself a list—a small list—only of a hundred of your dream clients or the dream prospects that you want to be a part of your restaurant or your business. So we actually are implementing for one of my businesses the Dream 100. We actually have our list of a hundred, and we've started to work it. And we've already got results in just a few weeks, so it's fantastic. But the premise of it is this. You get a hundred people on your list, and you focus intensely on them. So you're sending them bigger packages. You're...more
To make your direct mail offer work, you have to have a good sales letter. A strong sales letter is the cornerstone of a rock solid plan and you should invest time to develop a good one for the product that you are selling. Even though...more
Every retail store has high traffic locations in-store outside of the sales counter. These are usually destination locations in a store, where the most often purchased products are located.The best was to identify these locations is to...more
Its managing director Cem Peksaglam said Bosch Malaysia had recorded a 40% year-on-year sales growth for the first six months of this year."This will make up for the loss of sales by 21% to a total of RM396mil last year.Cem Peksaglam:...more
Many may possibly wonder if payment protection insurance will be worth its fees each month. Of course, this would be determined by several factors of the particular insurance itself, and also the certain situations of the insured individual. The...more
Are you looking to start a web hosting business while avoiding all of the technical responsibilities that come with it? Reseller hosting is the solution! Reseller hosting plans offer you the freedom of selling space, without the hassles that come...more
The car sales in the Indian market soared to new heights by registering a 33 percent increase in the month of August 2010, as per the data released by auto industry body SIAM (Society of India Automobile Manufacturers) on Thursday. The...more