Saturday, December 31, 2005

What It Truly Takes To Succeed In Business

Hello fellow Information entrepreneurs

Here is a secret that may be difficult for you to believe, so prepare yourself. It is an extremely important secret that can have a most profound impact on your small business success, or it's failure.
Let's start by asking a simple question...Do you enjoy sales?

The truth of the matter is that when many small business owners are asked this question, they respond with answers like, "No way" or "I can't stand sales, let someone else do it." Why is your answer to the above question so important?

No doubt you have seen headlines like the following, which glorify how easy and simple it is to succeed in business: "The Ultimate Lazy Way To Start Your Own Business" "Cash In On A Multi-Billion Dollar Industry In Your Underwear" "Easily Generate A Lucrative Income While Sleeping" We are constantly being bombarded with these "easy ways" to make a million bucks.

Does success in business actually work this way? Not in reality! Is it realistic? Not even close! The bottom line in operating a successful long-term business comes down to your ability to sell your product...period. It doesn't get any simpler than that. You can either sell your own product or resell somebody's else's product. Either way, your success or failure will ultimately depend on your ability to market it. If you don't enjoy sales, you have very little chance to succeed in business for yourself.

The most prevalent attitude of many new business owners is that their product, once launched, will miraculously sell itself. After all, the product is awesome and everybody will absolutely, positively want one. People should be lining up to buy it, right?

Here is another truth about sales. It will take 5-7 sales attempts to close 80% of your sales. Yes, you read that correctly. That's 5-7 attempts before people will say "Yes, I want to buy your product." Running an advertisement one-time or making a sales pitch to a potential customer once in a while does not qualify as effort.

Hearing that first "no" and subsequently giving up means the demise of your business and gives someone else an opportunity to turn that NO into a YES. What most people don't realize or fail to accept is that it may take weeks, months or even years to get a product to sell according to your expectations. You may have to frequently change your sales pitch, web site, advertisement or even the product until you get it right.

This dedication and determination is what separates the very few successful business owners from the many "wannabes" and fly-by-night hopefuls.

The bottom line is that to be successful in ANY business you will need talent and the ability to sell, sell, sell.

Keeping what I have previously mention in mind, if your ready to take your product or service to the next level and your willing to learn some new techniques for selling, then please send me your email address and I willsubscribe you to my newsletter website Speaking4 profit and send you for FREE my ebook on effective selling stratgeies.
If you have a more specific question for me you can always ask me a question using the link listed below.
http://www.askdatabase.com/campaigns/?a=18343&c=agf&b=3067

Always Remember,
All information has Value,
when in the hands of the person who needs it.
Johnny Campbell- The Transition Man




Tuesday, December 20, 2005

The Secret to becoming a 50k or more Professional Speaker or Information Entrepreneur

Becoming a professional speaker or Information Entrepreneur can be a very lucrative and enjoyable lifestyle filled travel and adventure. However, if not approached correctly your life as a professional speaker or information entrepreneur can be very short and filled with frustration & aggravation. To avoid this potential dark-side to the information distribution business always remember my quote “Many are called to speak but few have chosen to make a real living at it.”
Rule # 1 Professional speakers or Information entrepreneur are not born; they are made. If you remember nothing else from this article remember that this is a Business and all information has value to someone.
Therefore in order to be successful in this business you must seek out clients who can pay you bottom-line. Although, this concept seems simple, it continues to amaze me how many people who enter this business lost sight of this objective.

So, what does it take to succeed online and offline?
You must:
1. Identify specific market capable of paying you.
2. Learn how to market your product or yourself to clients, who can hire book you.
3. Learn how to develop books, CD’s, ebooks and educational materials.
4. Learn from people who are doing NOW and Making MONEY at it Now.
If the idea of being Paid to Speak or making money online excites You?

Then click the link below and "Answer my Simple question "What is the 1 thing you would like to learn about being paid to speak or selling information online.

http://www.askdatabase.com/campaigns/?a=18343&c=agf&b=3067

Always Remember,
All information has Value,
when in the hands of the person who needs it.
Johnny Campbell- The Transition Man