How to Get More Sales

There is only one path to success in your business. Sell more stuff. It really is quire easy if you have a product that people need/want and a great attitude. The only thing missing is an audience to know about it. This is where hard work comes into play.

Hard work brings good luck. And since "they" are touting 2011 as being the year for good luck. That translates to the year of hard work. Are you scared of hard work? Then you best quit now and get a government job! Thats the truth. If you need to sell more and don't want to do the work, you are going to fail.

Start with picking an area to sell in. Then fill a bucket with places to call. Get their numbers. Call them. Find out if they can use your services. Find out who makes that decision. Place you and your product in front of them. Collect money. Keep doing this till you have enough money (forever I guess).

There are really no special tricks. Just keep doing that till you hit one that works. If they don't need your services yet, call again later till they do! Repeat.

I am going to rant a bit (more for myself, but to you too if you're still reading): Why would you spend all this time working and struggling to create a business for yourself and spend too many hours on business if you are not going to do the hard work? What a ridiculous concept to sit around and wait for the phone to ring when there is about a hand full of people who even know who you are?! You have to get out and sell your product. Just waiting will make a slow demise for you and your business. Imagine the loss of everything you have worked hard for? Imagine what it would be like to loose everything because you wouldn't go out and do some hard work!

If you lived in caveman days, you would go after food every day so your family could eat. That is the truth. Now we are in houseman days and you need to go out and hunt so your family can eat. There is no one else who will be helping you if things get rough.

You are your own boss. This means that you have to be the one to sit yourself down and give yourself shit for being lazy, or for being tardy, or for leaving early. You have to be the one to threaten to fire yourself if things don't improve. You have to be to one to give you that look of disdain when the numbers aren't coming in. You. You. You. No one else is going to kick your ass.

You can start now. Pick up the phone. Call a potential customer. Ask for the order. They will be polite and tell you they don't want any or they will take your information and call you at a later date or they will be happy and order name tags.

Start now. Really. You have a phone (you might not soon if you don't start) so get on it and make yourself happy. If you are not selling at this point and you are wondering how to sell more, then chances are you are on the road to depression or worse. When you start to have a success, it gives you the ability to go after more with even better success. After two or three successful calls, you will find yourself in a great mood. Use that great mood to forward your sales campaign to new heights.

You can do it. You really will. If you are not used to going after new customers, you will be shaky at first. This is totally normal. Let yourself get used to talking with confused people. Let yourself thrive and be the envy of your friends. Not many people have the balls to go into business for themselves. You have done that. No get out and sell. Its easy when you get used to it.

Getting used to it. If you've ever been to the gym for any length of time, you will know that it sucks the first day. and then it sucks more the second day. The the third day it sucks, but you've stuck with it for three days, so you must have some tenacity. Then the fourth day, you're not sore, so hey! you must be used to it. The fifth day you find out that now you can lift a little more weight so, you are actually getting some traction on this. By the tenth day, you are ranting that you can feel the muscles building. By the end of the month you are telling all your friends that they should get fit because you've lost 5 lbs. Each day you go in on the second month, You are pushing yourself more and tracking your weight loss or muscle gain. You are excited to go to the gym because you feel successful.

Anything you do and stick to will feel like this. So the next few blog posts will be my journey into the land of selling. You will be able to feel the pain of sore muscles and the eventual glow of success. Stay tuned!