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Sales Rep or Order Taker

Are you a Sales Rep or an order taker?

If customers call you to place orders, does that make you a sales rep? Should you be given a commission on that sale? Many an outfit puts people on the phone desk and calls them sales reps. Customers call in and place orders. All these so called sales reps. do is take orders. That should […]

Are you sure you are profitable

Are you sure you are profitable? You must do the math

You would think that if you buy something for X dollars, and sell it on eBay at over four times that, you should be making a profit. Maybe – maybe not. On bigger dollar value products, that quite often may be true but on smaller parts, your basic minimum costs may be too high to […]

Upsell and Add-ons can add to your profit per order

Small Business Ideas: How to Increase Sales – II

There are so many ways in which you can increase your sales without going through a massive effort. Minor subtleties can add to your bottom line and strengthen your relationship with your customers. Just because your customer didn’t ask for it does not mean you cannot quote it. You end up helping your customer save […]

How to increase sales - product bundling

Small Business Ideas: How to Increase Sales – I

  There are many ways to increase sales and profitability. You can try to acquire more customers but it is a bit expensive. One very effective way is to increase sales by selling more to the same customers through slight variations and bundling of accessories. Customers that are buying from you already have put their […]

Images help page aesthetics and on-page SEO value

SEO Tips: Why use images

Adding images to your web pages have SEO value in addition to page aesthetics. This short video will help you understand it better.  

Be creative

Be Resourceful – Grow your business

Sharing ideas about how to grow your small business. Be resourceful – discover assets that you never thought were assets. Feel free to share your ideas in the comments below.

Making lemonade out of lemons

Sometimes the sum of the parts is greater than the whole

Some time back, I asked our computer technician to install heatsinks on a specific CPU + motherboard combination. It was a low powered CPU and did not require a fan. Our technician took a whole bunch of CPU coolers that had both heatsinks and fans and removed the fans from the heatsinks and installed the […]

Best days to send emails

Best days to send emails

What are the best days to send emails   Ever wondered what are the best days to send emails? This Getresponse report will give you some insights into the best days to send emails, how soon your emails are opened, after how long does the chance of your email being opened becomes zero? What months […]

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