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Keep Your Sales Momentum After the Holidays

Posted on Dec 29, 2011 in Business Growth | Comments Off

The Christmas rush is over. The returns are happening now, and you may already have plans or be chilling champagne for New Years night. But, what are your plans for starting the New Year right for your business?

Although a party is good and refreshing, your business is more important than a party held one night a year. While you know this, it is easy to think there is time to worry about it later. Now is the time of year to plan what your moves will be next week, next month, next quarter and next year. Once that is in place, enjoy that party without the worries.

You are a special breed of businessmen and businesswomen, called entrepreneurs. And even more important, you are a Stomper, which means we want you to have an extremely prosperous New Year!

While I am wishing you a prosperous New Year in 2012, I know you need the materials to increase your sales and income. Fortunately today’s post by Audrey Kerwood is about how you can keep your sales momentum rockıng after the holidays. These tips may seem small, but if you make them yours, you will start your year off with a bang!

Open Doors for New Revenue

Posted on Dec 21, 2011 in Business Growth | 1 comment

by Melanie Benson Strick

One of the biggest challenges facing a service-based business is how to grow bigger than just you. When your revenue is a result of the work solely you perform, you can only get as big as the amount of time you can actually work for a client.

Time constraints can create a wealth ceiling; without proper leverage strategies your revenue will be limited. Or worse yet, you’ll work yourself into the ground trying to fit in more clients.

It’s time to unleash leverage into your business so you can explode your profits without giving up your life. Here are some strategies I teach my clients to grow.

Think  “Leveraged” Offerings

To avoid getting caught in the time-for-money trap, you’ll want to think in terms of “how can I get this  knowledge to many people at once?” The following are some of the best strategies for leveraging your time and being able to impact multiple people at once.

Tips for Virtual Teams and Systems for Your Business

Posted on Nov 18, 2011 in Conversion | 2 comments

We have some gardeners on the StomperNet team. Some have roses, some have flowers, and some have vegetable gardens or combinations thereof. But these are a lot of work, unless you put some great systems into place that can make it easier.

Your business is similar in many aspects to a garden. Both should have certain systems and mechanisms in place to automate labor and reduce it as well.

Weed block cloth reduces weeding, just like using someone to check your email reduces your email. Sprinkler systems help reduce the amount of watering the gardener does, just as your autoresponder sprinkles information to your subscribers. Many gardens require supports to help the plants grow better and stronger, just like businesses. These are all systems the gardener or your business can use to make things work smoother and easier.

You have already received some great advice this week about systems and automation. Today we have some tips that you want to make certain are part of your business. Although basic, these are the supports that will help your business, so you aren’t constantly weeding and watering your business to get it to grow.

Now you can work on the main goal, which is the cultivation of your business and the regular harvests of profits.

Consumer Lifecycle

Posted on Nov 4, 2011 in Conversion | Comments Off

Typically you do not ask favors of random strangers. You do not expect strangers to hand you cash just for the sake of it. If you need something, you generally ask your friends and family. You have a relationship with them, and because of that they are more likely to help you.

Yet, in business we expect that consumers will just open their wallets and tell their friends to do the same… just because we are a business. Consider starting a relationship with your customers and clients. Just like with any relationship, it has cycles. Learning how to make these cycles work for you will help your relationship grow, which in turn helps your business.

The best part of this cycle is that once it’s started, all you need to do is maintain it. The customers and clients in this relationship help keep the business moving forward and growing. A long-term arrangement like this is designed to provide both of you with mutual benefits.  In Ryan Garey’s article today, you will learn essential techniques on how to build relationships and why you want to start to grow that relationship marketing now.