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The “secret” ingredient to your sales success

I was reading Gavin Ingham’s blog post this morning about Abraham Lincoln, and about how much failure he had endured before he finally succeeded with his political goals. It is a good inspirational post for a Monday morning, so you should go check it out. I was thinking last week about this very same principal, about how every winner, not only in business, but in life, sports, you name it, necessarily overcomes failures. Usually on an ongoing basis! It is as though one of the ingredients of...

So, like, do you sell startups?...

The answer is no, I don’t sell startups. In fact, I don’t really sell anything at all…at least not on here. Of course the title in this blog post is the question that I get often when I tell people where they can read my blog. Here’s my official answer. SellingtheStartup.com is my online space where I document, think out loud, iterate, and sometime reiterate my thoughts about doing sales in a startup...

Crickets chirping in your online store?...

A friend of mine was telling me the other day that her online store had experienced a steady decline to the tune of 60% over the past 8 months. At first she simply did what everyone else is doing, she attributed the steep decline to the economy. People just weren’t spending money on clothes anymore. “Wait a minute”, I told her. My fiance just bought a couple of hundred dollars worth of clothes online”....

Your startup doesn’t really exist...

Here is a concept for you. Your startup business doesn’t really exist until you have sales! This may seem obvious to some. But for those of you who are out there still “setting up” your business, let me drop some knowledge on you. “Setting up” your business does not mean that you have a business. How do I know this? Well, because I have “setup” many business. All of which resulted...

January 31st
	RT @neilpatel 10 Business Mistakes That Will Nearly Break You… Literally http://bit.ly/8UaxAo [#]
August 11th
	Turn "What's Your Job?" into a Sale http://bit.ly/19Vsor [#]
	The “secret” ingredient to your sales success...I just love making teaser titles http://bit.ly/3T2qjU [#]
August 10th
	Published The “secret” ingredient to your sales success
August 5th
	Re-launching the Softworks website. Any constructive feedback is appreciated! www.softworksco.com [#]
July 27th
	Starting using FreshBooks in place of QB...refreshingly simply yet powerful. I highly recommend it. FreshBooks.com [#]
July 24th
	RT @BIGideaguy: An 18 minute plan for managing your day: http://bit.ly/RVVgY [#]
July 22nd
	Get out and stay out of your comfort zone. - Bob Parsons [#]
July 21st
	RT richschefren releases a MEGA ground-breaking blog post about Billy Mays infomercial formula http://tinyurl.com/kt2nmy [#]
July 13th
	Cold calling is painful but effective for startups. http://bit.ly/6ABub [#]

So, like, do you sell startups?...

Crickets chirping in your online store?...

Your startup doesn’t really exist...

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