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By Elinor Stutz

 Many business people become discouraged upon reading the headlines in the newspapers. They see predicted doom and gloom and ask themselves, why bother?

Your attitude and belief system affect everything you do. By paying attention to what you can do to improve your business climate and believing you can make a difference and succeed, you will stand a far better chance for succeeding. The following guideline will help you through tougher economic times.

The three easy steps you can take to boost business during tough times are:

1. Get the education for your business that you were putting off.

2. Call a minimum of 10 people per day whose name is in your database and whom you met personally.

3. Create and promote new product on days the phone is quiet.

Education comes in many forms: attending a university class, webinar, tele-class, seminars and conventions. Networking alone will potentially put you in front of a contact who has a brand new idea for you to consider.

Belonging to a mastermind group with members who have complementary businesses can bring about new ideas and insight on how to fast track your goals. Hiring a coach familiar with your business and your goals is one of the quickest routes to success and will pay back exponentialy.

Any piece of education will get you to your goal far more quickly and effectively than going it alone. As you continue to educate yourself and grow in confidence and with new ideas, you begin attracting more people to your business.

Everyone in business must be dedicated to a database management system or CRM (Customer Relationship Management) as it is referred to by many. The best advice is to group your contacts according to where you met them. In this manner, it is easy to reconnect months later with familiarity including where you met.

When you find your phone traffic has slowed, make it a habit to call a minimum of 10 contacts listed in your personal database on a daily basis. Most often, the person on the other end will be so glad you thought of them, they will begin to brainstorm with you as to how you can help one another. As this becomes an everyday habit, your phone will begin ringing again.

The days that are particularly slow are the days when you can easily give focused thought to writing articles, compiling a manual, recording the podcasts you have been meaning to do, and writing a manuscript.

Should one or some of these already be completed, the slower days are perfect for finding resources that will help promote your product(s). You can offer a free tele-class or webinar for your contacts; develop an affiliate program and pay a reasonable commission; speak to groups about your business and how your products will assist others; or become a vendor at larger venues to show off your new creations.

As you can see, by implementing the 3 easy steps listed above, instead of complaining about slow times, you will create good times on your own terms.

Through the years of entrepreneurship, I have followed all of the advice above. In particular, I hired coaches for a few months at a time when I was ready to get to the next level and get there more quickly than figuring it out on my own. Their fees were earned back exponentially.

While newscasters are predicting the economic perfect storm, many of us who follow the advice above are looking at our best year yet.

Elinor Stutz, CEO of Smooth Sale, LLC and author of “Nice Girls DO Get the Sale” trains others on her proven relationship selling techniques through services and products. Her book sells worldwide.

Services include training, coaching, and speaking. Her products suit all learning styles.

Visit Smooth Sale or call 800-704-1499.

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Your Sales Forecast Predicts The Future Of Your Business
By Jerry Glynn

 No matter what your business, your sales forecast is an essential part of your success. Sales are the driving force behind each and every industry, and having a clear picture of where your sales come from, and where they dont is the first step to improving both internal and external operations. If you are just beginning to see significant growth within your organization, the time to refine your sales process and sales forecast is now before operations become more complicated.

In practice, analysts try to estimate costs and benefits either by using survey methods or by drawing inferences from market behavior. For example, a product manager may compare manufacturing and marketing expenses to projected sales for a proposed product, and only decide to produce it if he expects the revenues to eventually recoup the costs. This involves the active search for viable leads, the filtering of information, tracking the progress of leads from inception to final result and finally it involves the management and analysis of the leads that were generated. A sales analysis software package can accomplish all of the above tasks, and save you, your employees, and your business a significant amount of time and effort.

Sales forecasting is an art rather than a science, which enables analysts to predict the forthcoming stages of sale of any company or organization. It is one of the most difficult areas of management where a lot of experience and knowledge is required for accurate prediction but also one of the most important, since it is undertaken to predict demand at different stages.

It is crucial to have a defined sales process, because without it you will not be able to develop a sales roadmap to track your milestones. Each sales person will forecast different revenue targets, and individualized sales roadmaps will be necessary for accurate monitoring. Sales processes that are well defined outline deliverables due at each milestone in the cycle, and if those deliverables are not completed, the rep responsible is not allowed to advance to the next milestone.

If this sounds complicated, it is because it is, which is why many companies turn to sales management software to accurately predict their sales forecast. If you decide to purchase a software program, be sure to evaluate the needs of your sales force and company as a whole, and take some time to research the different programs and the features of each one before you choose. One size does not fit all when it comes to the best products for your business, so make sure that you choose correctly.

Cloud9 Analytics delivers easy-to-use business intelligence applications directly to sales, marketing, and support organizations as a service over the Internet.For more information on Sales Forecasting visit the website

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