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Pillars for Business Growth: Sales

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The series is from Chartered Accountant, consultant and author, Jeff Borschowa, from his book, 8 Pillars for Exponential Business Growth. The series is focused on how to find new and better ways to integrate innovation and technology to enhance the customer experience and improve efficiency in the accounting process.

The sales process focuses on closing deals, signing up new customers, and maintaining relationships with existing customers. Basically, this is the activity that converts your marketing leads and prospects into paying customers. If you are not comfortable with sales and negotiations, you need to gain some level of comfort and experience quickly. I recommend sales training programs for all of my customers and students, regardless of industry. I believe that our sales ability determines the level of success that we achieve in life. If you view “sales” as a negative concept, change your perspective to focus on relationship building and exceptional customer service.

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Pillars for Business Growth: Marketing & Networking

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The series is from Chartered Accountant, consultant and author, Jeff Borschowa, from his book, 8 Pillars for Exponential Business Growth. The series is focused on how to find new and better ways to integrate innovation and technology to enhance the customer experience and improve efficiency in the accounting process.

Marketing encompasses all activities that encourage a prospect to contact you in the first place. In my experience, it is hard to stand out or make any significant gains through traditional marketing, such as television, radio or newspaper advertisements, mainly due to the fact that mass media is exactly that – directed to the masses. For the most part, you target a medium’s entire audience and hope that they identify with you.
Random marketing can produce random results. Before you start marketing, you need to clearly identify the characteristics that represent your ideal customer. Creating a clear picture of the person you will ultimately target with your marketing will drastically improve your results, especially your return on investment for marketing effort and dollars. Your ideal customer will form the basis for any subsequent marketing plan that you develop.

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