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Selling in a Recession: 5 Strategies for Selling in Tough Markets
There are steps you can take to make sure the impact on your sales are minimized during a downturn in the economy. These are also valid when there has been a downturn in your sales for any reason and you want to give your sales program a boost.Read the story.
Recession Marketing: The Rules Change
In a recession, consumers become value oriented, distributors are concerned about cash, and employees worry about their jobs. But a downturn is no time to stop spending on marketing. The key, says professor John Quelch, is to understand how the needs of your customers and partners change, and adapt your strategies to the new reality.Read the story.
Marketing for the 21st Century
Veteran contractor and former NAPSA president, Gabriel Vitale, provides a checklist for keeping your marketing up with the times. Adapted from information Vitale provided at NPE 2007. Available in both written and .mp3 formats.Read or listen to the story.
Bids-A-Lot Program Enhances Contractor Professionalism, Profitability
Today's web-based Bids-A-Lot bidding program offers more benefits than ever before, as well as more ways to help sweeping contractors increase their profitability. Read the story.
How to Beat Your Biggest Competitor With Your Marketing
Marketing consultant, Charlie Cook, tells how to combat prospect indifference in order to gain their attention -- and their business as a new client. Read the story.
Seven Great Sales Strategies
These seven ideas, provided by nationally-recognized business performance consultant, Gregory P. Smith, will all help you take your business to the next level. Read the story.
Pitching Your Sweeping Service In Person
Here's what to do when you meet someone face-to-face to secure a sweeping contract. Read the story.
Get Your Power Sweeping Company Looking Good on Paper
An experienced contractor tells how to put forth a professional image on paper. Read the story.
Your Phone is the Lifeline
of your Business.
Sweeping contractor, Lee Ann Taylor, tells how to use your phone to best advantage in getting clients. Read the story.
What You Need to Know About Yellow Pages Advertising
Yellow pages guru, Barry Maher, tells it like it is when it comes to yellow pages advertising. Read the story.
13 Tips to Designing Better Yellow Pages Ads
'Big' Mike McDaniel offers his tips to consider when designing your yellow pages advertising. Read the story.
Gotcha! Attitude is Everything in Sales
Guy offers a host of down-to-earth steps to amplify
the gains that can be made via the use of positive enthusiasm alone. Read the story.
Internet Bidding is Latest Power Sweeping Industry Wrinkle
Online reverse auction bidding process for sweeping services seems to cause a 'feeding frenzy' that plummets bid prices. Read the story.
Approaching Property Managers With Success
Panel of property management pros will help you understand the way your clients think so that you'll have a much better chance to secure the account. Read the story.
Working Successfully With Property Managers
Property manager with the Mathews Company in the Nashville, TN, offers her insight into the vital area of how you can work more successfully with property managers. Read the story.
National Sweeping Service Vendors: Boon or Bane?
Article discusses management companies that represent national retailers in their purchase of sweeping services. Read the story.
National Sweeping Services: The Target Stores Experience
Article discusses contractor and Target Stores' perspectives and costs re: failed national vendor NLS. Read the story.
Marketing for the "Long Run"
Don Turner, owner of Parking Renovations, has 3-decades of marketing experience and he shares what he knows. Read the story.
Selling Your Services to Big Business
Step-by-step directions for landing the lucrative accounts. Read the story.
Why Should Malls Use a Contractor Instead of Sweeping In-house?
For a variety of reasons, contractors can typically do the job better, using the correct sweeper for a particular job, than can a mall that operates its own sweeper. Read the story.
Information also available as an Adobe pdf handout that is suitable for providing to a mall manager that operates an in-house sweeper using mall employees.
Selling Your Power Sweeping Services to Big Business
Step-by-step directions for landing the lucrative accounts. Read the story.
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