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By VirTaskticSales

The Gateway to Sell to China Is Wide Open for Small Businesses

Can you go from the selling sweet potato cookies on the block in Detroit to exporting overseas? It’s possible. If you can sell on the street, you can sell anywhere. Even Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba, learned sales skills on the street of China growing up as a kid. The process is the same:...

By VirTaskticSales

How Serving, Not Selling, Helps You Stand Out From the Competition

I’m often asked by business owners and salespeople alike how they can be more competitive in the marketplace. I hear, “What can we do to stand out from the competition in our industry?” “How can we be different?” “What can I do to help people remember me and what I do?” While I’m a huge...

By Ramon RayFeatured, Sales

Gateway ’17: Alibaba’s Mission to Help Small Business Owners Expand Globally

By 2022, China’s middle-class population is projected to grow to nearly twice the size of the entire U.S. population. That means over 600 million potential customers on the other side of the globe…if only you could access them. Fortunately, the game is changing; these days even small business owners can go global if they...

By Ramon RayOperations, Sales, Technology

Salesforce Introduces Einstein High Velocity Sales Cloud

Salesforce, the world's #1 CRM company and Intelligent Customer Success Platform, today delivered the future of sales with Einstein High Velocity Sales Cloud. Einstein High Velocity Sales Cloud brings together the industry’s leading sales productivity app and the latest advancements in AI to empower sales reps to succeed in the digital era. Fueled by...

By Ramon RaySales, Your Smart Hustle

The Rapid Growth Guy Shares Tips on Finding Your Niche and Building a Sales Machine

Many small business owners have dreams of rapid growth; that point when your product or service takes off and your profits soar. Perhaps you fantasize about becoming a millionaire, the next Facebook, or THE name that comes to mind when your industry is mentioned. These are the types of goals that we most often associate...

By VirTaskticAdvice, Salesnetworking

Four Easy Steps to Nurture your Business Network

It’s not what you know, but who you know, right? Well, that might not be the golden rule of business success - competence and drive assuredly rank higher - but knowing the right people and fostering relationships with them can only help you in working towards that success. Unfortunately, networking is something that people find...

By VirTaskticOperations, SalesCRM

How to Use a CRM to Close the Gap Between Sales & Service

For me, the importance of having connected sales and service teams can be summed up in one frustrating experience I had as a consumer. I was a long-time loyal customer of a particular company and called for assistance with a relatively routine issue. The service rep did not have access to my sales record...

By Megan TotkaMarketing, Operations, Salescustomers

Keeping an Eye on your Loyal Customers

The customer relationship is not over at the end of the sale. In fact, that is when it has just begun. Statistics show new customers cost an average of six to seven times more to acquire than selling to a repeat customer. In fact, it is estimated that 80% of a company’s business comes...

By Josh TuckerSalesmindset, productivity

How to Make Your Business Hustle S.M.A.R.T

Setting goals as an entrepreneur is important. You need to do this for yourself, but you need to do it for your employees as well. Not only that, but you need to make sure you and your team are held accountable for their responsibilities. The first thing to realize is that most of us don’t...

Addressing After Hour Leads Is your Businesses Missing out on Potential Revenue

By Josh SiegelSalesautomation

Addressing After Hour Leads: Is Your Business Missing Out on Potential Revenue?

Based on ReachLocal data of over 3,000 small businesses, nearly a quarter (23%) of local business leads come in after hours through emails, form fills, calls, and chats. Additionally, research shows that 50% of consumers will choose to do business with the company that responds to them first. The problem isn’t that leads aren’t responded...