I didn't really care about sales figures. I just wanted to get things off my chest.
The first 90 percent of a revolution is creating the product or service; the second 90 percent is evangelizing it. At the beginning of a revolution, you need evangelists, not sales, because leverage spreads news.
Distressed properties are often vacant and in disrepair, and thus sold at significant discounts. As the share of distressed sales grows, home prices fall.
Too often, sales reps simply regurgitate their presentations and expect to land the sale. It doesn't work.
I don't think goal setting is an important basis for a retail business - or for anyone. Most of the time goal setting puts too much energy and attention on being someplace else, instead of helping you appreciate where you are. If I ran a retail store, which I have done in my life, I would go into it from a place of "I am thrilled to be here, and I am honored to be able to serve other people. " I would not be telling myself constantly that I have to double my sales in order for me to be happy. I would tell myself, "I am content to be here in this moment, and I love this work. "
At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.
There are a lot of public figures who, before they take a stand on a issue, they talk about it with their publicist and they figure out how it's going to affect record sales. Life is really too short to worry about that sort of thing.
I feel like people who criticize authors for being self-promotional fail to recognize that a lot of times their ability to continue writing hinges on sales and recognition. Some of it is for fun, some of it is for ego, but a lot of it is just writers trying to ensure longevity to their career.
Internalize the Golden Rule of sales that says: All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like and trust.
I will not let my sales figures dictate what I say on the blog, because the blog is what I want to say.
If drink sales are falling off, we get the pilots to engineer a bit of turbulence. That usually spikes sales.
As an artist who lives here and wants a more sophisticated engagement between local social dynamics and global discourse, it's great to see that reflected via the relationships we've developed with our customers. For some people it's a political act to eat from us three days a week because they recognize they are financially supporting the premise of the project each time they come. 95% of our annual revenue is purely from the public via food sales.
There can be no success in sales without tenacity.
Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.
If you increase the sales tax. . . everybody would be taxed.
Pitching. You're pitching yourself constantly which is probably why there are so many plays about sales. I think also it's like life.
A salesman, like the storage battery in your car, is constantly discharging energy. Unless he is recharged at frequent intervals he soon runs dry. This is one of the greatest responsibilities of sales leadership.
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important. ' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
In sales, it's not what you say; it's how they perceive what you say.
An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.