BLITZ Business Success Blog

Prosperity Pyramid – How to do away with the traditional sales funnel and stop cold calling

We have all heard of the ‘sales funnel’ for business. Traditionally we have been taught that we find our leads and pour them into our sales funnel. As we work through the sales process, creating more and more touches to our leads we work ourselves into their conscious. As they get to a point where…

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Why Discussing Your Ideas Gets You Better Solutions

Were they good ideas or were they a waste of my time? If I’m not getting what I want right now then what had to change and what had to stay the same.

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Building a Mastermind Group – Part III Rules

Today on our teleconference call Rich Grof gave us three of his top ten things to do to help double your income.  The first was to find out what’s holding you back and get accountability partners, technical experts, and outsourced support to help free you from the things you shouldn’t be doing to focus on…

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Working in Mastermind Groups – Three Things to Look for When Joining a Group

There are a lot of types of support you can engage in to help grow your business, like mentoring, training, coaching, etc. When you commit to learning and growing using these support systems you will always take away something of value. Today I’d like to talk about three things to look for when you are thinking of joining a mastermind group to get the support you need to grow your business.

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Time Management: Prioritizing your tasks

I wanted to share a piece of my last newsletter article on prioritizing your tasks to help with time management because I feel the exercise is a really great way to start the process of freeing up your time. There are many great tools out there to help you manage your time. Here is one I like.

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Building a Mastermind Group – Part II Commitment

To have an effective mastermind group you will need to have three things in place: Intake, Commitment and Rules. For Commitment a person must be able to book all meetings ahead of time and will commit to being at the meetings as if they were client sales calls.

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Working with the Right Tools: Can laundry really affect my business?

Know what the key components of your business are and know what to do if they go down or are lost. You must have an alternate plan for the core processes so you do not loose current clients and prospects.

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Building a Mastermind Group – Part I Intake

In a peer group filled with competitors people feel compelled to talk about how great things are going and may not feel safe to reveal to a competitor that their business is struggling in some aspect. No one wants their competitor to have that kind of edge.

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Why Network: Do You Really Need to Attend to Get More Clients?

Are You Going to Network? It doesn’t have to be in a structured setting, but it does have to happen. Get out there and meet your fellow business owners, you will be glad you did.

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Filling the Pyramid: A bottom’s up look at the new sales funnel

Every time I got a no I would strike out one ‘No’ on the sheet and move on to the next call. The expectation was that 100 no’s would get me 10 yes’s and of those I would get 3 sales. YUCK! I don’t like those odds. When I heard that people were getting closed sales of 90% or more I thought to myself, “how could this be possible?”

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