I work with a radio station in the Caribbean selling advertising to businesses. How can I boost my sales by a 1000% and stand out from all the other sales people in the market place?
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You will probably get lots of different answers, but my opinion on what makes a good sales person is this:\n\n1) product knowledge - yours and your competitors! You have to know how to position your product and respond to any objections to be able to effectively offer your product as a solution to meet the buyers need.\n\n2) develop a relationship built upon trust, honesty, integrity - your competitor may do the "hard sell" but developing an honest relationship will lead to word of mouth referrals and customers for life! Get to know the individual, their office staff (gate keepers), their business, their competition, their market space so that you can position your product to completely meet their needs.\n\n3) once you have developed a relationship and you know your product is the right solution, ask for the business. Customers expect it and if you have responded to any objections, developed an honest relationship, then you should be in a nice position to close the deal.\n\n4) for customer that provide on-going sales - thank them for the business. Let me know how important they are and that you value them as a customer. Ask them to recommend your product to colleagues.\n\nGood luck!
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THE ANSWER IS AT THE BOTTOM! \n\nI'd have to say you CAN'T market your CD on a big scale and sell 1000 limited editions before June starting this late with no plan unless you get very creative or very lucky VERY FAST. You'll have to sell more than 37 copies every day from NOW until June 1st. Good luck! \n\nIf that doesn't dampen yr enthusiasm, then try this! If you wanna sell a thousand copies of yr album, you'll hafta do sumthin really stupid, like plug yr amps in the county courthouse, or the Military Monument (every town has at least one!) and start wailing, get yrself arrested then you'll be all over the news. \n\nJust explain that it was a promotional stunt. You'll hafta pay a fine, but that'll be easy, because now every kid in town will buy yr CD and yr on yr way to fame & fortune! Remember, fame & fortune are not for the weak! Do you have what it takes? \n\nKeep us posted! Maybe we can take up a fund for your bail!
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Increase demand of product by advertisement.\n\nAnd ake sure you have more demand than supply.
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direct selling to your friends, families and neighbours.\nwhen they like it and you get profit, open a small booth or rent a space to display more items
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Best way to approach this is to make yourself known locally. For example attend local flea markets...farm markets and even yard sales displaying and selling your products. You will get repeated customers and through word of mouth sales will pick-up. Don't be disappointed if you recieve negative results from some people...dogs have different tastes. Insure you have a contact name and phone number labeled on each product you sell. Good luck with your venture.
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Make as many CD copies as you can and post them out to as many radio stations that you can find.\n\nGood luck!!
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make phone calls to get business license, local paper advertising, (offer a special to the first 10 or whatever you think) put decals on your vehicle towards advertising, buy a book of professional invoices to leave with clients that have thin paper as a second copy for you to keep for your own records, grab a little filing cabinet for the clerical stuff to be filed into, have the local stationary shop create some business cards for the both of you to hand out to serious inquiries, post a few up on billboards, have a picture taken of the two of you together in your work garb to put up somewhere you see fit, establish monthly clientele where possible.
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Play as many shows as possible, get a following.  Labels want to sign someone who can sell CDs so make sure you have a crowd to sell them to.  Get your name out there with websites and merch.  Send one-sheets and press kits to labels that cater to your genre.
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buy out the complete space on the first page of leading local news paper. let the firs place be complete blank except for u store name xyz printed along with logo.....then buy out half of the second or last page and then advertise saying "what could be more buzzing news than xyz comming up in your city"? i think u could rephrase my words. this is just an idea. so instaed of scattering ur money by advrtsing in different ways when u sharply focus this way it will have the greates impact. and in a day all ppl would come to know that xyz exists and it opens. u not only create brand awareness by doing s but also u create brand image - surprising ppl. this is not myy craetive idea. nestle did the same when it launched its chocolate in india. one day and every body came to know what NESTLE is.
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For Yellow Pages, call your local telephone company and they will transfer you to an ad salesperson.\nInternationally you will want to advertise in an international industry directory such as the Thomas Register. Find it on-line or at a local library.\nGood Luck
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Try radio, local schools talk to music teachers about maybe hanging flyers around the school.  If your business is downtown try something unusual as maybe some previous students showing their talents outside your studio advertising the biz
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Fliers in every market and on every available bulletin board. \nHave some nice cards made up and give every customer a few at every job (for them to give to thier friends).\nAdvertise on your local Craigslist...\nhttp://www.craigslist.org
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The best way to move into new markets to find markets that are adjacent to the market you are already in. Don't try to stretch to completely new markets - it is too expensive. \n\nFind customers within your existing business who fit in both your current and adjacent markets and ask them how they learn about new products/services in their other market (what they read, what sites to they visit, what keywords to they use on Google, etc).  All this will help you find sources of media that best target these buyers.\n\nThen I would try to get PR before advertising. It is often less expensive and more effective.  If you have never used PR (Public relations) before, I have a suggestion. My friend opened up a business in a new market. To get local newspaper coverage, he went to the newspaper and asked which local PR specialists the newspaper liked to work with. Then he hired their recommendation to get him ink in the local paper. It worked like a charm.
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The simple answer is Write a Book. Even if it's not a best-seller, the fact that you've written a book will get you interviewed on talk radio ... and that will in turn get you more visibility and the possibility of a better book deal ... all of which equals more radio interviews, more book deals. The two feed each other. Then, eventually, you'll have enough credibility (if your ideas aren't completely derided and attacked as whacko) to get TV interviews. And then you're really rolling.\n\nAlso, it helps if you can get some deep thinkers like yourself to endorse your book ... or possibly even use it in a class.
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I've always gone for the sincere approach (rather than pushy)when trying to build on-going business and with bigger ticket items.  For sincere, put yourself in the other person's place: they may want to talk, but are busy, ask; good manners pay.  Start by offering them something of interest, something that will help them (a little known/interesting fact about their industry).  Ask if they are the right person, perhaps they'd rather you talk to a subordinate who's in charge of the group that would be interested in your service.  There's a very old book that is still very applicable for reps by Dale Carnagie, "How to Win Friends and Influence People".  (He means business friends, but it works elsewhere).
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You have to promote your music. If you're playing gigs put all the money you can on a great album to sell at your shows. Form a relationship with your local radio stations. Some will play indie music. Get in touch with music publishers. Do anything you can to get heard. The major labels won't accept unsolicited material so don't waste your time. You can also try taxi.com. They're a huge company the big boys go to when they want fresh faces and material. Don't give up. Good luck.
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Use a product that you use all the time. Tooth paste, deodorant, soap, brand of clothing, etc. etc. etc. This will give you an advantage because your already familiar with the product. Then just do a little research on that product like history of the product and company. After that set up your projected sales for a month. As a rule of thumb your advertising budget should be 3% to 5% of your projected sale. From there set up your web site and be sure to use power words that sale in your product description and advertising.