The Limey Report » profits

Can you increase sales by going back in time?

thelimey — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:47:55 +0000

Despite losing almost $2.5-billion dollars in the third quarter of 2009, the USPS mail service still offers the most persuasive way to get your sales message across.

Emails can be deleted with a click, their contents unseen. But an envelope in your hand is far harder to treat with such shallow concern. Most of your competitors go the email route, so if your brochures are tactile who’ll win the prize?

And it’s not just brochures – The better online stores offer catalogs, door hangers, postcard printing, business cards and dozens more ways to get your message noticed – and turn your competitors green.

New sales are the lifeblood of all business, and what some less insightful people might tell you is ‘old-fashioned’ tech can still score more new sales than you think. Check out your options and you may soon be convinced…

Photo: Rdoke

How cardboard can increase your sales

thelimey — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:10:53 +0000

Selling to the public is always a battle, but in an economy as bruised as ours currently is it’s a challenge of Herculean proportions.

But many store owners have found something as simple as a good cardboard display can make that task a lot easier. Present your wares to your buyers in an attractive setting and the temptation to reach for the wallet becomes wonderfully strong. You can even get your display custom-made to increase the allure.

If you own a store, a few dollars invested on an attractive display can repay you a hundred times over. That link is one source, but browse around and see what you find.

An easy way to avoid Chapter 11

thelimey — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:55:54 +0000

This glorious country’s current economic malaise has seen the undeserved demise of many fine companies, and the dissolution of tens of thousands of jobs held by decent, hard-working people who deserved a more stable future and far better treatment.

If you want to help your company avoid the same fate, keeping your sales staff informed of the latest new prospect now has a degree of importance close to life and death. A mass notification system is one way to solve this – With such a system in place you can easily keep every relevant member of staff advised of new information and help your firm prosper and grow in a financial morass.

No-one deserves to suffer redundancy, so if you have the CEO’s ear you two might need to talk…

Photo by: Skoke Library