Colleen’s Blog

Is your business experiencing wild swings in revenue? Contrary to popular belief, putting too much emphasis on closing business is actually counterproductive to increasing your revenues. Every time you close a sale you should be adding three to four more leads to your pipeline. When you’re concentrating too much on closing business it detracts focus from gaining new leads. Before long, you will have no new leads to close business with, and this is what causes swings in revenue or sales whiplash, as I like to call it! Don't worry, dear sellers, there are ways to avoid having this. Are you wondering how you can attain consistent revenue?

Hong Kong is the fastest moving city I have ever been in. People are on the go every minute of the day. Racing from one meal to the next, and one appointment after another from what appears to be 6 in the morning to 10 at night. Every restaurant we have been to,Escalator switching times (local or international), has been packed to the gills, the streets are teeming with people at all times of day, and the subway jam packed. The energy is intoxicating.

In a recent statistic released by Statisticbrain.com, last year there were approximately 5.134 billion Google searches performed each day. While they should be releasing their 2013 statistics at some point in the new year, there’s no doubt that the number has gone up. Seeing that statistic begs the following three questions:

A win has to be considered a win by both parties. When a seller is happy, and the buyer is are happy, you have a successful sale.

At the Four Seasons we were welcomed at the curb by the concierge, greeted by name, and taken directly to our room for check-in. Each time I have come to China I have been checked into hotels this way and it sure beats standing in line at the desk!

Do you think that if your team has a negative attitude towards each other, it will translate to a negative attitude towards your customers? The answer is a definite yes. When a team expresses negativity it can never just be contained internally. It always gets expressed externally as well. Your customers will always be able to tune into any negativity your team may have about other team members, your product or services, your company, or the customers themselves.