Quotes About Sales

Distressed properties are often vacant and in disrepair, and thus sold at significant discounts. As the share of distressed sales grows, home prices fall.

Valentine's Day is the biggest single day of the year, the biggest sale day of the year.

I don't need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets sold, somewhere in the world, every second.

We talk a lot in Silicon Valley about product pipelines and sales pipelines, but what about talent pipelines? It is, after all, talent - people - who give us products to sell.

Lists that segment people into clearly-defined categories are particularly valuable to direct marketers, which can tailor their sales pitch to a particular demographic and, therefore, increase the likelihood of making a sale.

With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.

there are only three ways to increase your business: 1. Increase the number of clients. 2. Increase the average size of the sale per client. 3. Increase the number of times clients return and buy again. Only

Marketing is the greatest return-on-investment activity a business can ever do. Let

You might be thinking, "My business responsibilities don't include clients and selling. I'm in the accounting/human resources/quality-control/MIS/production department." Think again. The fact is, everyone is in sales.

as long as their salespeople maintain sales from existing clients at past levels or above, give them 100 percent of the profit on the first sale for every new client they bring in. They'll be ten times more motivated to sell new clients.

Your sales copy is the only contact you'll have with the vast majority of your visitors. That's why you have to make the most of it.

establish three sales points on the way to the exit.

the best salespeople do not work for a salary but instead for a commission.

Billboards can do more than attract direct sales on occasion. Billboards also help when you are new to an area and want to make your presence known and when you want to tie in with a unique advertising campaign or promotion.

All other forms of marketing can help you immensely, but direct marketing can help you more.

Direct marketing refers to direct-mail, e-mail, Web site, mail-order, or coupon advertising, as well as to telephone marketing, direct-response TV, postcard decks, door-to-door salespeople, home shopping TV shows, or any method of marketing that attempts to make a sale right then and there.

Meanwhile, large corporations have invented a Web genre that combines and remediates a number of forms, including the promotional ad or brochure, the stockholder's report, and marketing and sales materials.

In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing.

What nerds miss is that it takes hard work to make sales look easy.

The average American salesmen keeps 33 men and women at work - 33 people producing the product he sells . . . and is responsible for the livelihood of 130 people.

If you want to sell 'em fish, sell 'em big fish. That's the secret to success.

I once worked as a salesman and was very independent. I took orders from no one.

The Bottom Line: If people don't LOVE our work, we will not be able to sell what we make.

The price of an e-book is a lot less than the price that we're charging for a hardcover book. It's about the same as we charge for a paperback. And that means a different revenue stream.