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Tag Archives: sales
Housing Starts
NEW RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION IN FEBRUARY 2010 BUILDING PERMITS * Privately-owned housing units authorized by building permits in February were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 612,000. This is 1.6 percent (±1.0%) below the revised January rate of 622,000, but is 11.3 percent (±1.8%) above the February 2009 estimate of 550,000. * Single-family authorizations in [...]
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Home Sales Down
The real estate market is still suffering and the weather has not helped. According to the National Associatio of Realtors: The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday proposed a rule amending Regulation Z (Truth in Lending) to protect credit card users from unreasonable late payment and other penalty fees and to require credit card issuers to [...]
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Existing-Home Sales Down Sharply
Existing-home sales fell in January but are above year-ago levels, according to the National Association of Realtors®. Existing-home sales – including single-family, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops – dropped 7.2 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate1 of 5.05 million units in January from a revised 5.44 million in December, but remain 11.5 percent above the [...]
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98 Cents Short of a Dollar
You’ve met them in a variety of places in business. The people who are all bluff and no stuff. To talk with them you would think they are on top of the world. But in reality they don’t have 2 cents in their pockets. One thing is for sure – they want to use your [...]
The Killer Instinct
You wake up that morning and the CLOSE OF YOUR LIFE immediately comes into your mind. You begin to get a little nervous. You think it through to settle your mind down. This is no time to get anxious or nervous. After all, you are a professional and this is just another close. But you [...]
Business Modeling
A small business normally scrambles for every bit of business that it can get. You need to keep cash flow rolling and one of the ways to do that is to keep the pipeline full of work. You have to ask yourself what you’re lower and upper limits in business are. This is where MODELING [...]
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Takin' it to the Market
It takes a lot to sell and make money in a business. You have the education, read all the right books and have a fair amount of experience. But you still don’t seem to be making good selling decisions & your judgement seems lacking regarding actually getting the job done. You are not as far [...]
Control In Your Job
When you first took the sales job that you currently have you thought that you were set for life. However, you soon found out that because you doubled your production in sales and exceeded what management thought you would do they cut your commission percentage in half. Now you have to work twice as hard [...]
It's the Volume…It's the Volume…It's the Volume
You want to be a fantastic sales person. Others seem to be doing very well at it but you don’t seem to have a clue. You try and try but your numbers just don’t seem to be making it. My friend, let me tell you about sales – It ‘s the Volume…It’s the Volume…it’s the [...]
No Sale For Mantua Gardens East