selling

There is an old adage that says, "Nothing happens until someone sells something." That is especially true in business. You may have the greatest product or service in the world, but unless someone sells it for you, you are not going to be in business for very long. Even Tim Forbes — creator of Forbes magazine — said, "We make our money selling our advice, not following it." Selling is everything.

A college professor once said, "Those who can, do. Those who can't, sell." However, selling is an art all its own. It's a skill, just like anything else. Whether you are selling a service like a Denver divorce lawyer or a maid in Beverly Hills who cleans the homes of celebrities, you have to have a skill to help position your product or service so that people are willing to purchase it.

If you can sell, you should. If you can't, you should at least give it a try. Whether you are doing a garage sale in your front yard or you have a hovercraft for sale, it is true: nothing happens until someone sells something.

Bloggers speaking about selling can be found at sites like thesalesblog and salesdnaltd.

by outdoorsurvivalguy Are you a writer, passionate about this or any other topic? Join Blogcritics!

Original Technorati articles tagged “selling”

• in Travel
  Phuket Property: Location, Location, Location - Part 2
  During the six years that I’ve lived in Phuket, Thailand I have visited just about every property development on the island and got to know all the towns - including the back streets.
  by / on Nov 10, 2011
• in Finance
  Should I Sell My Home or Rent it Out?
  Have you been debating renting your home versus selling it? Here are a few things to keep in mind...
  by brianrayl / on Oct 8, 2011
• in Small Business
  Great Customer Service in Challenging Times: The Differentiating Factor
  In times of economic turmoil how do you keep a job? How do you keep customers? Answer: customer service.
  by contactpoint / on Aug 25, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “selling”

 

• Guest Blogger: How to Resolve to Sell your Home Before the Spring

  
  Stagetecture — Authority: 116
  Guest Blogger #366, Entry #949, February 9, 2012 The new year is a time that’s traditional for making big plans. Aside from stopping smoking and hitting the gym more regularly another decision people make is to buy a new home. That means that despite the cold weather and early nights people are seriously looking ...
  4 hours ago

• The Secret To Selling Your House Fast – Feng Shui And Home Staging

  
  Interior Design Ideas — Authority: 111
  Apparently, first impression is important in home selling.  So when selling Bountiful Utah Homes , staging is important to sell a property faster.  When a property is staged, the seller is making the house look neutral for the potential consumers to imagine how they are going to arrange their stuff on the ...
  4 hours ago

• Short sales can mean bonuses for some homeowners

  
  Home Buying and Home Selling Tips — Authority: 128
  At first, the San Leandro woman, who had fallen behind on her condo payments, thought the letter was a scam. “You could sell your home, owe nothing more on your mortgage and get $20,000,” it proclaimed in large type. “I almost ripped it up,” she said. Full story is available on sfgate.com
  4 hours ago

• 5 Top-Selling Indian Novels of all time!

  
  Trakin' the india business buzz — Authority: 494
  India has produced many revered and highly acclaimed English fiction and novel writers who have garnered prestigious literary awards such as the Pulitzer and the Booker Prize, in the last few decades. Although English has been passed over in India as a colonial tradition, the novels written in English have been deeply ...
  4 hours ago

• Photo Marketing & Selling Secret #28: How To Respond To The Most Common Stalls On The Phone

  
  Piggy Bank Finances — Authority: 146
  Photography marketing is one of the most challenging aspects of running a successful photography business. So because you and I have put so much time and effort getting the telephone to ring, when it does ring, you want to be darn sure you are handling it correctly and most effectively, so you book as many callers as ...
  5 hours ago

• Profit and Loss Examples 1

  
  indiaedu — Authority: 114
  The video teaches how to solve problems related to profit and loss using examples.
  5 hours ago

• What Are Sales Manager’s Jobs In The Auto Industry ?

  
  urbanicemiami — Authority: 110
  It’s a fact that 90% of car buyers purchase a previously owned vehicle at some point in their lives. The “switch” from buying new to used car can be a predictable and satisfying one at that. There is a great potential for sales teams to initiate this tactic as well. In the auto and sales marketing game it seems ...
  6 hours ago

• Making It, Marketing It, Selling It

  
  Affiliate Business Internet Marketing Online — Authority: 149
  Craft Northern Ireland’s Making It programme creates business people out of crafts people. Craft NI’s Joe Kelly and the University of Ulster’s Clive Fiddis describe why the programme is needed, while Rachel O’Neill, a Making It graduate and Derek Wilson, a Making It participant explain the effect the the ...
  1 day ago

• 2011 siteIQ eBusiness Index | IBM.com and Cisco.com Share the Podium, HP.com is the largest in the land, and Dell Finally Gets Bragging Rights

  
  The Inside Track | siteIQ — Authority: 89
  The annual siteIQ eBusiness rankings just hit the airwaves. This year’s report is a whopper. 95 pages, 108 graphs – and our usual politically incorrect take on what it all means. Here’s how some of the 2011 rankings shake out. Overall Performance.  IBM.com and Cisco.com share the winner’s podium. 2011 was ...
  1 day ago

• How to avoid losing a short sale listing in the eleventh hour

  
  Home Buying and Home Selling Tips — Authority: 128
  If you have taken more than a few short sale listings, then it has probably happened to you. You have taken the listing, you have advertised it all around town (and all over the Internet), perhaps you have already even gotten through most of the short sale negotiation process. Now, all of a sudden, your short sale ...
  1 day ago

• Agent: Faulty Appraisals Hurting Home Sales

  
  Home Buying and Home Selling Tips — Authority: 128
  Sales statistics continue to show a rise in consumer confidence. But because the statistics include the sales of distressed properties and buyers’ desire to get a “deal,” they cloud the value of those statistics. Obviously, if all of the distressed properties were sold, the value of homes would increase, ...
  1 day ago

• Choosing The Right Beer Bottles For Home Brewing

  
  The Canadian Beer — Authority: 110
  Article by Floyd P. Dietz Beer has been around for centuries and for sure this beverage will continue to be with us for other millennia to come. The secret behind a beer’s taste does not only revolve in the ingredients a brewer uses but also in the type of the beer bottle it is stored, [...]
  1 day ago

• Real Estate Investing During The Down Turn

  
  Finance Article Directory — Authority: 126
  OK let’s establish a few ground rules for this article first. 1) Bad markets have happen before…and people still made money. 2) Not every deal will fall into a cookie cutter format keep your eyes open…and your mind even more so. 3) Not every tactic or idea works in the same in every part of the country. ...
  1 day ago

• Opposite – Different -Or…

  
  The Pipeline — Authority: 104
  Suitable is Better than Different or Opposite! Whenever you ask a group of sales people what they would like to learn to do better, they always have “differentiate” near or at the top of the list.  Sadly when most products have over an 80% overlap in their features, differentiating may not be what it is cracked ...
  1 day ago

• Property Excitement - Property In Barrhead

  
  EBYX Center — Authority: 111
  It seems the household market shifts at times. This is the all purpose business you can count on. Property owners can additionally get a mortgage, or re mortgage a building if need be. If you would like to ride the property world in 2012, let Penny Lane Homes instruct you correctly. Read this for more about property ...
  2 days ago

• Radcliffe admits being drunk during “Harry Potter” scenes

  
  Black Gossip, Celebrity Urban Entertainment, Hip Hop Hollywood News - JohnJohnSaidIt.com — Authority: 139
  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Daniel Radcliffe admitted he was drunk while filming some scenes for the “Harry Potter” movies during a period in his life where he was drinking “nightly,” the young star said in an interview. “I have a very addictive personality. It was a problem. People with problems like that are ...
  2 days ago

• Life Lessons from the Na Pali Coast Trail in Kauai, Hawaii

  
  8 Women Dream — Authority: 414
  The sign said, “Hazardous Cliff.” Ground may break off at any time, it warned, causing “serious injury or death.” “Stay back from the edge!” it warned. I would have happily stayed away from the edge, had that been an option, but the paths we were navigating on the trail were only six to eighteen inches ...
  2 days ago

• Getting Diminished Value For Your Repaired Car

  
  urbanicemiami — Authority: 110
  You’re going to be qualified to receive reduced market value in the event your automobile was repaired as a result of being in an vehicle accident. Diminished value will be the amount of money your vehicle drops in market value given that it was a wreck. When you go to trade in your car or truck, the dealer or new ...
  2 days ago

• SUMMARY OF STATE FARM CAR INSURANCE

  
  Latest News - World News & Hot News — Authority: 480
  Basic Summary: State Farm automobile word is famous as positively a single of a oldest, founded in 1922 in Illinois. From a really substructure they have taken a single of a heading purposes between a list of most appropriate automobile word companies. Once they have reached a tip with offered automobile word they ...
  2 days ago

• The Sophistication of an Urban Loft Lifestyle

  
  Stagetecture — Authority: 116
  Entry #938, February 6, 2012 In two days I will be traveling to New York City for Brizo’s Fashion Design Event . For the last few weeks I have been salivating over Selling New York on HGTV and thought about how it would be to live in an urban loft . While it isn’t for everyone, the industrial finishes, exposed ...
  3 days ago

Comments about selling