"We have an effective set of actions steps - a Marketing and Prospecting System - that we follow consistently to bring in fresh prospects.": True or False (for your business)?

A marketing and selling system is a set of activities and behaviors that you are committed to doing consistently over time.

With such a system:

• You can accurately forecast and predict your revenues, profits and cash-flow months in advance.
• You have control over the amount of revenues and sales you generate.
• Your month-to-month sales and revenues remain consistent so that you can avoid fluctuations in your sales volume.
• You save time and minimize wasted efforts.
• You can stay on track to the goals you have set for your business.
• You can focus your efforts and energies to the end result you expect.
• You can duplicate what works and eliminate what does not.
• You can teach the system to new employees, executives, partners and buyers of your business and continue to have the sales results you expect.
• You can develop your own System by trial and error. Or you can get one from those who experts at such systems.

If you choose to adopt a system that was developed by the experts, just make sure that it allows you to generate sales without making the traditional sales moves - closing, presenting, bait-and-switching - taught in traditional sales seminars.  

Instead, opt for something that allows you to smell, look and sound like a trusted advisor, not a killer salesperson!

Also look for something that allows you to preserve your sense of pride, self-worth and esteem without being a “beggar” in the marketplace.