Proven Strategies to boost Sales and generate More Revenue

Today, competition is more intense than it used to be. It’s all too
easy for your company to be endangered if you don’t differentiate yourself from the competition and don’t have the most efficient methods of selling.

And just like the title of this article, you will learn the exact same strategies that the highest performing businesses use to generate massive sales and grow their income. There is a clearly defined process to selling, and that’s what you’ll take away at the end of this article.

Prospecting or Getting New Leads
Prospecting the potential client is the first step in the sales process. But before you start marketing you; ve got to know who the exact buyer will be. In essence, you’re not just thinking of the best strategies to use in getting prospects to sign up but also understanding the buyer’s journey.

You must always identify with the challenges they face along with that journey, and whatever roadblocks are preventing them from achieving their desired results, which gap your products or services tend to close.
So you re looking at the lead generation process with both eyes - one on your marketing arsenal and the other on the buyer, from the moment he or she is aware of your product to the point of deciding to make that purchase.
So you want to make sure you study the market carefully to understand the three stages every buyer passes through, before saying yes or no, and adding paint a picture (of these) in your content marketing, ad, sales call, or face-to-face conversation.

Dissect (or break down) your prospects into groups
Who are these prospects? Have you met them? Do they all have the same
willingness or readiness to buy?
A very good product that distinguishes several buyers at different levels is
₦1,000 Naira phone recharge card. Some mobile phone users will buy normally because they need to recharge their mobile lines. For others, they are only interested when they need to subscribe to data. As there are different reasons why people will buy a particular product or pay for a specific service, so your prospect(s) qualify based on their; needs, interests, budget (money), or decisions.
Therefore, in assessing a potential prospect, ask questions in these four areas;
I) Needs: How strong are their needs?
II). Timing: How urgent are the needs? Are they desperate enough to solve
these needs? How desperate?
III). Budget: Can they pay for the product or service? Do they have the
finances to buy?
IV). Decision-making process: Do they have the power to make the decision
or must they talk to someone before making the purchase?

Sell by adding value
In the first two stages, you’re thinking and planning how to prospect with the
potential client. The next three stages are when you execute.
By adding value, you want the potential client to taste the icing before the actual cake. For example, if you’re trying to sell software, you can add value by doing the following;
● guiding them through the operation of your software.
● doing a demo presentation at their office.
● train them on a particular area of the software.
By doing this you’re adding value in advance to selling the actual product or
service.
Close the deal
A Harvard Business report suggests three common barriers Sales reps face to
closing any sale.
1. Talks that drag on for months, even years, with no end in sight.
2. An unwillingness by one party or both to make their best offer.
3. Tough competition that makes your counterpart reluctant to close with you.
And so, in getting the buyer to your side of the negotiation table, there are some techniques you need to practice.
● Learn about the potential client before engaging them.
● Listen more than you speak.
● Enter into the negotiation with a price you are confident about.
● Use the time to your advantage.
● Avoid being emotional during negotiation.
Close more sales
Most sales professionals go to sleep after closing the deal, not understanding
the need to get referrals and repeat business. That’s why this step is the most
important.
Sales don’t stop after you closed the client. As a sales rep, you don’t close in after you meet your target or sold to a high-paying client.
Therefore, to close more sales, you need to have a customer referral program.
The goal of a referral program is to bring in new customers. You can do this by
asking customers to think of people who might benefit from your product or
service then recommending them. Sales reps or teammates can then keep in touch with these leads because not only are they a good fit for your business, but they also know something about your product or service. Because they’ve been referred by someone they know,
they have a source that can vouch for your company’s honesty and customer
service.

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TEACHING MY CHILD GOOD FINANCIAL HABITS

Teaching children and teenagers about money could help them establish an active sense of good financial habits for the future. Letting your children develop good financial habits, helps them face and be ready for the financial affairs of the future and to know the role and advantages of budgeting, savings and investment.
Given how essential financial capabilities are to navigating life, it’s alarming that the school system doesn’t teach children about money.
As a parent, you should teach your child important financial skills.
Beth Kobliner says children as young as three years old can grasp financial concepts like saving and spending. And a report by researchers at the University of Cambridge commissioned by the United Kingdom’s Money Advice Service revealed that kids’ money habits are formed by age 7.
“The sooner parents start taking advantage of everyday teachable money moments (for example, give a six-year-old $2 and let her choose which fruit to buy), the better off our kids will be. Parents are the number one influence on their children’s financial behaviors, so it’s up to us to raise a generation of mindful consumers, investors, savers, and givers,” she says.

Budgeting
Budgeting means creating a plan to spend money. The spending plan is called a budget. Creating this spending plan allows you to ascertain beforehand whether you will have enough money to do the things you need to do or would like to do (to settle bills, or buy some things). Budgeting simply means balancing your expenses with your income.

Savings
Savings means money you set aside for future use rather than spending immediately. Along with the benefits of saving up for future use , delaying an impulse purchase also helps you decide whether it is something you really need, or something you will regret shortly after buying.

Investment
Investment is the act of putting out money in order to gain a profit. Investments are things we put our money to help it grow.

How to teach your child Saving, budgeting and Investment
Create three jars for your child – each labeled “Saving,” “Spending” and “Sharing” respectively. Every time your child receives money, whether for doing chores or from a birthday or as a gift, tell the child to divide the money equally among the jars. Have him or her use the spending jar for small purchases, like candy or something inexpensive that she wants. Money in the sharing jar can go to someone your child knows who needs it or be used to donate to a friend’s cause. The saving jar should be for more expensive items and for a long period of time.

Give your child some money, like N2000, in a supermarket and have her make choices about what cereal to buy, within the specifications of what you need, to give them the exposure to making choices with money.

Have your child set a longer-term goal for something costlier than the toys she may have been saving for. “Those sorts of exchanges, called opportunity costs — what are the things you have to forgo to save money — is a very important thing to talk about. These days, children are reluctant about saving because they want to buy stuff, but thinking of what long-term goals are and what they’re having to give up shows that it’s a good decision,” says Kobliner. For example, she says, if your child has a habit of buying a snack after school every day, she may decide she’d rather put that money toward an iPod.

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How to turn a simple idea into a million dollar business

How to turn a simple idea into a million dollar business

How to turn a simple idea into a million dollar business

RAIISING CAPITAL 2020

The $1,000,000 African Entrepreneurship Awards will open its gates to receive applications on the 1st of March, 2018. That year, applications are welcome from innovative ideas and from sport entrepreneurship, which replaces environment and education categories from last year.

What is Innovation?

The website of AEA describes Innovation as a key to solving pressing issues and creating value in Africa. It means introducing a new technology, new business model or attempting to solve a problem that’s never been solved before. The Award seeks businesses that innovate to create jobs and improve lives in Africa.

Other available funding opportunities in areas like agribusiness, fin-tech, health, manufacturing, services etc include

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  1. Bank of industry graduate entrepreneurship fund (2billion naira)
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  4. Aspire small business fund for businesses in Niger Delta
  5. Mest entrepreneurs in training (eits)
  6. Sinapis entrepreneurship training
  7. The Baobab Network Opportunities for African Entrepreneurs
  8. 2018 Africa Energy Ideas Competition

If your business idea/existing business fits into any of these two categories, now is the time to start preparing your proposal and business plan. We recommend that you join our training this month on Raising Capital will enable you become sufficiently prepared to apply and raise your chances of winning not only this grant, but other investment opportunities.

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Youth Business Academy provides Youths, Teens, and Pre-teens with basic business development and entrepreneurial skills needed to grow business. Through our program, the youths will learn to develop and push substantial entrepreneurial ideas and take steps to expand those ideas. We teach youth the capacity not only to start companies but also to think creatively and ambitiously. They learn to be innovative and doers, makers and cutting-edge thinkers that the world needs.

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HOW TO APPROACH AN INVESTOR

How do you reach out to an investor?

Assume you found a contact detail, perhaps an email address and then you decide to try what is called a cold call, but this time, via email.

What do you say in your mail?

Never forget, investors a pretty busy people who may get all sorts of unsolicited emails,

Therefore, you mail must be a good pitch, you have to make an impression in the shortest possible time or else your email will be treated as junk, or even spam.

So, you have less than 60 seconds to make a good impression, or he/she will junk or delete your email.

Typical questions entrepreneurs ask is
1). How do I reach out to potential investors?
2). What exactly do I say?
3). What is the ideal length of the email?
4). You are reading this post today because you have probably been in this situation before

And I am providing real-world answers to all the questions above

Firstly, even before you put pen to paper, well in this case before you put fingers to key board, start with a detailed research on the investor, find out which industry they invest in, do they work in your industry?

Come on, it would not make sense to ask someone who focuses solely on fin tech to put money in your Agro business, except of course your know that they may be looking to switch,- that information will still come as a result of research. Your research can be a simple internet search or speaking to a few people.

Next, you must find out how this investor works, is are they motivated by profit? research and development? social impact or policies?

Another important thing to do is to find out when the investor invests, do they run program cycles or are they investing all year round?

Here are 5 Key points to note when sending the email

1) Establish a connection by possibly mentioning something about what they do that is relevant to your business.
2) Talk about your business/idea , make sure you focus on the benefits and then the results also talk about the growth potential
3) A specific call to action would be an appropriate third note, you could ask them to check out your work and let you know what they think.
4) Follow up on your email, follow up but do not be a bother, always be courteous and professional.
5) Persistency will give you a response, it could be a ‘’yes’’, a ‘’no’’ or a ‘’maybe’’. The no may come with an explanation , and that is the feedback you are looking for!

These tips are the kind that work, raising capital is not about trial and error, but a systematic approach to achieving what you need.

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