Job Search Tips for Sales Professionals


Sales pros

Each industry has a variety of specific requirements that an employee has to meet, and while a professional sales person may not always be considered an “employee,” depending on the company or organization with which s/he is associated, there are industry-specific requirements which they must meet also.

That having been said, sales professionals in search of positions in their industry of choice must always be as prepared as possible in such a competitive environment as professional sales. So, to assist you in preparing for a highly sought-after and rewarding position – including a confident and effective interview – the information provided on this page might be of some value.

Research

In order to be prepared on your interview, you should learn important facts about the company beforehand.

  • The internet is one of the best ways to search for information; and most companies provide their own informational websites. Study the content of the company’s website; know their histories, goals, and information about the top executives.
  • By using search engines on the Internet, you could also obtain news about such things as progress the company has made, its past projects and issues, and organizations in which it has a membership, or to which it makes regular contributions.
  • Review the stock market chart of the company. Since majority of shares are publicly traded, you could examine recent stock prices and learn its successes and difficulties of its market performances over the past years. Knowing the strengths and weaknesses of a company will help you in the interview.
  • Get as much information as possible about its competitors. When you read articles about the market space, you will find out who are the leaders in that particular market and you will then find that company’s competitors. Having this knowledge could help you during the interview since you will be able to intelligently discuss why that company is better (more appealing?) than its competitors.

Attitude

Having the right attitude towards the interview and the job itself would go a long way in ensuring the position is yours.

  • Majority of successful sales professionals have a unique energy that you can feel. They command a presence and has the unique ability to hold an audience’s attention. Be energetic about the job and interview.
  • Be enthusiastic also, since it is said that enthusiasm is contagious. Because you have done your research about the company and its competitors, those tasked with interviewing you will appreciate your enthusiasm and interest about the position.

Preparation

The position you desire could be yours as long as you show up prepared.

  • Create a presentation by researching the products and services of the company. Be prepared to speak directly and intelligently about the company’s products/services, activities, industry and leadership.
  • Provide statistics and industry related facts in your presentation. This goes to show that, not only are you enthusiastic about the job, but you are also aware of the industry as a whole.
  • An undeniable fact about a position or career in sales is that, it is numbers-oriented. If you are asked about your ability to deal with numbers, simply provide them with production reports, past employment lists or a W-2 form of your yearly earnings.

By successfully performing these basic steps, your coveted sales job could be yours in just a handshake a broad smile and reassuringly confident attitude.

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Monetizing Your Traffic for Maximum Profit


Customers generated from traffic

Establishing your own E-commerce site is not like what it used to be. There are thousands of competitive sites doing everything possible to get a bigger share of the profit pie. So every scheme, method and technique you can find to augment your sales must be utilized in order to derive any benefit or achieve what can reasonably be considered success.

We obviously have to admit to ourselves that most of us are in it for the money, otherwise why would we go about wasting our time, effort and money just for the fun of it. Of course we also must understand that while some of us take a measured approach, many others would not wait very long to see their profits. They would never take things lightly or take the measured approach because they are bent on grabbing an ever bigger portion of the profit pie.

So what is this commodity that gives any one business a competitive edge over another? Customers! It is common knowledge that without customers we have no business, because without customers to buy our product or service we can’t get sales which is ultimately the fuel that powers the engine of your business, mine and any other.

In Internet terms, large numbers of customers are generally referred to as traffic which represents all the people that get a chance to see what you have to offer, and it is therefore reasonable to conclude that the more people who see your products/services, the more people might decide to buy them.

Seldom does anybody put up an E-commerce without expecting to make a profit, especially when there is startup capital that needs to be recovered. With a consistent traffic flow, we may at least have a fighting chance to achieve that profitability, and monetizing your traffic would optimize your chances of making the best out of it.

Making money out of your traffic

The best and most proven method of making a profit out of your traffic is using advertising. The Internet generates hundreds of thousands upon hundreds of thousands of traffic streams everyday and most of them are searching for something. While some are just looking for information there is also a good percentage that is shopping for something that they need.

The Internet has proven to be a very reliable source of finding what was once deemed to be a very unsearchable products and in this respect, the internet has made the world a smaller place; you can advertise a product from the depths of Istanbul and still find a buyer from the center of Philadelphia or Beijing.

Generating traffic is not an easy task though. You have to contend with a great number of sites to generate a reasonably satisfactory traffic flow; but if done correctly this could open up a Pandora’s Box of possibilities with one of the benefits derived is the monetization of your traffic flow.

So, to get to the core of it the more traffic you generate the more likely you are considered a desirable, desirable, in a sense that a good traffic flowing site is easily convertible to profit. Basically traffic equals profit. Advertising is the name of the game; with a good advertising scheme you can use your traffic flow to your advantage.

When you have above average traffic you’ll most likely have an above average potential to grab what can be considered a respectable share of customers that are willing to pour money into your coffers. Other than those who will buy from you directly, there are also those that can be redirected to sponsored links that are willing to pay you for a sizable portion of the traffic that you have generated.

This scheme is called “pay-per-click”. With every click a visitor of your site makes on an advertised link you will be paid. The more traffic you generate and the more clicks that occurs would result in more profits.

Traffic from affiliate programs

Another method of monetizing your traffic is the utilization of affiliate programs. You can link up with other tried and tested sites and online companies and monetize your traffic by having a percentage of sales generated by traffic coming from your site. The basic idea is, traffic generated from your site will go to another site which can offer a product or service that you do not carry. Many programs can keep track and make records of transactions that was made possible because of this site linkage.

When purchases are made by customers that sent by your site to their site you get a percentage of that sale. Affiliate programs would give you the benefit of monetizing your traffic without the actual need to carry or promote a certain product.

There are so many ways and methods to monetize your traffic with the only requirement being a bit of hard work and the desire to successfully launch a profit-generating site. The Internet is a veritable source of information, tips and guides which are offered everywhere on how to monetize your traffic and make your site a good profit producer. Ultimately a traffic-generating site is a profit-producing site.