Sales
November 2, 2013
The Way To Sequence Pricing In Proposals
I am on a little bit of a pricing strategy kick this week. In addition to removing decimals and dollar signs, consider changing the sequence of your proposal to include...
November 1, 2013
A More Persuasive Way To Display Prices
Buyers have a negative association to dollar signs and decimals. Even if it is for a fraction of a second, $39.00 feels more negative to consumers than 39 does. That's...
October 25, 2013
Place What You Want To Sell On The Right
The left side of the human brain performs, among other things, story telling. Not just story telling to others, but story telling to ourselves. When you look at that pretty...
October 24, 2013
The Danger Of Quoting Price Ranges
In this episode of On A Roll, Mike Michalowicz explains how quoting price ranges set both the vendor and the client up for disappointment. Instead of quoting price ranges, quote...
October 1, 2013
Most Pessimistic Estimates Are Way Too Optimistic
Entrepreneurs like to use pessimistic numbers, because they prepare us for the absolute "worst case." Alas, we use flawed pessimistic numbers. The real worst case is inevitably way worse than...
September 29, 2013
How To Measure The Health Of Your Business Instantly
I suspect you don't check your income statement every day. You likely don't check it weekly either. Maybe you check it monthly. Maybe. But probably not. For many entrepreneurs the...
August 27, 2013
Don't Quote Price Ranges
Don't quote price ranges. When you tell a prospect that your offering falls somewhere between X (the lowest price) and Y (the highest price), you both lose. The prospect will...
August 26, 2013
Make Your Clients Work For It
In this episode of On A Roll, Mike Michalowicz explains how to increase loyalty from customers by making them do some of the work.
August 6, 2013
How Loss Motivates People To Buy
More people buy my books after I speak, than before. It's what you would expect, of course. But why is it? The same number of people are there before and...
July 29, 2013
The Little Things Are What Customers Care About
In this episode of On A Roll, Mike Michalowicz explains why you need to excel at the little things. Customers don't notice the big things you do right, because they...



