Author: Elinor Stutz

Elinor Stutz, CEO of Smooth Sale, was honored by Open View Labs with inclusion in their international list of “Top 25 Sales Influencers for 2012.” Elinor authored the International Best-Selling book, “Nice Girls DO Get the Sale: Relationship Building That Gets Results”, Sourcebooks and the best selling career book, “HIRED! How to Use Sales Techniques to Sell Yourself On Interviews”, Career Press. She provides team sales training, private coaching and highly acclaimed inspirational keynotes for conferences. Elinor is available for consultation. Kred ranks Stutz as a Top 1% influencer; CEO World Magazine named Stutz as one of “The brightest sales minds to follow on Twitter”. She speaks and consults worldwide.
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Turn Stress into Relief

Building your brand, researching jobs, and seeking new clients are natural stress builders. When we allow stress to overtake our more relaxed style, it adversely affects our marketing communication messaging that we put out into the world.

Following a very bad economy many people are truly stressed out about acquiring a new job. “Carol” shared …

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Brand Integrity Brings Increased Business

Upon becoming an entrepreneur, I was advised to build my brand and to become as consistent as a box of cereal. Upon catching my attention, I immediately asked, “How do I build my brand?”

In my opinion, three elements are key for successfully building your brand:

1. Take some time to reflect back on your…
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3 Keys to Create Increased Success in the New Year!

The transition to entrepreneurship is not an easy one. Personally, I was accustomed to having a team around me with whom I could confide challenges, ask for advice and discuss new ideas to improve my selling effort. I found being a solo-preneur lonely and filled with much uncertainty.

Through the years I endured many trial …

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Scheduling and Rescheduling: Pointers to Build Relationships

Hectic is the only way to describe everyone’s schedule today. Those still working are doing the job of at least 3-4 people, which affects interview and sales appointments. Entrepreneurs are trying to stay above water. So many have over-extended themselves. Consequently, rescheduling has become a necessity more than ever.

However, some people choose to ignore …

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Build Relationships With Thank You

As an entrepreneur your goal should always be to further develop repeat business, referrals and testimonials. Job seekers and those who wish to further their careers need to foster past connections. Sometimes though we fall down on building relationships or even remaining in touch.

Regroup and reconnect

The holidays are a perfect time to regroup …