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Hard Sell Vs. Selling a solution
Here's the thing about selling. Nobody wants to be sold to. What people do want are solutions.
Do you take the time to show customers to show a solution to their problem or even a fact that your product is successfully solving problems for a particular problems other customers are having? Selling a product is lot easy when a solution is attached to it. Hard selling is lot harder and you are depending on your sales skills more than the strength of your product or understanding of customer needs. People like to feel that they are in control when dealing with sales consultant and not the other way, so are you doing all it takes to understand your customer's need and selling them a solution?Win Aimersoft Video Converter Software OR Get Your Logo Designed for Free
We at SoftwareAndTools.com want to share the goodness of our deals as much as we can. For this, we need to be able to get in touch with as many people as well. Good vendors Aimersoft & Logo Designers has given us the liberty to give away a deal for free to those who can help us spread the word about SoftwareAndTools.com and the product itself. The more you share, the more your chances to win! You can share it 1 time or you can share it 10 times, your wish. What do you have to do?
- Follow us on Twitter at @SoftwareTools
- Share this tweet "Great video converter for 41% off- Aimersoft Total Media Converter for Mac OR Video Converter Pro for Windows @ http://bit.ly/aL1VoB"for Aimersoft Deal OR this tweet "Get Professional Logo designed for $60 http://bit.ly/cW0Pi1//Logo & Stationery for $150 http://bit.ly/9XPR4a from @SoftwareTools" for Logo Design Deal
- Increase your chances by sharing both the deals. The more you share, the more your chances to win.
Winners will be declared as soon as the deal finishes.Good Luck!Deals are On at SoftwareAndTools.com
We have launched SoftwareAndTools.com on 1 September, 2010. This post is to summarize what SoftwareAndTools.com is and to highlight the recent deals and the value it brings to various people.
What is SoftwareAndTools.com?
SoftwareAndTools.com is a site providing value added software and web product deals at exceptional prices while bringing more market exposure and sales to the product vendors. The deals will be for a set time and can either be individual products or bundle of few products together.
Using campaign-oriented marketing, we will take the deals to the right customers thus bringing value to both Customers and Vendors.
Recent Deals
We launched the site with 4 products. Two of the products are Aimersoft’s Video Converter and the rest are logo and stationery design deals.
We capture videos on various recording devices these days. From our fancy smart phones or HD recorders. We buy audio and video in various formats or we have a DRM protected DVD which we want to be convert in a different format. Some of us want the capability to play our captured videos in multiple formats so that we can watch them from a place and device of our choice. Some of us might want to remove DRM on those Audible audio formats or from DVD’s which we want to watch on our latest iPhone4. No problems, Aimersoft’s powerful and fast Video Converter are at the rescue.
Aimersoft’s Video converter software are available for Mac & Windows version. With nearly 100 predefined settings for various formats and devices, the software is easy to use and can create user-defined video conversion profiles. While both software provides the functionality to rip DVD’s, Windows version of the software offers the functionality to remove DRM protection from audio and video. Both software provide the functionality to edit, trim, watermark videos. Use this tool to convert videos for your mobile player or make them web ready.
This software is idle for anybody wanting to convert audio and videos into various formats. Bloggers and professional writers can take their existing recorded videos, edit them, add watermark and upload them on their own website or sites such as Youtube. There is 41% off on this software and available for only $29.
Logo & Stationery Design Deals
Logos becomes part of our identity. They become part of our branding strategy. To have a logo that conveys your brand message is very important.
When a business, blog, startup, website is just starting out, budgets are tight and we want to see how we spent our money. Before we start designing the website or a business card, first thing we have to design is a branded logo. Not everyone is creative nor a designer and hence we have to outsource the designing to someone else. If you are web savvy, you can go to 99 Designs or similar websites to get your logos designed or ask a designer friend to do it for you.
Doing market research and from our own experiences we found that getting a logo designed was an expensive affair. So, what did we do? We got you deals for logo design deals. Get professional logo designed for as less as $60 to getting a logo designed with unlimited revision and customized stationery for $150. It can’t get better than this! [of course if it’s free - it can]
These deals are not for me!
No problems. Not everything is meant to be for everyone. You can always forward these deals on to someone else who can possibly benefit from it.
We are working with vendors to bring you Windows, Mac, Web based services and products in the future. You can follow us by subscribing to our newsletter, Twitter, subscribe to our blog or Facebook. Alternatively you can contact us at info @ softwareandtools.com or vendors @ softwareandtools.com.
World today gets Tejas junior
Baby boy born today. Both mum and baby doing fine.Congratulations to Munjal and people behind LIke.com
via like.comI wanted to save this note in my archives here. I like what Munjal has written in these brief lines.
Get More Readers on Your Blog - Part 2
This is a continuation post. So few weeks back I had a great time attending Problogger Event in Melbourne. Not only I had a chance to meet interesting people but had to chance to listen to successful bloggers as Chris Garrett, Yaro Starak, Collis Ta'eed, Pip Lincolne and Darren Rowse who are making their share of money blogging and doing that passionately.
You can find notes from this day and other details on the Problogger site. If I had to summarise from my learnings and from the event on ways to get more readers, here a list:- Be passionate about what your topic of interest is [if you are doing it for fun or money]
- Be persistent and disciplined
- Create Excellent Content [this will get you more traffic and recognition in the long run]
- Network passionately with readers, bloggers and competitors
Re-reading what I have written above sounds generic and seems to be applicable elsewhere too but I think these are the key elements. If you take any of the famous blogs which makes money or not these steps are followed there, some more than the others.If you had to write 5 steps to get more readers, what would your list consist?Get in first and select an appropriate username
What do you think of the username tejaaa when you see it first on your screen? What thoughts come to your mind? What do you think of the person who holds that username? Some of the thoughts that might go through my mind on seeing such a name are: -- Unprofessional
- Not sure if the person with such a name has a lot to offer
- Does that even mean something? What's the story behind that name? [I only think of this question if I have known the person with the username or seen his work]
And yet, I myself am stuck with the username tejaaa on few of the famous services.We all recognise the importance of a good/professional email account and when Gmail launched a lot of us were running fast to catch the "professional" username. I even had people offering me upto US $100 just to get my gmail username which is firstname.lastname@gmail.com [which ofcourse I did not sell].But till today I still do not have an appropriate username for a lot of other services I use such as Delicious, Facebook, etc, etc. I was not late in signing up for these services but I think I did not give enough importance of thinking about my username for these services and took the pride in keeping my known old username of tejaaa. When a new service starts a lot of time we don't know and we don't think how main stream the site or service will go and hence you do not put in a lot of though.My story starts in mid 90's when I first created my first email account on Hotmail. By then I was late to the party and all the possible good email combinations were taken out. And funny enough in rush and excitement I decided to settle for the name tejaaa in front of the email domain at that time. 'Tej' came from first part of my name and 'aaa' came from the fact that I was always aiming for excellence and thus wanting to aim for AAA's all the time. Now I am a person who likes to have certain degree of structure and uniformity in all I do. So since then do reduce confusion for myself and to maintain uniformity of names across different services I always selected the username tejaaa when signing up for a service [don't we all do that?]. And this went to the point that even when my firstname+lastname combination were available as username, I was just opting for tejaaa so my friends from other services will be able to search for me easily. This was not bothering me till I started reflecting on this and all of a sudden my own name starting irritating me a lot.So much so that I updated my username to an appropriate name on LinkedIn and Twitter today [there was a fair bit of pain involved in getting Twitter Lists working again on 3rd party tools]. And then there are services such as Facebook and Delicious that will not give me that option at all [such is life]. So key lessons learned from this are: -- Always select an appropriate and meaningful name, no matter what the service is [exceptions may apply such as for porn sites etc.]
- Get in first and get the name, you never know when you will use that service
- It's painful to change your Twitter names from your business card once they are printed, so follow rule no. 1 & 2
Do you have such a story where you are stuck with your old username on Twitter or any other similar service and you regret now?Get More Readers on Your Blog - Part 1
I am just preparing myself for the Problogger Event in Melbourne tomorrow. I was asking myself as to what I am going to learn tomorrow. Will I be learning something drastically different? I hope so but may be not. Although I don't have a famous blog but I have been blogging for quite a few years, now on and off. I have heard and read some topics over and over again [It is a different thing that I haven't applied them consistently]. In my view I am attending the stories to listen to the stories and experiences and learn something from it.Now as I embark on my new project, blogging and using my blog as a tool is an important part as my strategy. So I decided to spent exactly 3 minutes in answering a question "How do I get more readers?" and below is 11 points that I came up with.
- Decide on topics of your interest
- Write Good Content [which adds value to you and will add value to your reader, even if it's 1 reader]
- Write often, write more and put in the quality
- Spark conversations
- Respond to comments
- Link to other social media sites
- Write and create conversations about others
- Invite others to write on your blog/Interview others
- Do guest posts on other blogs
- Expand your social circle in the field of your interest. Network fast and network well.
- Be disciplined and repeat everything above.
After I attend the event tomorrow, I intend to post about my learnings, so expect a second part of this post.Just Write!
"Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on." Louis L'AmourThis is more of a reminder for myself than anybody else. With some much information shared everywhere using different streams I fail to write. My excuse is I do not have anything worthwhile to share which hasn't be shared 1000 times before.
But if I write and I write more, I will be able to bring up my own perspective on a post even though that topic is posted 1000 times before. So keep writing.
This weekend belongs to Dyson
I come to my knees when it comes to Customer Service and Customer Experience and I experienced both when dealing with Dyson this weekend.
image credit : - srboisvertIn Australia, I haven't come across many service providers and manufacturers which are as good as Apple in terms of their Customer Service. Now I have to add Dyson next to them. I have a three year old vacuum and the bearing in the turbine head has gone bad. I called up Dyson to get a new replacement and happily pay them ~$130 for it. Guess what, not only I got hints and tips to improve the performance of my vacuum cleaner by a pleasant customer service rep, but before I knew it she had organised a replacement turbine to be sent to me for free!What got me to love Dyson? It was not the free stuff, it was the customer reps politeness and willingness to listen to me and help me out and provide me more than I asked me. She even wanted me to call them again if I had other problems. This is something that not many companies are doing this days. She surprised me!The result, made my day, * * * * * stars for Dyson, I knew they had a great product, now I know they have a great team as well. Now the little salesman in me is going to tell this story to ~100 people and even if 1 person buys a Dyson product because of my story, it will all be worth my time. -
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Hello! Tejas Patel's is a purpose driven, business minded, technology enthusiast and ambitious but nice person. Guy with B+ attitude and a budding entrepreneur who enjoys independence.
