Use these copywriting tips to improve your marketing messages and ensure you don't lose sales or money on your marketing investments.
A borrowed book is
not a lost sale in many cases.
A pirated copy is
NOT a lost sale.
This way you can keep your book published with the CreateSpace ISBN on Amazon so you don't lose your sales momentum.
A borrow is
not a lost sale.
For the most part, a borrowed book isn't a lost sale.
But eBooks are
not losing sales or momentum, they are being read (and paid for) more than ever!
Which price points are most effective, and data showing that $ 4.99 has become more viable (if you're charging $ 2.99 or $ 3.99, you might
not lose sales by going to $ 4.99).
In an open letter to librarians explaining its switch to limit the number of check - outs a library can offer on an e-book, HarperCollins said that its previous policy of «selling e-books to libraries in perpetuity, if left unchanged, would undermine the emerging e-book eco-system, hurt the growing e-book channel, place additional pressure on physical bookstores, and in the end lead to a decrease in book sales and royalties paid to authors.9 Similarly, Simon & Schuster's executive vice president and chief digital officer Elinor Hirschhorn says that the company does not make its e-books available to libraries at all because «[w] e're concerned that authors and publishers are made whole by library e-lending and that they aren't losing sales that they might have made in another channel.»
Item Locator — If out of stocks do happen, don't lose the sale.
And by carrying fluorescent fixtures, you will
not lose the sales for replacement bulbs.
Don't lose a sale because you didn't want to spend the money.
Not exact matches
As a result of Starbucks» quick, forceful response, the company does
not appear to have
lost any
sales.
According to Intuit, any small business that doesn't accept credit cards is
losing out on $ 7,000 in
sales every year.
Sure, the lovey dovey holiday hasn't
lost its momentum — in fact, Valentine's Day
sales reached an all - time high of $ 19.7 billion in 2016.
Have three people test your site to make sure you don't
lose more than half of the
sales that are attempted.
Salespeople who do all the talking during a presentation
not only bore the prospect, but they also generally
lose the
sale.
It doesn't want to appeal to drivers like me forever, as it would
lose sales.
But he estimates the cost of hiring a bad consultant can be in the millions, considering
not just salary but also missed
sales and
lost clients.
Though most states theoretically require consumers to track and pay
sales tax on purchases even if the tax isn't collected by the vendor, that rule has gone largely unenforced, leading to billions in
lost revenue for cities and states.
If you're an entrepreneur, you must learn that most
sales are
lost over objections you never hear,
not some obvious and spoken objection like the price.
They
lost a $ 20,000 furniture
sale, their main income, because of a policy that stated they wouldn't take a return on a $ 400 carpet sitting on the floor.
An appealing website design is important, but you can't
lose sight of what your website is really for: to convert traffic into lead - form submissions, phone calls, physical - location visits, contact - form submissions and
sales.
«If your employees don't know that, they might be price sensitive when making
sales and
lose business.
And this doesn't take into account long - tail
sales, and
sales that would otherwise have been
lost either to piracy or the multi-billion-dollar used game market.
Most companies don't really know how much profit they're
losing when their
sales reps offer discounts.
If you collect cash for your
sales but don't pay all of your bills, you could think you've earned a profit when, in reality, you may be
losing money.
While most publications report growing digital ad
sales, that figure does
not come close to making up for
lost print revenue.
He was
losing money almost every month because the reps weren't making enough new
sales to replace the corporate contracts that had ended.
If you waste five minutes of your prospect's time droning on about a product feature or service offering that isn't going to positively affect the company's primary business need right now, chances are high that you'll
lose the
sale.
The FDA's intent with Canada Drugs could be to restrict
sales of erectile dysfunction drugs, appeasing the pharmaceutical lobby angry about
lost sales of popular products, without targeting the
sale of heart medication and similar life - saving drugs so as
not to punish low - income Americans.
And we are
not talking just about the recent rise in lipstick
sales at Estée Lauder, which is considered by some to be a hot - red indicator of economic trouble (at least on slow news days) on the horizon because consumers tend to turn to less expensive indulgences when
losing confidence in the future.
Your
sales team is
losing business because they don't have the key customer / product information they need when they're selling on the road
And when a fast - food restaurant can't do the «fast» part right, it starts to
lose sales, which explains McDonald's prolonged financial doldrums.
Canada's Research In Motion (RIM) has
lost a contract dispute over the use of Nokia patents in a case which could halt
sales of its BlackBerry phones if it does
not reach a deal to pay royalties to the Finnish company.
You stand to
lose sales and trust in your brand if your product doesn't work the way it's supposed to.
Digital Check, of Northbook, Illinois, a check - scanning equipment manufacturer
lost $ 500,000 in
sales to competitors overseas because it could
not secure a line of credit from the Ex-Im Bank.
As MPR notes, the city's analysis is weak
not only because it looks at just two years» worth of data, but because of one crucial detail: that during the
lost 2004 - 05 NHL season, St. Paul actually increased its
sales tax intake over the previous season.
The group that
loses out the most from the
sale of residential real estate to foreign owners is everyone who works in the Vancouver area and earns Vancouver wages, but has to try to find housing in a market distorted by buyers who don't work in the Vancouver area and earn Vancouver wages.
The front page of Fridayâ $ ™ s National Post reported, «The Conservatives will encourage the five provinces that do
not have harmonized
sales taxes — Ontario, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, P.E.I. and Manitoba — to take part by setting up a $ 5 - billion trust fund that would compensate them for
lost revenue over the phase - in period.»
When you want something you don't need and can't currently afford, save money, look for bargains or wait for
sales deals — but never risk
losing your home by borrowing against your equity for things you can live without.
Your salespeople quickly
lose relevance, because they don't have the means to create real value through the
sales process and to justify the time from busy executives on the buyer side.
That's why during a recession, you want a lot of cash, cash equivalents, or access to money in some way at your disposal in the event that you
lose your job, the stock market crashes and you don't want to sell your shares at depressed prices, you suffer a pay cut of some sort, are disabled, or you own a business and
sales start to drop.
While it wasn't enough to significantly damage Tesco in the long term, they
lost sales, even though Tesco had some of the best customer loyalty programs around.
It is estimated that if you are
not connecting with all those on your database at least 1.8 to 2 times a year you are
losing out on a huge chunk of potential
sales profit.
The traditional methods of cold calling and follow ups have
lost a fraction of profitability since the introduction of the Do -
Not - Call registry, causing telemarketers and SMS campaign owners to undertake other measures in order to sustain
sales.
The small businesses can't revive their lines of credit or even get a business loan with a bank because they have
lost their customer base and their
sales can't support their loan requests.
So, assuming that Comey didn't
lose any substantial portion of the $ 11 million he had in 2013 — though he did reportedly take a $ 500,000 loss on the
sale of his Connecticut home last year — his payout from Bridgewater Associates and his advance on «A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership» alone would put his net worth at around $ 15.5 million with the potential to increase that even more if his book stays atop the best - seller list for long.
At the same time, there will be forces that don't want this adjustment to take place: Asia is far more interested in political stability by providing jobs for millions of workers joining the workforce than to
lose sales to the U.S. by letting their currencies appreciate.
Many deals are
lost because the
sales team too quickly abandons the opportunity, because the contact isn't ready to receive a proposal, complete an RFI or share an RFP.