Tag Archives: Sales

The Story of Networking and Valuable Content

By Chuck Sink Original subscribers to this newsletter have been receiving some form of it since 2006. It started asBrandworth News, was reestablished as Big Hit Bits and became the Chuck Sink Link in April of 2010. The number of subscribers and quality of readership has steadily improved over 7 years. Market-leading business experts often comment on the articles… Read More »

Speed what? Are you kidding?

By Chuck Sink Remember the ironically short “speed networking” fad?  I haven’t been invited to any such events or seen any advertised in the last year or two and I’m a prime target. However, I did hear about one the other night. The person who attended said he nabbed 3 or 4 good leads and… Read More »

Learn and Network at the Chuck Sink Link Anniversary Event

A FREE NETWORKING EVENT to celebrate our TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY! Thursday, May 30, 2013 – 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM Eastpoint Executive Center – 264 South River Road Bedford, NH 03110 Create Content  to Drive New Business! Presented by Chuck Sink Link and Eastpoint Executive Center Please RSVP  by leaving a comment right here on this… Read More »

Curate Content that Drives New Business

By Chuck Sink In today’s marketing world you need to be a good Content Curator (Curator, huh?)  Curating the content is also known as getting the content so if I use the word “get” instead of “curate,” forgive me. The last real curators I knew worked exclusively for museums.   CEOs and sales executives are starting to… Read More »

The Falsehood of Hubris

By Chuck Sink        Former Superstar I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that bad things are never really as bad as you first think they are. The bad news is they are never as good as you first think either. It’s amazing how something that causes… Read More »

Business Development Top Ten

By Chuck Sink If you’re in a tricky business situation, to whom do you turn? The industry experts, right?  What if the industry expert is you or the guy down the hall?  Then you won’t have far to go for help.  If the expert you need is outside your company, you call the person in… Read More »

When you ASSume…

By Chuck Sink The day before a recent holiday which many love to celebrate, I wanted to ordersomething nice for my wife so I called the store of one of my networking contacts. This store owner and I had developed a typically nice networking relationship. One of the topics we’ve talked about is email marketing, something she knows I… Read More »

Positioning: Relax, the sale is yours.

By Chuck Sink Marketing is every business activity directed toward selling a product/service and successfully delivering it into customers’ hands. Marketing drives sales. There is no business until a sale is made and that’s why every CEO is his or her company’s chief of sales. Sleepless nights are the result of insufficient new business flowing through the pipeline. Most… Read More »

What is your Positioning Statement?

By Chuck Sink Your business needs a positioning statement because your target audience wants to know what your brand stands for. If there is one thought or word you want people to associate your business with in their minds, what is it? Before you write your Positioning Statement, clearly define your target audience. For example,… Read More »

Always Maintain the Foundation

By Chuck Sink Happy Thanksgiving!  Sounds a little hollow at this point doesn’t it? I received quite a few Thanksgiving email greetings this year. I read every one of them and gave a mental kudos to the companies who took time to send me the message. I replied to a few of them and it… Read More »