Sometimes you have a desperate need to get some cash in the door quickly and to do that you have to make sales happen fast. Over the next four editions we’ll give you four proven ways you can get the ball rolling quickly and really crank up your sales figures.

1. Make an enticing offer to your existing clients or customers with the aim of getting repeat business and add-on sales.

If you own a dry cleaning business for example, you could offer customers a special deal on their next dry clean.  It could be something like two shirts for the price of one.  The result will be repeat business because you have provided something to entice that customer to come back to you (and you could promote this special to customers who normally don’t bring shirts in too).  If you are a plumber you can offer say a special deal on replacing all their tap washers whenever you’re doing a job for a customer (you can promote this special offer to prospective customers as well).