You can expect to hear ” when the going gets tough – the tough get going”. Yes markets are tight in the local economy. So get your marketing right and get your sales people tuned up. Now is the time to do it not when the going is easy. People coming to buy from you is not selling. Selling is when your “sales people” do their job and make sure the customer who can shop around, stops and buys from you!

Would you believe it? The first online sale! Of all the things the new internet could be used for!

It is rumoured in the early 1970’s, students from Stanford University in California sold some MIT students in Massachusetts a small amount of illicit narcotics. Thus started the first ecommerce transaction.