The 80/20 Rule and How to Supercharge Your Sales and MarketingIn this Google Hangout we chat with sales expert Perry Marshall on how entrepreneurs can focus on the right customers and, in turn, increase their revenues.

ByJason Fell

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据说你的20%左右customers produce 80 percent of your sales. It's called the 80/20 rule. If you're responsible for sales at your company, you better get to know it.

Why? Because that 20 percent is where you'll get the biggest bang for your sales and marketing buck, says Perry Marshall, president of Perry S. Marshall & Associates, a Chicago-based company that consults both online and brick-and-mortar companies on generating sales leads, web traffic and maximizing advertising results. Marshall is also the author of five books including80/20 Sales and MarketingandUltimate Guide to Google Adwords, both from Entrepreneur Press.

In this Google Hangout, Marshall talks in detail about the 80/20 rule and how business owners can leverage it for everything from finding customers, engaging them and selling a ton -- both in-person and online. "In sales, there are all kinds of things that don't appear to be directly connected to whether somebody's going to buy, but actually they have everything to do with whether someone is going to buy," Marshall says.

Marshall also talks about how the rule applies to areas beyond sales, like motivation and time management.

Related:

The 80/20 Rule of Sales: How to Find Your Best Customers

80/20 Sales and Marketing: The Definitive Guide to Working Less and Making More(Related Book)

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Jason Fell

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Jason Fell is the VP of Native Content, managing theEntrepreneur Partner Studio, which creates dynamic and compelling content for our partners. He previously served as Entrepreneur.com's managing editor and as the technology editor prior to that.

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