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Leading Online Retailer Revs Up the “Turbocharge Your Garage Challenge” With Over $10,000 in Prizes

BOSTON, April 26 /PRNewswire/ — Today, CSN Stores, the No. 3 U.S. online retailer of home furnishings and housewares, launched “CSNTools.com’s Turbocharge Your Garage Challenge,” a nationwide search for the country’s grungiest garage. CSN will salvage one struggling garage with a $10,000 grand prize package at the end of the contest.  

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To get this initiative off the ground, CSN teamed up with Celebrity Contractor/Designer Lynn Kegan, an expert at reworking, remodeling, and rebuilding lackluster living spaces. Together they will review thousands of anticipated submissions and makeover one cluttered, outdated garage through a prize package featuring Blackhawk tools, Gladiator Garageworks flooring and storage, Flowall organizers, a refrigerator/freezer, and much, much more.

Just for entering the Turbocharge Your Garage Challenge, all contestants will be directed to an exclusive Deals and Savings Page, that features hundreds of DIY and garage essentials, and even Father’s Day gift ideas, from tool sets to workbenches, for up to 20 percent off.

“If your garage is cluttered and out-dated, it can really affect the whole house,” says Kegan. “CSN and I are hoping to show people that the garage is an extension of the home and a room that can serve countless functions.”

To enter the contest, participants should log onto csntools.com/turbocharge. Then they briefly need to describe the current state of their garage and tell us why it deserves to be turbocharged. Entries must be received today through Father’s Day, June 20th.

After the first stage, the Turbocharge Garage panel of judges will choose 50+ state finalists, asking them to submit a picture of their garage. The finalists’ submissions will then be posted on Facebook.com/CSNStores, where fans will be able to vote for their favorites. The submission with the most fan votes will immediately catapult to top 3 status.

The grand, second, and third-prize winners will be announced in early August. The second prize is a Hitachi Lithium Ion 6-Tool Combo Kit and has a retail value of $500+. The third prize is a $100 Gift Card to CSNTools.com.

Visitors to CSNTools.com will discover CSN’s latest site, an online Mecca for DIYers, professional contractors, and casual weekend warriors alike. The site carries over 10,000 products, from power tools to water pumps and gearboxes to generators. And with the contest running through June, the site, with its selection and Deals and Savings Page, is the perfect place for great Father’s Day gifts.

Also, be sure to check out some of CSN’s other contests, including the Green and Clean Bathroom Bail Out on CSNStores.com.

CSN Stores LLC

CSN Stores (csnstores.com) is a $250 million+, privately owned company, comprised of 200+ e-boutiques in North America, the U.K. and Germany providing unparalleled selection, great customer service and significant savings. CSN’s sites include: Cookware.com, BedroomFurniture.com, Luggage.com and AllModern.com. Based in Boston, Mass., CSN offers 1.5 million+ products from more than 4,000 brands. CSN is the No. 3 online retailer of housewares and home furnishings in the U.S., according to Internet Retailer.

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Baseline Selling: How to Become a Sales Superstar by Using What You Already Know About the Game of Baseball

Reviewed by William Phenn for Reader Views (1/06)

Baseline Selling was written by a man that knows sales. Dave Kurlan started selling while still in his childhood years. Greeting cards, knives, pots and pans – he ran the gamut. Kurlan’s sales career paralleled so much of my own that I could relate to him immediately. When he spoke of the Wearever incident it brought fond memories of my own Wearever days (burning apples in the “Waterless Cookware”). Kurlan has truly paid his dues in the sales profession. Now, he passes on his many years of knowledge in these 203 pages.

Baseline Selling is so much more than just an instructional book on sales and closing techniques, it is an in depth book on the business of sales. From First Base to Home Plate, Kurlan makes you a player. He explains the “Five ways to get to first base”, “The Seven Challenges” of getting there, and everything in between. Topics such as goal planning, how to reach decision makers, phone manners and prospecting, just to name a few, are covered.

Then on to “Second and the Quality,” “Cause and Effect” and a very important one, “Too Much Empathy ” and many more items of interest. Kurlan shows how to overcome prospect problems by learning to anticipate them.

As I continued running to Third, I was shown how to demonstrate added value in a presentation to a prospect. I was shown how to present my company as a solution to the prospects problem and how to help the prospect make a decision, as to his present vendor or my company.

Finally, rounding third and heading for Home Plate, Kurlan hit this reader with, “The Six Biggest Presentation Challenges.” Things to say, do, not say and not do. My favorite was, “Mouth Marbles,” where the author suggests a course in speech therapy. Kurlan goes further into dealing with objections and shows the proper close. At Home Plate he stresses the theories of closing and how it is all in the timing. He concludes the book with a very interesting chapter on, “Account Management,” and what to do after the sale.

Baseline Selling is definitely a Homerun for Kurlan. His presentation of this very informative volume made for an enjoyable experience. In my usual manner with a great book, I give Kurlan and Baseline Selling an A+ (Must read).

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