Here are a few rules for you to shorten your sales cycle and ensure your selling success. Here’s how you can make more money in sales. Rule #1. Have a plan for every sales call. How will you know your sales call is a success? It’s not when you feel like it was a great call. It’s only when you’ve left the call with more than you had when you went in. That … [Read more...]
New Year’s Sales Resolutions
Forget the resolutions for less food and more exercise. You can always make them later. How about some resolutions to help you sell that are free of calories and require no gym visits? You’ll be more motivated to keep them and they’ll be good for business. 1. I’ll think more this year. Have you ever noticed that action is more valued in selling than thinking about the action? … [Read more...]
Setting Call Objectives
How To Set Call Objectives That Get Results As I left for school each morning, my mother would say goodbye to me. If I were having an exam that day she’d add, “And don’t come home with less than 100.” Does that sound cold in today’s environment of self-esteem and self-expression? It didn’t to me. It was the beginning of my sales training. What my mother did for me was to … [Read more...]
Creating an Introduction That Sells
How To Write an Introduction that Gets Phone Calls Returned When someone asks you, “What do you do?” if you say, “I’m in sales,” you’re making a mistake. You may think sales is the accurate answer. It is, but you’re losing an opportunity to begin selling with a momentum that is both accurate and compelling. There are lots of instances when you’ll have to answer “What do you … [Read more...]
Networking for Business
The More the Merrier: How to Choose and Organize a Networking Group Customers are not as isolated as you think when making buying decisions. The people they work with and respect are a source of valuable input. Many of your customers participate in business networking groups where they meet people who provide buying input. If you’re part of a networking group, … [Read more...]
What to Do at Networking Meetings
Does this sound like a goal that’s too good to be true? It’s not, and you can make it part of your selling strategy. By learning the components of effective networking you can never make a cold call again. You also decrease the time it takes to close deals. The research on networking says that each person is connected through family, business or hobbies to a network of 250 … [Read more...]
Managing Your Manager
The Clues to tell you how to Create a Better Working Relationship with Your Manager There's good news and bad news if you want a better working relationship with your manager. The good news is it's possible. The bad news is it might take some work. Managers who like the people they work with are easier to work for. So how can you get your manager to like you? … [Read more...]
Working with my manager is less productive than I like.
Your manager is one of your most important customers. Having a strategy to work effectively with your manager is as important as the strategies you make when you work with your clients. First determine how your manager wants to work with you. Do a quick assessment if your manager is a more “people-focus” person or more of a “task-focused” person. Are you able to … [Read more...]
Avoid Lowering Your Price
Consultative Selling: The Questions to ask to avoid lowering your price Sales miracles do occur. In 1995, I was brought into a distributor’s account where they were having equipment problems. I planned to begin the sales call by discussing a product that could solve their problem. As I suggested the product and before I could go into any detail, my customer said, “Send me … [Read more...]