It can be tricky to provide sales coaching when you also play the role of sales manager. For real high-quality coaching, you will want a real open line of communication between the coach and the person being coached. This will allow the salesperson to be very open with sharing what is going on. A salesperson [...]
We delivered a sales training webinar on sales objections. In that webinar, we outlined 3 different ways you can respond to objections and that is shown in this video clip from the sales training webinar. Here are some quick notes on the three options you have for sales objection responses. 1. Comply with the Sales [...]
One of the most important elements to include in a new sales hire onboarding process is a step for sales role-play. This would include some form of practicing sales scenarios before a sales hire is put into action. Decrease the Amount of Learning Through Trial-and-Error There is no way to teach a new sales hire [...]
We had a webinar this week on the topic of “Build Email Drip Campaigns that Convert Sales”. Here is a video of the webinar and also the slides if you were not able to make it. Here are some of the main topics that we cover in this sales training webinar. Building Your [...]
There is no doubt that social selling is continuing to become a more important of sales prospecting every day. In a recent webinar that we delivered on social selling, we discussed the topic of social media and provided some things for you to think about when trying to figure out how best to use social [...]
It is critical to ask sales questions when you are out there selling. But the difference between being a good salesperson and one that is consistently overachieving is asking the RIGHT questions. Let’s take a look at one of the common sales prospecting questions that many salespeople think is good and we will show you why [...]
Sometimes it can help to look at some cold call voicemail examples in order to get some ideas of what to say when prospecting. In this video, we go through some examples for you. Value Message The first of the sales prospecting voicemail examples is a value message. It is one that just focuses on [...]
Most salespeople do not ask enough or the right sales questions. While this is not good and can be having a negative impact on sales results, it is actually very understandable for a few reasons. Companies Don’t Train Salespeople to Ask the Right Sales Questions If you looked at most new hire sales training programs, [...]
In a previous blog post, we discussed how to use soft closing questions. There are also times when you will want to be more direct and hard close a sales prospect. Here are some examples of hard closing questions and some explanations for each closing question. Are you ready to move forward to the next [...]
One of the things salespeople or business owners care most about is closing the sales. With that, everybody is looking for ways to become a better closer. In this video, we talk about some soft closing tactics that, when you do everything else right, can be more effective than trying the traditional hard close. What [...]