One of the most potent sales tactics is the sales takeaway. This refers to the sales tactic of taking away what you are trying to sell to either motivate the prospect to move forward or fully disqualify them and move on. While this is a great sales tactic, it is critical to use it only [...]
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 [...]
One of the most essential elements to include in a new sales hire onboarding process is a step for sales role-play. This would consist 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 “Build Email Drip Campaigns that Convert Sales.” If you were not able to make it, here is a video of the webinar and the slides. Here are some of the main topics we cover in this sales training webinar. Building Your Email Drip Marketing List To [...]
Social selling continues to become an essential aspect of sales prospecting every day. In a recent webinar on social selling, we discussed social media and provided some things for you to think about when figuring out how best to use social media in your sales strategy and phone prospecting. Here are some quick takeaways from this video. Figure [...]
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. [...]
If you were to ask a group of salespeople what the one thing they wanted to be better at was, in many cases, most would answer that they would like to be better at closing sales prospects. This is understandable because closing the sale is actually the most important step and what directly leads to [...]
There are many different opinions about whether or not someone can truly develop selling skills. Many believe that salespeople are born and that you either have the natural ability or you don’t. I personally don’t agree with that. I see selling as a skill that can be developed and improved regardless of your personality or [...]
It can be easy to see that a cold call script is needed when making outbound calls and then feel that an inbound call script is not needed when receiving calls from prospects. Why We Feel This Way This is very understandable for two reasons. First, inbound calls, where a prospect calls you, are a much easier sales [...]
