In this webinar, we look at the subject of what to do (and not do) with voicemail boxes when sales prospecting. Getting a prospect’s voicemail box is the most likely outcome. Prospects can be difficult to reach. You can call a prospect dozens of times, and it would not be crazy to get his [...]
An extremely common sales objection is that the prospect will say, “We do not have the budget right now.” While that might sound like an immediate show-stopper, there are some key things that you can do to try to get around and resolve that objection. How to Respond when Cold Calling One key thing to understand here [...]
You will face sales objections at different points of the sales cycle. We recommend that you don't deal with objections head-on in the early sales cycle stages as your goal is to just keep the conversation going and get to the appointment or meeting. But at some point, it does make sense to try to [...]
Here are some sales objection examples and how you can respond to get around the objection. These are objection responses that redirect the objection to keep the conversation going but try to take it in a new yet still related direction. One thing to remember when you face some examples of sales objections while cold [...]
One of the best ways to become a better closer is to ask the right qualifying questions when meeting with prospects. These are questions that screen the prospect to see how good of a fit your product is and how likely the prospect is to move forward with the purchase. Here is a short video [...]
While working for a software company in my first sales position, I went through a workshop that taught the Sandler Sales Methodology. This was actually one of the first real sales training programs that I went through, and I loved it. Here is a quick review and summary of what I liked about their sales [...]
Here are a few do’s and don’ts to help you with leaving a voicemail when you are performing cold outbound prospecting. Do: Use brevity - 20 to 30 seconds in length There are many reasons not to leave a long voicemail message when calling a prospect, and those don’t need to be spelled out for [...]
Let’s face it—training salespeople can be downright difficult sometimes. A first step to making this area less difficult can be to examine some of the contributing factors. This knowledge will help you take the right steps to improve your training processes. 1. There is so much information you need to share with them. The first [...]
I was doing some warm calling this week, and since it was calling people who had just attended my webinar, I felt confident and did not need to use a warm call script. It is easy for all of us to feel like this and that you can just “wing it.” Well, I ended up [...]
I had a salesperson trying to sell to me today, and when she could not close me, she tried to figure out if I was the decision-maker. For some reason, how she tried to figure this out did not feel great to me as the prospect, so I thought it might be good to outline [...]