Many salespeople view closing sales as the key thing they need to improve in order to sell more. I personally believe that if you do the right things during the sales process, closing should be the easiest step. And in some cases, deals will almost close themselves. A Good Sales Message Makes Closing Easier If [...]
One thing you can do to close more sales is to try to find a compelling event. A compelling event is a date of significance for the prospect regarding his or her need to purchase your product. For example, if the prospect is looking at replacing a current vendor and the current contract expires on [...]
One of the more powerful closing tactics is the sales takeaway. This tactic is where the salesperson switches from trying to get the prospect to buy the product to trying to take away the option for the prospect to buy the product. How to Do a Sales Takeaway Here are a couple ways to take [...]
Trial closing is performing a “test” close to identify where the prospect is in terms of his or her level of interest. Here are some examples of closing questions that you can ask to perform a trial close: What do you think about what you have seen so far? How do you think this fits [...]
One tool that you can use to improve closing sales is a partnership plan. This is basically a document that lists out all of the steps that you and the prospect will take together leading up to the purchase and implementation of your product. Here is an example: This sales tool is just a table with [...]
This is a recording from our webinar where we discussed Chapter 24 in The SMART Sales System which is centered around how to become a great sales closer. If you would like to purchase a copy of The SMART Sales System book, you can do that here. If you would like to register for the 15-week [...]
This is a short clip taken from our recent webinar on How to Make Closing Prospect Easy and in this clip, I talk about how your sales pitch will make closing easier. Some may mix closing and your sales pitch together. I see them as two separate steps and you have a step where you [...]
We recently held a webinar on “How to Make Closing Sales Prospects Easy” and one of the topics that we discussed were some common misperceptions that we can have when thinking about salespeople and closing. As a first step to try to get better at closing, I think it is good to dismiss some of [...]
We recently held a webinar on "How to Make Closing Sales Prospects Easy" and you can watch a recording of that webinar here and also download the slides below.
We recently hosted a webinar on closing questions to ask when selling and one group of questions that we discussed were closing questions. Here is a clip from that portion of the webinar. We break our closing questions down into three categories: Trial Closing Soft Closing Hard Closing Trial Closing Questions Trial closing questions are [...]
We recently held a webinar on “How to Always Know the Right Sales Questions to Ask” and here is a recording of that with the slides available for download. The Best Salesperson is the One that Asks the Best Questions A lot of salespeople spend energy trying to figure out what to say to make [...]
While you never know how a conversation will go with a prospect, there are still some things you can do to build out an inside sales process that your sales reps can use and try to take a prospect through. In this short video, we outline three key steps to an inside sales process and [...]