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To be good at closing a sale does not require you to be manipulative or pushy. If you want to be a better closer, you simply need to make sure you are asking the right questions. In this video, which is a clip from a webinar that we hosted on questions that you can ask [...]
In this video are some examples of open-ended sales questions. Need vs. Want Open-Ended Sales Questions It can be easy to end up working on a sales lead or sales opportunity where the prospect is expressing a lot of interest in what you are trying to sell. But does this mean that you can count [...]
One of the best ways to improve b2b cold calling is to focus on the simple goal of getting the meeting. This can be easy to forget because our ultimate goal is to sell the product. And if we end up on the phone with a prospect, it can be easy to get excited and [...]
As you try to determine which sales prospect to pursue and which ones you should continue to invest time into, it can help to have clarity around which ones are likely to purchase from you. Your time is very valuable and you need to protect it from being wasted on poor-quality sales prospects. To improve [...]
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. [...]
The most common thing that salespeople want to improve is to get better at closing. They often want to know what they can do or change to become a better closer. The interesting thing here is that closing should actually be one of the easiest steps in your sales process. If you do the right [...]
We improve our results by keeping our eye on the ultimate goal when making sales telephone calls. It’s sometimes best to have appointment-setting be our primary goal when making true cold calls. It’s easy to lose sight of that goal by getting sidetracked and trying to go beyond that goal to selling something or even [...]
It is a given that selling is unpredictable and one thing we can be sure of is we can use effective sales tactics to create increasingly productive conversations with prospects. Magnifying any pain in which we’re able to identify that the prospect is experiencing is one of those tactics. When using pain in this context, [...]
Commonly, salespeople believe in order to be successful you need to have persuasive sales skills. Also, there is a common misconception that you somehow have to manipulate prospects to be truly persuasive. Actually, you don’t have to be manipulative at all to be effective in building interest as well as getting prospects to move forward. [...]