Many salespeople use one sales pitch, and they essentially say the same thing to every prospect they talk to. You can get by with this approach and be an OK salesperson. But if you want to operate at a high level, you really need more than one pitch, and we will outline why. Different Benefits and Problems [...]
When you are cold calling a prospect, the contact will have their guard up at a medium level when they answer the phone. Everything that you say will either increase or decrease their guardedness. If you can simply improve your ability to not trigger their guard so that it either stays level or decreases, you [...]
Effective networking is the best way to generate leads and improve sales. Follow these 12 easy steps, and you will see an immediate improvement in results. 1. Set a quota for yourself It is easy to find an excuse to not go to a networking event. To help with this, set a quota for [...]
While struggling with a cold this week, I thought of a company that has a great sales and marketing message, and that is because they focus solely on the pain that they fix. This example that I thought of is NyQuil. Take a quick look at their main tagline: NyQuil: the nighttime sniffling, sneezing, coughing, [...]
There was a point in my sales career when I sold enterprise software and the message coming down from my management was to have “business conversations” when you are sales prospecting. This was actually a really good directive from the top as what they were saying was to get away with talking about products and [...]
Figuring out your value proposition can often be a tricky thing. And even if you know what your value prop is, it can be easy to fall into the trap of not mentioning it and skipping to talk primarily about your products and features. Here is one of my favorite clips from the show Mad [...]
Having strong value propositions is critical to successful selling. Many people will spend time trying to think of the perfect value prop. But the reality is that you can have multiple value propositions. This means the value you offer to different types of buyers can be different – You help a manufacturing company in different [...]
A question that gets asked all the time is “What the heck is SalesScripter?” It is actually not an easy question to answer because there is nothing like it out there, and the scripter actually does many different things. Quick One-Minute Video To help answer this, here is a quick one-minute video that explains [...]
Michael Halper, CEO of SalesScripter, recently presented at Email World 2013 on how to use content marketing to improve Here is a recording of the presentation. Producing good content is becoming increasingly important when it comes to excellence in the areas of sales and marketing. You need to have good content that grabs the prospect’s [...]
One thing that most salespeople are really good at is going into detail and talking about all the great things their products do. The challenge with that is that, when you are first talking to a prospect, it is too early to talk about what your products do. This prospect does not care at this [...]
