Pretty much every business and sales organization focuses on how to increase sales revenue. The following are seven specific areas where attention can be focused to try to drive an increase in sales revenue. 1. Improve Sales Messaging Usually, there is always room for improvement with sales messaging. An easy place to start is [...]
Finding and keeping good salespeople is key to success for any business and sales organization. While there can be some challenges with getting the best people on the team, there are some ways to get the most out of your salespeople and build them so that they perform at a higher level. The Conventional [...]
Adding extra effort doesn’t always improve selling which is the great thing about sales. This is great because there are clear and practical things that can be done to immediately improve results. 1. Effectively Qualify Prospects We can easily get trapped in the direction of trying to sell to everybody and, oftentimes, even to [...]
Having a sales email example to use as a guide can often help when performing sales prospecting. As we move on to look at examples, it is important to point out that there are actually a few different types of sales emails that can come up when prospecting. Pre-Call Sales Email One effective way [...]
The great thing about sales is that there are certain skills for sales that can lead to successful sales performance. Communicating Value It will be important for sales associates to be able to effectively communicate what they have to offer and grab a prospect’s attention. The skill of communicating the value that the salesperson [...]
Most businesses can spend time and energy on determining how to prospect for clients. Hard work and effort alone don’t equal results every time when it comes to prospecting. The reason is that there are very clear things we can do or not do to immediately impact our results. Outlined below are some of these: [...]
Sales role-play is a tool that can be used to decrease the uncertainty of how a salesperson is going to perform, keeping in mind that working as a salesperson can be very challenging. Two people practicing a sales scenario, with one person being the salesperson and the other being the prospect or customer is role-playing. [...]
Figuring out how to be a good sales manager helps those in management as well as all the staff who report to the sales managers. Before looking at some principles to create improvements, let’s talk about some of the common practices. Common Sales Manager Practices A sales manager plays the role of leader and [...]
The concept of a sales funnel is one of the most common models for managing sales activities and sales teams. This model is built on the understanding that you put in some amount of activity at the top of the funnel, and then out of that, you’ll get a particular number of conversations. Then, from [...]
One thing that can be helpful for a salesperson is to have a sample sales email. As we look at some samples, it is important to point out that there are a few different types of sales emails. Follow-up Emails One of the most common types of emails that salespeople need to send is [...]
