Blog posts that outline tips for how to have the best sales pitch
Here are some dos and don'ts for prospecting on LinkedIn. Don’t Sound Like a Salesperson There are two reasons it's even more important not to sound like a salesperson when communicating with prospects on LinkedIn. First, the people that you want to pursue are likely getting messages from a lot of product-selling salespeople. With [...]
Sending cold emails on LinkedIn has become one of the most popular ways to try to get new prospects and generate leads. And while LinkedIn makes it very easy to connect with and message prospects, it is also very easy to make mistakes with your messages. With that being the case, here is a brain [...]
This video is module 1 of a full sales training program called The SMART Sales System. You can go through the full sales training program for free on YouTube. The training aligns with a book by the same name and here are all of the training modules: Introduction to SMART Consultative Selling Building Your Consultative [...]
In this video, we discuss steps you can use for building a sales message. When working in sales, it is critical to have a good message and building a good one can seem difficult. We provide a step-by-step process that you can use to create a very powerful sales message in this training module. [...]
Here is a recording of week three of our 15-Week SMART Sales System Webinar Series. If you would like to purchase your copy of The SMART Sales System book, click here. Also, Read An Example of a Cold Call Example from Another Financial Advisor Listen to "SMART Sales System - Module 4: Sales Scripts" on Spreaker. [...]
We recently held a webinar on how to be awesome at business networking, and here is a video of that event. Below are the slides available for download. Our tips start with making some mindset changes as you try to be a better networker. The first change is to shift from a fruit-picking mindset to one [...]
Here is a cold email example that I received from a salesperson who sells internet and connectivity services for a major telecom provider. Below is the actual cold email that he sent, and after that, there will be some analysis and another cold email example that I created based on the feedback. Subject Line: [Salesperson’ [...]
While it is very easy to connect with prospects on LinkedIn, it can be very difficult to figure out how to cold call LinkedIn connections. This is because becoming connections can, in some ways, seem like a friendly gesture, and you might not want to follow that gesture up with some sort of sales pitch [...]
Hosting webinars and events is a great way to generate leads for your business. Usually, after you have an event, you will have a spreadsheet of registrations or attendees. This is a great list to work on, but it can often be unclear what best to do to convert the list of attendees into leads. [...]
Here is a real cold call example from a salesperson that appears to sell PEO services, which is a type of HR and payroll outsourcing. In this video, we provide the recording of the call and after that we provide an assessment of the call in terms of what went well and what could have [...]