We recently hosted a webinar on closing questions to ask when selling, and one group of questions that we discussed was 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 [...]
I had a conversation with a family member recently, and I thought it was a good example of why you need a good sales pitch. Or an example of me not using a great sales pitch. Background The background is that I recently bought a set of ceramic knives, and I have been pretty [...]
When it comes to making cold calls, whether you don’t have time or the desire, it can be easy to find an excuse not to pick up the phone. Because of this, many salespeople try to only use email to generate leads. While we believe the best way to generate leads consistently is to use [...]
Sales role-play scripts are an important tool to help you improve sales. Here are some key sections to include in your sales role-play scripts. Gatekeeper Introduction It is very reasonable to expect that almost half of phone prospecting calls will be answered by a gatekeeper. Many gatekeepers aim to screen out salespeople, so it [...]
A telemarketing script template can drastically improve your success when making outbound prospecting calls. Here is a structure of sections you can use when creating your telemarketing script template. Elevator Pitch We believe that one of the best ways to open a call is to share an elevator pitch. This should be one to [...]
Here is a phone call script example that we created for selling recruiting services to a hiring manager. Introduction Hello [Contact’s Name], this is [Your Name] from DCR Workforce, have I caught you in the middle of anything? Elevator Pitch We like to start out a phone call script to include some sort of elevator pitch. Great. The Purpose [...]
You hear salespeople and sales managers use the term consultative sales. But the reality is that the majority of people who talk about this are not performing consultative selling at all. To demonstrate this, in this video, we outline what is not consultative sales. In this video, we list out what sales reps often and [...]
You often hear the term consultative selling. But what exactly does that refer to, and how do you become a consultative salesperson? If you are curious about this, you may want to watch this recording of a recent webinar we hosted on “How to Become a Consultative Salesperson.” What is Not Consultative Selling Before [...]
Here are some sales email templates from the SalesScripter library of emails. These templates are filled in with one of our campaigns that was created for server and application hosting, but you can use this same structure for any product or service. Before we show you the sales email templates, let’s review a few concepts [...]
Here are some of the sales email examples that are in the library of email templates that SalesScripter provides. These are filled in with our campaign for selling IT outsourcing services, but you can use the same structure for any product. Pre-Call Email with a Value Focus Below is one of our sales email [...]