In this video, we present our sales training webinar on "How to Improve Your Control Over the Sales Process.” Here is a brief summary of what we discussed in this training session. Sales Process Stages The first thing that can help you with improving your control over the sales process is to have more [...]
While setting a first sales call appointment can seem more difficult than going on the appointment, you can't just show up for the appointment and completely improvise if you want to have consistent results. In this webinar, we outline what you can do to have awesome appointments with prospects. Three Common Traps that You [...]
Here are eight steps to go through when using appointment setting scripts: Step 1 - Focus on the Right Goal The first step in creating your appointment setting scripts is to focus on the right goal. If you are calling to set an appointment, your ultimate goal is to sell the product, but your immediate [...]
Setting appointments can be a key part of a salesperson's job. While this can sometimes seem challenging, there are some small steps that can make it easier, and we outlined those in this recent sales training webinar. Step 1 – Focus on the Right Goal The first step in this process is to focus [...]
One of the biggest things that can hurt your sales is wasting time talking to poor-quality sales prospects. Your time is extremely valuable and every hour spent on a sales prospect that has a low probability of purchasing should be avoided if possible. We Sometimes Try to Sell to Everybody The challenge is that we [...]
Being able to qualify a sales prospect is a critical skill for being a successful salesperson. This skill will enable you to determine if a prospect has a low probability of moving forward, and if you can clearly see that, you will be able to prevent yourself from wasting valuable time with bad sales prospects. [...]
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 [...]
We had a very productive sales training webinar this week. Here are the recording and slides. The topic was “Sell More by Screening Good Prospects from Bad.” Your Time is Valuable and Must Be Protected This sales training webinar focuses on the key principle that your time is extremely valuable. You only have so [...]
It can be easy to see that a cold call script is needed when making outbound calls and then feel that an inbound call script is not needed when receiving calls from prospects. Why We Feel This Way This is very understandable for two reasons. First, inbound calls, where a prospect calls you, are a much easier sales [...]
In the cult classic sales movie titled Glengarry Glen Ross, there is this scene where Alec Baldwin’s character outlines a sales process that uses the acronym A-I-D-A. While the movie is quite entertaining, this scene reminds me of many things that I feel are missing from sales processes and techniques that are taught to salespeople. Here [...]
