If you're new to cold calling, the idea of picking up the phone and calling strangers can be intimidating. But with the right approach, you can dramatically improve your results. Here are ten cold calling tips for beginners that will make the process easier and help you close more deals. 1. Don’t Lead with [...]
One key to being a successful salesperson is finding a way to be persistent without being annoying. Most salespeople try to minimize or avoid being annoying by not reaching out too much. However, it is not the reaching out that is annoying to prospects; it is what most salespeople say when they reach out that [...]
In this video, we discuss the best way to open cold calls. This is critical because what you do and say in the first 30 seconds of a cold call will determine your success. Don’t Trigger Guardedness The first thing you need to do to improve the first 30 seconds of a cold call [...]
In this video, we will discuss how to optimize the conversations you have with sales prospects. We will provide clear and practical tips that will not only improve the impression you make, but they will also help you to get the most out of your meetings leading to an increase in leads being generated. [...]
In this video, we discuss how to apply the conversation-based selling approach to networking. Networking is one of the best ways to generate leads if you are a business owner or salesperson who sells in the geographic area they live or work in. Networking can either involve going to formal networking events, or it can [...]
In the previous video in our video series on how to implement a conversation-based selling approach, we talked about the first step of the sales process being the initial contact. And one of the main forms the initial contact can take is picking up the phone and cold calling a prospect or a business. In [...]
In this video, we discuss how to sell in tech sales. This can be helpful because tech sales can be one of the more difficult areas for a salesperson to operate in. Tech Sales is More Difficult While sales can be challenging regardless of the product being sold, it can be unclear how to [...]
In this video, we discuss how to use a conversation-based selling approach. This sales methodology cannot only improve your results, but it can also make selling easier. Sales Process The starting place for explaining the conversation-based selling methodology is to outline the sales process you will take a sales prospect through, and that includes [...]
Regardless of what you sell, generating leads and closing deals can often feel difficult and complex. In this video, we discuss one of the factors that can contribute sales being difficult and we provide a few very simple changes you can for how to simplify selling. Four Categories of Prospects To help make it [...]
In this video, we look at how sales is like dating to give us more clarity on what to do and not do when working in sales and pursuing prospects. Even if you aren’t an expert or experienced at dating, you can still use that as an external example to gain more clarity on what [...]