One of the most essential elements to include in a new sales hire onboarding process is a step for sales role-play. This would consist of practicing sales scenarios before a sales hire is put into action. Decrease the Amount of Learning Through Trial and Error There is no way to teach a new sales hire [...]
We had a webinar this week on “Build Email Drip Campaigns that Convert Sales.” If you were not able to make it, here is a video of the webinar and the slides. Here are some of the main topics we cover in this sales training webinar. Building Your Email Drip Marketing List To [...]
Social selling continues to become an essential aspect of sales prospecting every day. In a recent webinar on social selling, we discussed social media and provided some things for you to think about when figuring out how best to use social media in your sales strategy and phone prospecting. Here are some quick takeaways from this video. Figure [...]
In a previous blog post, we discussed how to use soft closing questions. There are also times when you will want to be more direct and hard close a sales prospect. Here are some examples of hard closing questions and some explanations for each closing question. Are you ready to move forward to the next [...]
One of the things salespeople or business owners care most about is closing the sales. With that, everybody is looking for ways to become a better closer. In this video, we talk about some soft closing tactics that, when you do everything else right, can be more effective than trying the traditional hard close. [...]
We currently live in a very narcissistic world today. If you are ever on social media, you will notice a steady flow of selfies and status updates that are solely centered around what the person posting is doing, has received, achieved, etc. The Problem with this Behavior The interesting thing is that what motivates this [...]
Everybody talks about how to approach social selling. We want to take a minute here to discuss how not to use social media as a sales prospecting tool. Before we get into what not to do, let’s outline two key principles: We are all trying to sell something. Just about everybody you connect with and [...]
In the cult classic sales movie Glengarry Glen Ross, Alec Baldwin’s character outlines a sales process using the acronym A-I-D-A. While the movie is quite entertaining, this scene reminds me of many things I feel are missing from sales processes and the techniques taught to salespeople. Here is a quick breakdown of those. Missing Item #1 - [...]
An extremely common sales objection is when the prospect says, “We do not have the budget right now.” While that might sound like an immediate show-stopper, there are some key things that you can do to try to get around and resolve that objection. TLDR We do not have budget is a common and difficult [...]
I was doing some warm calling this week, and since I was calling people who had just attended my webinar, I felt confident and did not need to use a warm-call script. It is easy for all of us to feel like this and that you can just “wing it.” Well, I ended up on a call that [...]