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Whatever you do, do not ask this sales question: What does a typical day for you look like? And you might read that question and think you would never ask that question anyway. What I want to talk about here is more the type of question, and here are three additional examples that could be [...]
In this video, we discuss how to perform a sales discovery meeting. What is sales discovery? Before we jump into how to perform a sales discovery meeting, let’s take a step back and just clarify what sales discovery is. This is basically a meeting where the salesperson will ask the prospect a series of [...]
If it does not look like the gatekeeper is going to let you through, try getting around the gatekeeper by treating the gatekeeper like the target prospect. There are two different ways to do this. First, if the gatekeeper does not understand who you are, who you should talk to, or why the target prospect [...]
In this training video, we talk about how to screen and qualify sales prospects in order to separate good prospects from bad prospects. This is extremely important because your time is one of your most valuable assets and in order to maximize sales, you need to protect that time by maximizing time spent with good [...]
We regularly how cold call demo webinars and we try to share some of the calls and this is an outbound B2B cold call from a recent event. What Went Well On this call, you hear an outbound b2b cold call where I try to confirm availability right at the beginning of the call by [...]
In this video, we provide some qualifying questions for sales. One thing we do to try to make it easier to figure out what qualifying questions to ask is to break them down into four categories. Need to Purchase One thing to try to identify when talking with a prospect is whether they “need” [...]
We recently held a webinar on “How to Always Know the Right Sales Questions to Ask,” and here is a recording of that with the slides available for download. The Best Salesperson is the One that Asks the Best Questions A lot of salespeople spend energy trying to figure out what to say to [...]
You hear salespeople and sales managers throw around the word 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 [...]
Number 4 on our list of the 10 best sales tips is to always have a list of pre-qualifying questions to ask. What are Pre-Qualifying Questions? In order for us to explain this tip from our list of the best sales tips, we need to start by clearly stating what we mean by pre-qualifying [...]
One of the best ways to improve your script for setting appointments by phone is to put at the core of the script some pre-qualifying questions. What are Pre-Qualifying Questions? Pre-qualifying questions are questions that determine if there is at least a slight fit on the prospect’s side for what you are trying to [...]