The tactic for today is to sell like a detective when working in B2B sales. Which probably does not make sense because when you think of a detective, you probably don’t think of selling being something that a detective does. A detective will typically start with a description of a person who committed a crime. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
One of the best ways to improve your script for setting appointments by phone is to include some pre-qualifying questions at the core of the script. 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 [...]
Here are some straightforward steps to take when writing a sales pitch. Step 1 - Think about the product that you want to sell. When you begin writing a sales pitch, stop to think about the product you are trying to drive demand for. This may be a very quick step to take, as [...]
Here are some quick sales pitch tips that stand a good chance of immediately improving your sales efforts. 1. Don’t sound like a salesperson. We operate under the belief that people don’t mind buying stuff, but nobody really enjoys being sold to. If that is true, then it might help us improve our conversations [...]
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. [...]