Having the ability to effectively collect information from prospects is one of the keys for how to increase company sales. The optimal way to extract more information is by asking open-ended sales questions. Looking at Closed-Ended Questions First Before discussing how to incorporate good open-ended questions, let’s discuss closed-ended questions. Questions that can be [...]
Incorporating good sales questions is one of the best ways to improve your sales results. The following are five questions that can reveal valuable information. 1. Why have you made the choice to meet with us? Being salespeople, we always know the reason we want to meet with qualified prospects which is we want [...]
It is very helpful for a salesperson is to have a template for a follow-up sales email. The email could be with information already filled in, and you just change a few details. Then, simply send out the email when needed. A salesperson finds this helpful when cold calling and sales prospecting because one of [...]
One thing you can be certain about when cold calling for sales is you’ll very likely run into some sort of on each call. Objections are like mini stop signs in which the prospect will hold up to attempt to end the call. What you do and not do when getting an objection determines your [...]
Having the ability to create sales scripts that sell is quite often the difference between success and failure. Commonly, it is thought that there is not much that can be done in order to make a sales script better when, in reality, the product is what is going to sell. There are some fundamental things [...]
There are simple things that can be done to improve effectiveness and increase results when it comes to making good sales phone calls. 1. Confirm Availability Most often, the prospects we are calling on are busy. This is usually because the decision-makers have full workloads. In addition, with common headcount reductions taking place, the [...]
It is not always considered the easiest thing to do when writing a cold call script. One challenge is that you typically only have a small amount of time for executing the cold call, and you most likely have a good amount of information that you would like to share and/or collect. The following are [...]
The following are some simple and clear things that can be done to make your phone script more powerful. 1. Confirm availability Include language that confirms that the prospect is available to speak with you for at least a couple of minutes at the beginning of your sales script. When you confirm that the [...]
You would find that, if you surveyed 100 salespeople, the majority don’t use any form of sales script. Often, scripts are seen as a nuisance to develop, but the reality is that they offer valuable benefits. 1. Sales scripts improve how you sound When conversing with prospects, using a script clearly makes you sound [...]
In the above video, we provide a sales script example for business insurance. We created this sales script after receiving a cold call from a salesperson who was trying to set an appointment to discuss insurance. I will explain this sales script below, but if you want to listen to the cold call from this [...]