There can be very significant advantages to planning what you’re going to ask and say when meeting with sales prospects, but the majority of salespeople do not script sales conversations. For example, when a news anchor is going through the news for the day, she’ll speak clearly and go through all of the information in [...]
There are clear dos and don’ts when writing a cold call script and they’re outlined below. Introduction Is your introduction as brief as possible? When you’re cold calling, you’re calling prospects out of the blue. Technically, your call is uninvited or unwanted which means you need to be respectful of the prospect’s time. With [...]
It can seem like a difficult thing to figure out what to say on a cold call. There are things you can do to improve your ability to know what to say on a cold call, keeping in mind that every call is unique and you never really know what direction the call is going [...]
It may seem challenging to write good calling scripts. There are very clear things that can be done to make your scripts more powerful. 1. Confirm Availability A question to confirm the prospect’s availability is a powerful thing to insert at the beginning of calling scripts. Asking the prospect if they have a moment [...]
It can often be the difference between success and failure when choosing whether or not to have a sales script for sales. The following are steps you can take to assist you with how to build your sales script: 1. Identify the Goal You should have a clear awareness of what you’re hoping to [...]
It can help you to get the most out of your meetings and interactions with target prospects by asking the best sales questions. Since your time with prospects is both limited and valuable, it is important to make that time as productive as it can be. What you do with that time could be the [...]
Often, writing good phone scripts is the deal breaker for a salesperson. The following are key things that you’ll want to incorporate when developing calling scripts: 1. Identify your value The language that communicates the core value that’s offered is a key step often left out of phone scripts. Most of the time, there [...]
Both cold calling and email play such a big role in sales prospecting, so having a cold call email strategy is important. You greatly improve your probability of connecting with the prospect when you combine the two communications methods together into one strategy. Creating and Using Cold Call Email Templates The first thing we [...]
The following are eleven good questions for salespeople. In order to be an effective salesperson, it is about knowing the right questions to ask and not so much about knowing all the answers. 1. Why are you looking to make a change? When speaking with a prospect who is interested in purchasing your products [...]
One of the most important steps in achieving sales excellence is identifying how to qualify a prospect. We need to know what to look for to improve our ability to qualify prospects. There are three qualities that we can easily check for when speaking with prospects. 1. Need to Purchase First, find out if [...]