When attempting to improve selling, one of the fastest ways to improve results is by improving your ability to find pain. Pain means the impact felt when something isn’t working well or could be better. It is important to effectively find out if things are great, okay, or could be better for the prospect in [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
It is critical to get to the ultimate decision-maker in order to drive sales maximization. First, you must identify how much power the prospects you are speaking with have. We understand this can sometimes seem like a touchy subject to talk about, but there are two very easy ways to find out how much power [...]
You can incorporate some very clear and practical sales habits to likely see a positive impact on your sales results. 1. Wake up early Flexibility is typically allowed with most professional sales jobs on when to start the day. You can either take advantage of this from a comfort standpoint by starting at a [...]
Sometimes it may seem like something that is out of your control or that you need luck when figuring out how to be an effective salesperson. There are clear and practical things that you can do to become consistently more effective and successful as a salesperson, not just necessarily by being in the right place [...]
One of the most important steps for a salesperson to take is qualifying a prospect because time is limited and one of our most valuable resources. It is important that we get as much out of the time that we have to work with as possible because time cannot be replaced. To improve sales performance, [...]
We need to try to build interest on a cold call once we have uncovered any pain that the prospect is experiencing on a cold call. At this point, we will begin to take all of the stuff that we have been listening to and begin to share with them some of the details that [...]