One of the more powerful closing tactics is the sales takeaway. This tactic is where the salesperson switches from trying to get the prospect to buy the product to trying to take away the option for the prospect to buy the product. How to Do a Sales Takeaway Here are a couple of ways [...]
One tool that you can use to improve closing sales is a partnership plan. This is basically a document that lists out all of the steps that you and the prospect will take together leading up to the purchase and implementation of your product. Here is an example: This sales tool is just a table with [...]
When you are sending cold emails to prospects, do not ask the prospect if they saw or read the emails you have sent them in the past. For example, some salespeople will send a second email that starts with something like this: Did you see my last email? Did you read my last email? You [...]
This is a webinar recording where we share a few tips to help with selling during a global pandemic. Also, Read An Example of a Cold Call Example from Another Financial Advisor
This video is module 1 of a full sales training program called The SMART Sales System. You can go through the full sales training program for free on YouTube. The training aligns with a book by the same name and here are all of the training modules: Introduction to SMART Consultative Selling Building Your Consultative [...]
This is a recording from our webinar where we discussed Chapter 24 in The SMART Sales System which is centered around how to become a great sales closer. If you would like to purchase a copy of The SMART Sales System book, you can do that here. If you would like to register for the 15-week [...]
We recently held a webinar on how to be awesome at business networking, and here is a video of that event. Below are the slides available for download. Our tips start with making some mindset changes as you try to be a better networker. The first change is to shift from a fruit-picking mindset to one [...]
A cross-sell cold call script is a script that you can use to call existing customers to try to upsell them on a different or additional product. Here is how you can create your sales script for cross-selling and upselling existing customers. Introduction Since this is an existing customer, opening the call should be fairly [...]
We held a sales training webinar titled “How to Do Cold Emailing,” and here is the recording. If you sell something, you likely send a cold email. And while cold emailing can be difficult in terms of getting replies and engagement, there are some small things that you can do to improve your results and effectiveness, and [...]
In this podcast, I discuss the analogy that selling to executives is like trying to talk to a pretty girl at a bar. I spend this time diving deep into this analogy not just to give you something to ponder but more so because I believe this analogy can be used as a tool that you can keep [...]