While setting a first sales call appointment can seem more difficult than going on the appointment, you can't just show up for the appointment and completely improvise if you want to have consistent results. In this webinar, we outline what you can do to have awesome appointments with prospects. Three Common Traps that You [...]
Here are some quick tips for how to have the best sales emails. 1. Don’t sound like a salesperson trying to sell something in your email. The place that we want to start with our sales tips on how to have the is to start with the point that your prospects are going to get [...]
The second tip on our list of 10 telemarketing tips is to begin with an elevator pitch. What is an Elevator Pitch An elevator pitch is one to two sentences that explain how you help. A key thing to keep in mind here is that this is not an explanation of what you sell. More [...]
We recently held a sales training webinar on 10 inside sales tips that will transform your game. You can view the video and download the slides here. Tip #1 - Don’t Sound like a Salesperson Trying to Sell Something The first inside sales tip is to try to minimize how much you sound like a [...]
A key tactic for your script for appointment setting is to share some examples of the problems that you help to fix. A good time to do this is after you ask some of your pre-qualifying questions. If you ask some of your questions and you don’t get any answers that give you a reason [...]
When teleprospecting, you will typically spend a lot of time talking with gatekeepers. But there are actually different types of gatekeepers, and knowing how they differ can help you figure out how to avoid them. Front-Desk Receptionist One of the more common gatekeepers you will encounter when teleprospecting is a front-desk receptionist. This person is usually [...]
When telephone prospecting, you can sometimes spend up to 50% of your time dealing with gatekeepers. With that being such a large percentage, if you can improve your ability to get around the gatekeeper, you can expect to see an immediate improvement in your results. Here are a few tips to help you with getting [...]
When setting appointments over the phone, you can improve your results by staying laser-focused on the right goal. The reason we are putting this step out there is that at any point in a sales cycle, you will likely have two goals: Ultimate Goal: Close the sale, sell the product, get a new client Immediate [...]
Setting appointments can be a key part of a salesperson's job. While this can sometimes seem challenging, there are some small steps that can make it easier, and we outlined those in this recent sales training webinar. Step 1 – Focus on the Right Goal The first step in this process is to focus [...]
Here are some quick sales tips for how to start a sales pitch. How to NOT Start a Sales Pitch Before we talk about how to start a sales pitch, we want to point out how to NOT start your pitch. Try to Avoid Sounding Like a Salesperson Even though you are indeed a [...]