"Does cold calling work?" is one of the most commonly asked or debated questions. If you have asked this question, check out our webinar recording, which is simply titled "Does cold calling work?" You can probably guess how we will answer that question, but we will spend this time together to discuss the challenges that [...]
When it comes to making cold calls, whether you don’t have time or the desire, it can be easy to find an excuse not to pick up the phone. Because of this, many salespeople try to only use email to generate leads. While we believe the best way to generate leads consistently is to use [...]
Sales role-play scripts are an important tool to help you improve sales. Here are some key sections to include in your sales role-play scripts. Gatekeeper Introduction It is very reasonable to expect that almost half of phone prospecting calls will be answered by a gatekeeper. Many gatekeepers aim to screen out salespeople, so it [...]
The term consultative selling can get thrown around a lot. But what exactly does that mean? To bring clarity to that question, we will take a step back and compare consultative sales with a more traditional type of selling, and in this exercise, we will call that product selling. One big difference between consultative selling [...]
You hear salespeople and sales managers use the term consultative sales. But the reality is that the majority of people who talk about this are not performing consultative selling at all. To demonstrate this, in this video, we outline what is not consultative sales. In this video, we list out what sales reps often and [...]
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 [...]
One of the biggest things that can hurt your sales is wasting time talking to poor-quality sales prospects. Your time is extremely valuable and every hour spent on a sales prospect that has a low probability of purchasing should be avoided if possible. We Sometimes Try to Sell to Everybody The challenge is that we [...]
One of the best ways to improve the performance and sales of your salespeople is to provide a sales playbook. A playbook is a set of instructions and sales tools that can be provided to a sales team to provide clarity and direction on how to generate sales. Components of a Sales Playbook A playbook [...]
Sales staff turnover is extremely costly to a business. Not only does it take a lot of money to recruit, hire, and provide sales training, but there is also a tremendous cost in terms of deals lost when salespeople are replaced, and new sales hires are ramped up and trained. The good news is that [...]
As you try to determine which sales prospects to pursue and which ones you should continue to invest time in, it can help to have clarity around which ones are likely to purchase from you. Your time is very valuable, and you need to protect it from being wasted on poor-quality sales prospects. To improve your ability [...]