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 [...]
Being good at closing a sale does not require being manipulative or pushy. If you want to be a better closer, you need to make sure you are asking the right questions. This video is a clip from a webinar that we hosted on questions that you can ask when you are closing a sale. Trial [...]
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 [...]
The best salesperson is the one who asks the best, and in this sales training webinar, we outline how to improve your ability to get your salespeople to ask the right questions. It Can be Tough Getting Salespeople to Ask the Right Sales Questions This can be a difficult thing to do because not only [...]
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 [...]
One of the most powerful sales tactics is the sales takeaway. This refers to the sales tactic where you actually take away what you are trying to sell to either motivate the prospect to move forward or to fully disqualify the prospect and move on. But while this is a great sales tactic to use, [...]
This video contains a webinar that focuses on helping you build and maintain mental strength while selling. The Profession of Selling Can Be an Emotional Rollercoaster This is an important topic because being a salesperson can be really tough. Regardless of how good you are or not, there are simply highs and lows. Deals [...]
One of the most essential elements to include in a new sales hire onboarding process is a step for sales role-play. This would consist of practicing sales scenarios before a sales hire is put into action. Decrease the Amount of Learning Through Trial and Error There is no way to teach a new sales hire [...]
In a previous blog post, we discussed how to use soft closing questions. There are also times when you will want to be more direct and hard close a sales prospect. Here are some examples of hard closing questions and some explanations for each closing question. Are you ready to move forward to the next [...]