Successful salespeople typically have specific sales habits that result in consistent results. When you’re motivated to improve your sales performance, you can include some of these habits and see improved results.

 

1. Being more organized

A salesperson’s life can be quite hectic. The reason for this could be there’s much to do and things often move very fast. To assist successful salespeople in better dealing with this, while remaining effective and efficient, focus on improving your ability to keep organized.

Some areas in which being organized helps improve results are how organized you are with your time and schedule, how organized you are with how you manage the customer and prospect information, as well as, how organized you are with how you manage pipeline information.

 

2. Getting in front of target prospects

Successful salespeople are dependent on their ability to get in front of target prospects. Many different ways exist to do this, but the key to effectiveness in this area can vary for different sales positions.

Basically, find ways to make this happen and there are things that you can do to improve your ability to do the same. Some examples of areas in which you can invest time and energy to improve results are utilizing tools such as cold calling, professional networking as well and the use of social media.

 

3. Building relationships

Mostly all of us are in agreement that prospects buy from salespeople that they like. As a result of this, successful salespeople have the ability to be effective in building rapport and relationships with prospects.

Some think you are who you are and prospects will either like you or not. In reality, there are some simple and practical things that can be done to make prospects more comfortable around you as well as increase the level of rapport.

 

4. Qualifying prospects

A person can work only so many hours weekly. As a result of this, it is important to get as much as you can out of each hour you have. In doing so you’ll want to spend as much time as you can with quality prospects. These are prospects who are a good fit with what you’re offering and have the authority to make a purchase.

Successful salespeople are efficient in qualifying prospects, which minimizes the time spent with prospects who have a low chance of purchasing. The key to success with this is asking good qualifying questions.

 

5. Managing sales cycles

The choice is yours, either let the sales cycle control you or you control the sales cycle. Clear sales process stages are there that you should be navigating deals through and there are simple things that can be done to manage this as well as be more effective at navigating deals from one sales cycle stage to the next one.

Identifying the different sales stages for your selling process is something you will want to focus on. Determining where the prospect is in their buying process as well as when they’ll be having the need to buy are equally important for successful salespeople.

SalesScripter provides sales consulting to businesses, helping them to produce successful salespeople.