Commonly, salespeople believe in order to be successful you need to have persuasive sales skills. Also, there is a common misconception that you somehow have to manipulate prospects to be truly persuasive. Actually, you don’t have to be manipulative at all to be effective in building interest as well as getting prospects to move forward. [...]
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 [...]
There are simple and practical things that can be done to improve your sales results, which makes identifying how to increase your sales not as elusive a goal as you might think. 1. Improve your sales messaging Communicating what you are offering and matching it with the prospect’s needs in order to build interest [...]
Incorporating good sales questions is one of the best ways to improve your sales results. The following are five questions that can reveal valuable information. 1. Why have you made the choice to meet with us? Being salespeople, we always know the reason we want to meet with qualified prospects which is we want [...]
It is very helpful for a salesperson is to have a template for a follow-up sales email. The email could be with information already filled in, and you just change a few details. Then, simply send out the email when needed. A salesperson finds this helpful when cold calling and sales prospecting because one of [...]
It is important that we effectively find out if things are great, OK, or could be better for the prospect in order to improve selling and determine which prospects it makes sense to keep speaking with. In the event that things are simply OK or could be better, there could be pain present, and focusing [...]
When cold calling for sales, you’ll most likely face a gatekeeper. Initially, you’ll need to be aware that just as you’re being trained on selling and cold calling, the gatekeeper is being trained on screening your cold calls. That is one of their precise objectives: to reduce the number of unsolicited sales calls that get [...]
There are clear things that can be done to improve your telesales skills and create a positive impact on your results, which makes selling over the phone a great thing. Read Sales Books Purchasing and reading books that have been written on how to improve phone skills is one of the simplest, most economical, [...]
When attempting to improve selling, it can be very helpful to establish credibility. Displaying strength is one way to accomplish that. Strength means being a well-qualified and adequate salesperson, having a quality product to sell, as well as working with a company that has stability. The following are three simple, easy-to-implement ways to display this. [...]
One thing that many of us try to achieve is figuring out how to be a great salesperson. There are very clear things that we can learn and implement to assist us with this. 1. Continue to learn It is helpful to adopt a philosophy of continuous learning and increasing your knowledge to be [...]
