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 easiest traps for us to fall into when sales prospecting is trying to sell to everybody. Or at least trying to sell to everybody who gives us their time. The reality is that regardless of what you sell, not everybody fits well with what you have to offer. Or they might fit [...]
When working on qualifying sales during cold calls, lightly qualify first because we’re simply attempting to determine if it makes sense for everybody to keep investing their time in the conversation. Some examples of what to look at when asking light qualifying questions are general questions that identify if things are great, ok, or have [...]
It can be the difference between failure and success depending on the sales call questions that you ask. Initially, break down the first two different sales process stages to help in outlining what questions you should ask. The first conversation is the initial stage. Setting an appointment is the second stage. There are different questions [...]
Having the ability to effectively collect information from prospects is one of the keys for how to increase company sales. The optimal way to extract more information is by asking open-ended sales questions. Looking at Closed-Ended Questions First Before discussing how to incorporate good open-ended questions, let’s discuss closed-ended questions. Questions that can be [...]
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 [...]
Sometimes it may seem like something that is out of your control or that you need luck when figuring out how to be an effective salesperson. There are clear and practical things that you can do to become consistently more effective and successful as a salesperson, not just necessarily by being in the right place [...]
One of the most important steps in achieving sales excellence is identifying how to qualify a prospect. We need to know what to look for to improve our ability to qualify prospects. There are three qualities that we can easily check for when speaking with prospects. 1. Need to Purchase First, find out if [...]
One of the most important steps for a salesperson to take is qualifying a prospect because time is limited and one of our most valuable resources. It is important that we get as much out of the time that we have to work with as possible because time cannot be replaced. To improve sales performance, [...]