We recently held a webinar on using sales gamification to improve sales performance. You can watch the recording and download the slides here. What is Sales Gamification? To start to understand what exactly gamification in the area of sales is and how to best do it, let’s start by looking at what exactly gamification is. According to Merriam-Webster, [...]
Number 7 on our list of 10 tips for sales reps is to prepare for sales objections. In my career as an inside and outside salesperson, I worked for six different companies and many different sales managers. During that time, only one manager talked to me about the objections I should expect and what I [...]
Having the right mindset during phone prospecting can sometimes be the difference that takes you to the next level. In this video are some tips to help you improve your mindset. Increase Your Value Awareness When phone prospecting, you can receive a lot of negative feedback from prospects in the form of rejection or a [...]
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 [...]
Whether you are a fan of Tom Brady or not, you must respect his consistent results. In the past 15 years, his team has only missed the playoffs two times. Of those playoff runs, his team went to the Super Bowl six times, winning four of the six appearances. And in all of the other [...]
B2B cold calling can be tough. Not only is it tough to get sales prospects on the phone, but when you do, the prospect may end up being a little difficult or not completely friendly. The first step to improving your ability to deal with difficult or unfriendly prospects is to stop and try to [...]
It can be tricky to provide sales coaching when you also play the role of sales manager. For real high-quality coaching, you will want a real open line of communication between the coach and the person being coached. This will allow the salesperson to be very open with sharing what is going on. A salesperson [...]
In the cult classic sales movie titled Glengarry Glen Ross, there is this scene where Alec Baldwin’s character outlines a sales process that uses the acronym A-I-D-A. While the movie is quite entertaining, this scene reminds me of many things that I feel are missing from sales processes and techniques that are taught to salespeople. Here [...]
Looking to sell like a pro? Begin by stopping to think about a professional football player or professional athlete. How does he (or she) prepare? Does he jump right into the game without taking any steps to prepare ahead of time? Of course not. There are actually two things that he will invest time and [...]
Building a sales role-play is a good step in the right direction. However, one critical step to take after that is to practice the script and perform some sort of sales role-playing. The last thing that you want to do is read from a script when sales prospecting. And just reading over the script and [...]
