Do you use any email templates when prospecting? If not, you really might want to stop to incorporate those in some way, as you are wasting valuable time. The reason why is that you come across the same exact scenarios again and again when prospecting: You are sending an email to someone you have never [...]
Have you ever had someone say, “Now you’re speaking my language”? This is a really good thing to accomplish as you are saying something that the other person understands and is completely in agreement with. Imagine arriving at this place with prospects when selling. What a great place that would be, huh? Believe it or [...]
When you are cold calling a prospect, the contact will have their guard up at a medium level when they answer the phone. Everything that you say will either increase or decrease their guardedness. If you can simply improve your ability to not trigger their guard so that it either stays level or decreases, you [...]
If you really want to be networking, it is critical to get into as many conversations as possible when at networking events. Here are a few tips that can help you to operate at an optimum level in this area. 1. Get to the event early Whether we are going to a networking event [...]
Has this ever happened to you: You get an invitation to connect on LinkedIn from someone you do not know. You accept the invitation because you believe in networking and growing your network. You then receive a long cold email through LinkedIn from the contact, where they list out all of the things they do [...]
There was a point in my sales career when I sold enterprise software and the message coming down from my management was to have “business conversations” when you are sales prospecting. This was actually a really good directive from the top as what they were saying was to get away with talking about products and [...]
Here are ten sales questions that could immediately improve your sales results. These simple questions can help you to extract key details that will help you to better qualify prospects leading to a healthier pipeline of deals that are easier to close. 1. Why are you looking to make a change? If you are [...]
Sales prospecting is one of the more mentally taxing activities that a salesperson has to perform. Most salespeople love selling and interacting with prospects, but the activity of finding new prospects can often be very difficult and guaranteed to include some amount of rejection, and this can wear on any individual. There are a few [...]
If you can design your cold call script so that you find out what pain and challenges the prospect is experiencing, you will greatly improve your ability to generate leads. Unfortunately, that is a little easier said than done, as pain is often something fairly difficult to uncover in a quick cold call. But there [...]
Phone prospecting is something that most of us do not look forward to. But at some point, it has to be done. Here are some quick tips to help you power through that mental resistance. Schedule time for prospecting Prospecting over the phone is likely just one of the many things that you need [...]