Category - Sales

12
Jul

Relationship Selling is Dead

Is your selling strategy based upon building solid relationships through the sales rep’s likeability factor? If so, you are getting a declining return on the sales rep’s ability to get new business or even maintain existing customers. Most sales reps are very high in the red or relationship quadrant. (Whole Brain Thinking) (Herrmann) They have good people skills …

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7
Jul

Sales Productivity- Lessons Learned from the Least Busy

Busyness does not necessarily equate to productivity. John Lee, writes in his blog Lessons Learned from the Least Busiest People that real productivity comes from a free mind, not a busy mind. I love his example of the surgeon running from one meeting to another while also trying to stay focused to operate on a person, …

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5
Jul

9 Do Not “Dos” To Improve Your Sales Productivity

Productivity in Selling Tim Ferriss does an excellent job in addressing the habits or “to dos’ that we do that kill one’s productivity. In sales, the temptation is that if you are not answering emails, then you are not being customer focused. Unfortunately, that is not true. Emails start controlling you  and you lose focus, …

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23
Jun

20 Causes of Sales Problems

20 Causes of Sales Problems Below are 20 problems that cause VP of Sales and business owners great distress. These mostly sales process issues that result in poor sales. If you are having less than stellar sales results, see if one or more of these reasons are the culprit. 1) Belief that price is the …

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21
Jun

11 Ways to Build Trust

11 Ways to Build Trust In the last blog I talked about how building trust reduces objections. I will now cover 11 ways you can build trust with your prospective clients. With trust, you want to demonstrate three key traits: Empathy, Credibility and Competency.. Empathy = the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, …

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17
Jun

How to Reduce Objections- Focus on Building Trust

Reducing Objections Through Building Trust Howard Stevens writes in the book Achieve Sales Excellence that there are 4 key criteria buyers use when deciding to make a buying decision and the percentage weight given in that buying decision. Those are: 1) Sales Rep’s Competence – the ability to build trust and add value – 39% of the …

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15
Jun

No Questions – No Sale – Improving the close ratio

No Questions – No Sale – Improving the closing ratio Jill Konrath makes a great point in her latest blog about sabotaging the sale by not asking enough questions. sabotaging the sale A good sales rep relates the product or service features to true business situations. If you are quick to answer the customer’s problem before …

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29
May

The Economy is Changing… Are You?

Well, that didn’t last long. Just six years after the end of the Great Recession, another one might be looming right around the corner. The China stock market is in free fall, plunging 47 percent since hitting its peak last summer. Oil prices remain volatile, presenting a significant risk to financial companies. Retailers are struggling, …

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26
May

Questions are few = losing the sale

No Questions – No Sale Jill Konrath makes a great point in her latest blog about sabotaging the sale by not asking enough questions. sabotaging the sale A good sales rep relates the product or service features to true business situations. If you are quick to answer the customer’s problem before understanding how the problem impacts …

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3
May

New Product, New Approach: How to Make the Launch Successful

Sometimes, you only get one chance to get it right. Ask Minnesota Viking Blair Walsh. Or David Hasselhoff, who tried to parlay a successful career in Hollywood into a career as a singer. And then there are the marketers behind “New Coke.” They all found out how important it is to get it right when …

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