Closing Skills

What Is The Sales Velocity Formula?

Sales… ”The act of transaction between two or more parties where goods and services are exchanged for payment” Velocity… ”The speed of something in a common direction” You may have heard of the term ‘Sales Velocity Formula’ and even discussed […]

Sales Follow Up Statistics You Need To Know

Sit back and just imagine for a moment just how easier your role as a salesperson would be if you could ask for the sale and they said yes every time on the first meeting. Hello! Come back to reality […]

Powerful Sales Closing Questions & Skills That Will Seal The Deal

  Closing the sale is not a skill that can be learned in isolation from the rest of the sales process. Closing is one element in a chain of events that begins with the salesperson planning and preparing for sales […]

The 3 Best Sales Transition Closing Statements

  I still receive numerous questions regarding what to say, or how to transition from the sales presentation to asking for the sale. Questions on WHEN to begin to close as well as exactly HOW to start the closing process. […]

What Is Cross Selling And Up-Selling?

  The difference between cross-selling and upselling is quite subtle. Both are different types of selling in their own right and offer different opportunities for increasing your margins and sales at the point of sale. Chances are that you’ve already […]

Five Needs Your Buyers Would Love You To Satisfy

When we talk to different buyer types, we often ask what inspires them to remain loyal to suppliers. Many suppliers think it’s good value, cheap prices, and quality products. There are many different types of selling but the answers we […]

The 4 Most Common Buyer Types In Sales (And How To Sell To Them!)

One feature of modern, relationship-selling is that we need to understand about peoples’ preferred buying behaviour if we are to sell to more of them. It is a fact that people buy differently. They can be known as buyer types. […]

3 Buying Motives Of The Modern-Day Buyer

Selling today is all about recognising the true motivations of buyers and aligning your presentation/solution to match their needs and desires. We all know that. So, with an up-to-date buyer, who has little in the way of time and resources […]

Sales Phrases That Will Close The Deal

We had an enquiry last month from a sales manager who asked us to work with his sales team for half-a-day on closing techniques. He said his team was good at relationship-building but when it came to the close, they […]

5 Ways To Guarantee A ‘Yes’ From The Decision Maker

  The title of this blog a bold statement. But we have experienced many meetings with decision-makers where these ways have proved successful. I’m going to share them with you in this article. How many times have you thought that […]

9 Things Your Buyer Wants You To Know

Very often, we go out in the field with a great deal of knowledge about our products, our services, our competition, our prices and our industry. That’s great, and this knowledge is imperative for our confidence as well for generating […]

Sending A Following Up On Our Conversation Email

  Have you ever heard of the statistic that says that 48% of salespeople never follow up with a prospect? Yes, it’s fake, but still, most salespeople are bad at following up. There are a lot of sales follow up […]

3 Times When You SHOULD Take NO For An Answer

Well, we all know the old sales person’s mantra, “Never take NO for an answer!” Indeed, some sales people try to live by this greed. However, in attempting to live up to such a rigid and unrealistic standard, sales people often […]

The ABC of Selling

  You might think that this article is about the famous line: Always Be Closing! It isn’t. It’s about something completely different and in my opinion will be much more valuable to you than those hard selling words of the […]

4 Ways To Press Those Reptilian Buying Buttons

  Every person you have ever met has a strategy they use to make decisions. Whether it’s to go for a particular food or to choose a particular career, the way people decide is hard-wired into the parts of our […]

Ten Things Buyers Look For From Their Suppliers

We do quite a few surveys with buyers of our services and it’s always intriguing to find out why they buy from us. Many times we have been surprised by their answers or their responses to specific questions that we […]

5 Ways To Gain Commitment From A Client

We often get salespeople asking “What’s the best ‘close’ I can use?” or “How can I ‘close the sale’ more often?” Putting the emphasis on the ‘close’ can be a big mistake in the sales process. Too often, the salesperson […]

Understanding Different Buyer Types – Infographic

As a sales person, you cannot simply use the same sales techniques to sell to every prospects because not all prospects are the same. Each buyer will have a different way of thinking, a different way of understanding and a […]

How Digital Influence Affects The Buying Decision

  You don’t need me to tell you that we need to increase and improve our customers’ experiences for them to develop loyalty and advocacy to our businesses. Depending too much on new customers rather than selling more to existing ones […]

How To Follow Up If You Lose A Sale

There will be occasions when the prospect does not go with your solution and chooses either to do nothing or go with a competitor. Even if you have the best solution available to the client, their buying decision may lie […]