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In today’s marketplace of shrinking budgets, growing competition and modern, sophisticated buyers, establishing stronger client loyalty is not easy. There always stands a competitor ready to offer lower prices and higher value, while buyers are also looking to play companies off one another in search of the best deal. It should be obvious to anyone in business today, that to establish…
The sales interaction went well. The prospect seems very interested, and you feel that you have covered all of the possible objections. However, the prospect sees no reason or need to act NOW. Even though you can expose problems the buyer is having, unless the prospect can see an urgent reason to act today, the natural reaction is to stall, to…
No matter how good your discussions have been with a prospect, there will come a time when you simply have to talk about lowering your prices. Even though you’ve built up your value, it still seems the prospect wants to shave a few pennies from your price in order to satisfy their innate desire to feel they have ‘made a…
It’s an exciting time when you meet a client or prospect for the first time. It can also be nerve-jangling as you try to make a good impression, so your products or services virtually sell themselves. Opening the first meeting contains a whole load of interesting phenomena. You are trying to build rapport; you want to make that great first…
One thing many salespeople tell us is that, when they are in a sales meeting, the prospect often will derail the subject or cause objections to be raised. In fact, they do anything but agree to buy the product! It’s not surprising that often the prospect will be disengaged from you. They are trying to see if the product you…
If you had the chance to listen in to the salespeople who made the least sales, and learn from them what NOT to do, would you take it? You bet your Granddad’s last Werther’s Original you would! Well, on some of our sales courses, we’ve been gathering information that sums up what the worst salespeople out there actually do, and…
You are all ready to go. You have all of your leads for the day prepared and lined up in front of you. You have all of your rebuttals ready, and you have rehearsed your main talking points. You are ready to begin your cold calling session. You pick up the telephone and make the first call. The prospect was…
What strikes me as strange and rather puzzling is a piece of research I read this week that said less than 10% of salespeople actually follow up a prospect more than once after they have sent a proposal. I had to read that twice before it sunk in. What causes it? Lack of time? No desire? Carelessness? Laziness? I don’t…
How do you get prospects to return your calls? Of course, it seems impossible to get a return call from leaving a message on a cold call. However, sales people also have problems getting calls returned from warm calls, or referrals given by satisfied customers. So, what is it that you have to do in a voice mail to get…
You know the feeling. It seems that after all of the training, the teaching, the sales contests, rewards and prize money; still there are too many on your sales team who routinely turn in lacklustre performances and barley survive. Sales contests, incentive prize money and recognition will cost you a bundle, and if it does not provide a significant return…
