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It’s often said that the best salespeople don’t have to sell; they make it easy for the prospect to make the decision to buy. Even so, companies still need salespeople to actively go out there and show the results that their customers will achieve with their products and services. It’s still possible, though, that some sales are lost either before…
In conversations with salespeople, we sometimes ask if they know the differences between prospects’ needs and prospects’ wants. It may sound pedantic, but it can make a real difference in presenting solutions. Oftentimes, prospects will confuse their wants with their needs and vice versa. Their needs often revolve around the business; their wants often revolve around their personal gains. For…
Gone are the days when you had to wait for your company to build your leads for you. You know what I mean; walking into that sales meeting and anticipating with bated breath what your manager would hand down to you. Those golden nuggets of information that would give you your next sale. Today’s sales professionals know that they themselves…
One of the most precious assets that a company possesses is the quality of their brand. A great brand image can drive sales onward and upward; a lesser image can ultimately destroy a brand’s presence and present. It’s people that make the brand. How customers are treated or served can improve or destroy an image in the customer’s mind, so…
No matter how long you’ve been associated with sales, you’ll never know it all. We’ve worked with sales managers and directors who have been involved in sales all their working lives, sometimes over 40 years, and the evidence of bad leadership exists in the wastelands of their past, through poor motivational techniques, overload of their teams and a determination to…
Salespeople are great conversationalists. That is, they find it easy to discuss opportunities and possibilities with prospects, listening to their needs and wants, and working with them to deliver great products and services. But once in a while, you need a pep up, a lifting of the spirits. Especially if things aren’t going well and sales are drying up. Well,…
We’ve never been so time-poor. With everything inside and outside of our control exerting pressure on us to deliver, it’s not surprising that many things that should be done miss their deadline. One of those things that often goes by the wayside is proper and complete preparation for a sales presentation. Because so many other things are pressing us for…
Most of us would agree that it costs considerably more to get a new customer than to maintain a loyal one. So, it follows that customer retention must be a major component of an effective marketing strategy and that’s especially true for your business. From least desirable to most desirable on the customer-relationship continuum, the sequence is: “new” to “repeat”…
Optimism has been described as a mental attitude reflecting a belief or hope that the outcome of some specific endeavour, or outcomes in general, will be positive, favourable, and desirable. It comes from the Latin ‘Optimum’ meaning ‘best’ and is often used by sales managers when they refer to their sales teams having the right attitude. But when things aren’t…
It’s not easy these days managing a sales team. There’s the external pressures of competition, legislation changes, the economy, client expectations, product development and the like, along with the internal concerns of salesperson morale, budgets, target-setting, product quality and many other things that can affect performance. So, what should sales managers concentrate on to still maintain some kind of control…
