Don't Let Your Salespeople Lose The Human Touch

Technology is a wonderful thing as long as it is used as a sales tool and not a crutch. Let me give you a recent example where I didn’t practice what I preach and it came back to haunt me.

Shorten The Sales Cycle By Finding The Decision Maker As Well As The Prospect's Budget

Learning how to ask the right questions and listen for as much information as possible will help the sales professional find out who makes the final decision and how much money the prospect or client has to spend.

Methods of Protecting Mental Consistency

When we feel cognitive dissonance, we have to find a way to deal with the psychological tension. We have an arsenal of tools at our disposal to help us return to cognitive consistency.

Pre Assessment Prior to Sales Training

The fastest way to de-motivate your very best sales people is to sit them in a room and go over inane things that they already know and could probably teach better in your industry sub-sector than the outside sales trainer that you brought in.

Improper Sales Training Can Cause Burn Out

The easiest way to burn out your employees is to force them into sales positions without proper training. In my company we had set up what I called my; Bonzai Scout Teams and Blitz Marketing Teams, sales was the key.

Are You Selling By The Numbers Only?

For years, sales managers and sales trainers have been saying that sales is a ‘numbers’ game. I can recall my first sales manager telling me over 35 years ago, “If you will see enough people, you will make enough sales.” First of all what’s enough sales? Second of all, how many is enough people? Thirdly, is this the best approach to take to prospect for new business? This is why I hate clich?s and managers and sales trainers who quote them only because that is what they have heard for years.

Learn to Prospect Like a Pro

Tips on making cold calls from someone who has made thousands of these calls.

How to Make Others Feel Important

Many people consider ingratiation sucking up or brown-nosing, but the method works and ingratiation makes people more persuadable.

Sales Training for Freight Forwarders and LTL Shippers

For those in the business of freight they are indeed what makes the World go around and without them well not much would work in our civilization. There would be no food at the grocery stores to eat, nothing in the stores to buy and it would pretty much shut things down leaving people in a very serious place. Chaos would surely ensue.

Sales Challenges In A Competitive Economy

Salespeople face a variety of challenges in their career. Selling is like no other profession in that it requires exceptional people skills as well as the mastery of a great number of specific sales competencies and attitudes that are not generally found in other careers.

Unlearning Is Just As Important As Learning

Without a doubt learning new skills and developing the right attitudes in sales is vital. Without them it is impossible today to ensure your continued success. Whether these new insights come from a mentor or coach, reading, attending seminars, listening to CD’s or just talking with peers or your manager it is essential to continue to hone your abilities if you want to successfully compete in today’s changing world.

Boost Your Sales Results with this Killer Seven Steps Sales Process

Whatever your experience the following ‘Killer Seven Step Sales Process’ can dramatically transform your results from zero-to-hero in no time at all. The reason I know this is because it’s the system I have been using pretty much every working day of my life for the last 20 years.

Insurance Sales Training

Quality insurance sales training is one of the most important aspects of keeping an insurance business profitable and creating a good name for yourself within the community you serve. There are several key components of quality insurance sales training, including needs analysis, features and benefits, objection handling, and closing skills. In addition to these common things, however, a good insurance sales training program will teach the prospective insurance salesperson how to reach out to the customer and build trust.

Free Sales Tip #93: Always Ask For The Sale

Simply asking for the sale has been shown to increase actual sales