Field Sales
Virtual Selling – Your Motive Is Ultimately Transparent
Here’s a disruptive truth for you: the receptivity of your audience has more impact on your success than the power of your message. Think about planting. A seed that lands on concrete doesn’t germinate. If the soil isn’t fertile, the quality of the seed just doesn’t matter. Creating fertile soil always precedes planting. During the…
Read More2 Simple Steps for Handling Customer Objections
Can you hear me now? You must remember that ad from a few years ago. Well, I recently upgraded to a new cell phone. It took two trips to the store and two different sales people. When the first salesperson attempted to close with, “Is that the one you think you’d like?” I wasn’t…
Read MoreProspect Your Way to Selling Success – Step 4: Remove Tension
Steps one, two and three focused on navigating the obvious barriers to getting more meetings with decision makers. This next step is about addressing perhaps the most ominous challenge – one that’s never verbally communicated but is always present. Step Four: Remove the Tension In almost every interaction between seller and prospect, a certain tension…
Read MoreProspect Your Way to Selling Success – Step 3: 3-Minute Meeting
If you’ve been following me on this step-by-step approach to filling your pipeline, you already know how to capture the prospect’s attention and the best answer to the question: “Why meet?” Next, we need to move this total stranger from “this looks interesting” to giving up their most precious resource: time. The best way to…
Read MoreProspect Your Way to Selling Success – Step 2: “Why Meet?”
If you understand and implement the principles offered in Step One, you will get the prospect’s attention. As the suit guy says, “I guarantee it.” Like unexpectedly jumping out from behind a door, there are some predictable things you can do to control eyeballs when facing obstacles to prospecting. The next step is a bit…
Read MoreProspecting in Sales Requires Relationship Building. Does Your Team Know How?
Managing a sales team has its own unique set of challenges when it comes to selling and building customer relationships — especially when prospecting over the phone. Even the most well-meaning sales reps might be unsuccessful when encountering certain obstacles in the prospecting process. So, how do you handle the challenges that arise when prospecting…
Read MoreProspect Your Way to Selling Success – Step 1: Attention
For the past 25 years, we’ve been studying what I (and most sellers) believe is the most difficult aspect of selling: prospecting. Whether you’re an account manager or biz development rep, hunter or farmer, your income and value are based on the revenue you create. Whether hunting for new accounts or hunting within existing accounts,…
Read MoreSales Training Objectives: Implementing a Successful Sales Program
We’ve recently discussed the biggest pitfalls of sales training objectives, from believing sales program effectiveness relies solely on the front-line to trying to tackle too many deficiencies at once. For this last post, we’re honing in on the last, and maybe the most important, pitfall: The assumption that generic sales training strategy will work for…
Read MoreWhy Sales Training Programs Aren’t Exclusively A Front-Line Responsibility
In our previous post, What’s More Important in Top Sales Training Courses: Measuring Behaviors or Outcomes? we discussed the importance of measuring the effectiveness of sales training courses by behaviors rather than outcomes. In this blog post, we’re highlighting another leading problem with sales training programs: focusing the initiative exclusively on front-line employees rather than…
Read MoreWhat’s More Important in Top Sales Training Courses: Measuring Behaviors or Outcomes?
In our last post, 2 Ways Sales Training Courses Can Develop Your Sales Management & Reps in 2019, we talked about a serious problem in top sales training courses: Investing more in what happens in the workshop than after. In this post, we’re focusing on another leading problem with sales training courses: measuring behaviors instead…
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