Fearless Calling is a learnable skill. Getting the first appointment with a new prospect is one of the keys to a successful sales career. Joe Pici has helped thousands of sales professionals set more appointments. Come away from today’s podcast with a plan to set more appointments and begin calling on prospects fearlessly.
Do you have enough quality appointments with the right prospects? Ask any salesperson, good or bad; killing it or struggling. Most of them will tell you they need more leads, and more accounts. While that is certainly not always true there are cases where leads are fine but what truly leads to more business, more deals won, and unprecedented results is increasing the number of quality appointments with the right prospects. Simple put Quality matters fare more than quantity.
Not all salespeople are the same. In the book Authentic Selling Jason Cutter, CEO of Cutter Consulting Group shares the concept behind the Authentic Selling Approach and sees himself as a sales success architect for companies and individuals.
Business as we know it has changed forever. Today we talk about the Sales and Business Pivots for Future Growth that owners, leaders, and sales professionals need to make to thrive in the future.
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With the pandemic in full effect now more than ever you need to make sure, we’re all coming out of a calendar quarter like none of us have ever experienced before. This episode provides some tips and ways to bring your deals in to make your 2020 half-year.
Phones Sales Skills lacking? Selling over the phone isn’t just for low end offers. In the B2B world for decades millions of dollars get sold over the phone every day.
Hope everyone is safe and well and given the circumstances business is good. Given a number of my clients and friends have been impacted by having their sales teams begin to work remotely. On Monday we did a super quick live selling over the phone training that built on the Phone Sales Skills post from last week and then quickly covered listening skills and best practices for leaving a voicemail .
Listening Skills Phone Selling Over the Phone
Generally speaking the stereo type fits for many people not just sales professionals. We talk too much and listen too little. One Mouth Two Ears. Sure there should be interactive two way dialogue and naturally flowing conversation. So in short your role is not to perform a soliloquy nor should your questions reassemble and interrogation from Law and Order.
Ask a Question and Shut Up. Being direct let the customer speak,
Respond if the Customer Ask a Question
It’s Not About You – Make it About the Customer’s Needs.
Question, Clarify, Paraphrase and Repeat
Using Mute as Your Super Power
Active Note Taking
The Art of the Voicemail
Voicemail when used correctly can be a powerful tool to engage current customers, make your name recognizable to prospects and new contacts, and occasional get a call back.
Script vs. Talking Points
Slow Your Speech Pattern Down to get the Best Results
Get to the Point Don’t babble on about nothing
Ask for an Action or Response
Repeat your Name
Leave Your Call Back Number Twice
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How Sales Reps look at their book of business is critically important. In the episode Tim take on Account Segmentation at the individual contributor level and challenges the notion that more accounts are always better and take you though looking at not just the 80/20 rule but at how by focusing on fewer accounts and going deeper helps your business grow.
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Often times sales people think of call reluctance as something that only happens to newer sales people. People who are simply afraid to pick up the phone because they are “green” or “simply don’t have what it takes” to make it in sales.
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“CRM Short Comings – What Your CRM isn’t Telling You”. It takes on the age-old question of pipeline, forecast, and commit as debated in sales meetings. Your Customer Relationship Management Systems are powerful tools for collecting contacts, and managing opportunities, and looking at general pipeline information. Despite that, they do leave gaps in salespeople and business leaders’ knowledge.
Steve’s approach to SalesOpportunity Management means you can go from “what you think you know” to “what you actually know” Moving from fiction to fact when it comes to your best opportunities to win business and competitive position.