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Prospects lose interest in your pitch for many reasons. So before they do, use it to meet more and higher level people to generate shared interest. Prepare Yourself 1. Your attitude has to always be, “Get to the leaders.” A prospect’s interest doesn’t mean much if you haven’t talked to the leader. Subordinates can be helpful, but don’t expect them to sell your offering to their bosses. It requires effort and risk for a questionable reward for them.

Let’s say you’re a C-Level executive or a staff manager doing your job and someone comes into your office. Who would you rather sit opposite: (1) a detective trying to interrogate you about what you’re doing, or how you’re doing your business or (2) an interested person (maybe a friend) asking what kind of problems or challenges you’re having today with an aspect of your business ….., and what would you like to do about them? Interrogating

“When the student is ready the teacher will appear.” The other day, a board member was lamenting on the poor performance of his company. So I said, "You should hire me to help your company get more sales." To which he replied, "Not right now, Sam. The timing's not right." So I said, "Timing?? Let me ask you, if you could get more sales, would that help your company's performance?" He of course said, "Yes."

Is cross-selling in your 2008 future? If not it should be. It is the easiest way to make more sales. That’s because you have relationships and if you know how to use them, it translates to easy sales, better pricing, elimination of any budget issues, and no competitive involvement. Now for the ...Is cross-selling in your 2008 future? If not it should be. It is the easiest way to make more sales. That’s because you have relationships and if you know how to use them, it translates to easy sales, better pricing, elimination of any budget issues, and no competitive involvement.

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Now we’ve all had them. If you haven’t had them, then you will have them. If you have had them, then you know exactly what I am talking about. And those are the most difficult sales people, the ones that are motivated through a variety of different motivations, but the biggest one is the need to be assertive and to have power of their own. And these are typically the type of sales people that are highly opinionated, they are brash at times, they are boorish at tim

Filling the pipeline with qualified leads is crucial to the growth of your business. As a savvy business owner, you have to put a lead generation system in place that works for you, using powerful strategies to attract more prospects and maximizing the potential of your target market. Here are three excellent tips to keep in mind to improve the results of your lead generation campaign and bring in more customers: Conduct a ‘motivation’ meeting

The key to any good proposal or presentation is the pre-work. Any company can close 33% of what’s in their pipeline. Better companies closing ratios are greater than 60%. That’s 60% of what they forecast or what’s in their pipeline. If you’re not winning at this ratio, then either you are ...The key to any good proposal or presentation is the pre-work. Any company can close 33% of what’s in their pipeline. Better companies closing ratios are greater than 60%. That’s 60% of what they forecast or what’s in their pipeline.

I was on a mission to do a few things at the Mall the other day. I was what’s called a motivated buyer. I dashed into one of the optical chain stores, and there at the reception counter was a middle-aged woman talking on the phone to a friend about being reprimanded or something. After seeing ...I was on a mission to do a few things at the Mall the other day. I was what’s called a motivated buyer. I dashed into one of the optical chain stores, and there at the reception counter was a middle-aged woman talking on the phone to a friend about being reprimanded or something.

"Start with the end in mind," as Steven Covey of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People says. So let's start with booking the order and work towards where the selling process starts. 1. How Do You Get the Order? Get all the powerful people - especially the most powerful person - to commit to your offering. This is the person with the ability to say yes and it happens. Don't be fooled by those who can say no. Anyone can get you eliminated.

Part I, Active Networking For salespeople to be effective lead generators, they must have both active and passive marketing programs. Now (1) their marketing program must be their own -- not the company’s (although the two can be in sync with each other), and (2) they will do both, halfheartedly or not at all unless you the sales manager shows them how and holds them accountable. Accountability means setting goals, actions and measurements. Then, review progress on a regular schedule to give meaningful feedback and motivation to reach agreed-upon metrics.

Credibility is the key to success with the C-Suite executives and other high powered influencers. The problem is how to do this quickly so they don’t tire of you or refuse to meet. Respect, trust and presumption of results are the 3 steps to credibility

Cross selling is the fastest and easiest way to generate more revenues and at higher profits. Cross sales are also the easiest sales. They have a 3 times higher closing ratio than selling any of your products to a new customer. So do you have a cross selling process operating in your sales system? Let’s investigate.

One thing that you should remember in your lead generation campaign is that selling is not an inborn talent. It can be nurtured in almost anyone. What you need are the proper tools and methodology to maximize the learning curve of your potential sales people. You need them to be in their top form if you wish to succeed in generating sales leads. Of course, you also have to consider the learning styles of different people. No one is the same, so to speak, and that includes lea

“A sale begins anywhere you get your foot in the door. A sale ends in the C-suite.” Never doubt that C-level executives are involved in the initiation and approval of a sale. But you must interview the C-level executives first to learn what's important to them before presenting. Then show you'll deliver the results and benefits that each one personally wants. Don’t assume all the C-level execs want the same – they usually don’t. In this way you’ll win each C-level executive's vote, and you'll continue selling to that account.

There are hundreds!… But here are 5 to start you off… 1.THE UNPREPARED TRAINER Have you ever been on a course where the person running it clearly hasn’t done any preparation?

The marketing components that used to generate leads -- product, performance, promotion and price -- are no longer effective. The tools for selling -- lots of sales calls, lunches, golf and give-always -- are expensive and inefficient. In the 21st century, selling and business development ...The marketing components that used to generate leads -- product, performance, promotion and price -- are no longer effective. The tools for selling -- lots of sales calls, lunches, golf and give-always -- are expensive and inefficient.

Competitors are constantly approaching your top customers and their C-level executive staffs with offers of better, easier, and cheaper. If you’re nothing special to the high ranking staff you’re vulnerable to replacement. If any of the staff had missed expectations, you’ll be talked about negatively and again vulnerable. If you haven’t stayed in touch reinforcing your ability to assist with opportunities or mitigate threats in their business or job functions, you’re not top of mind when competition promotes how they can be of better service.

Large Account Management requires knowledge of where the account is going with respect to it's customers, competitors, industry and the economy. This knowledge is housed in the heads of the profit-center leader and his or her staff. So anyone that wants to manage a large account has to get to ...Large Account Management requires knowledge of where the account is going with respect to it's customers, competitors, industry and the economy. This knowledge is housed in the heads of the profit-center leader and his or her staff.

1. Sell in the C-Suiter Don’t bypass the subordinates, but don’t get stuck there either. C-levels are looking for value, not price. Subordinates are looking for whatever they think their boss, the C-level, General Manager, Profit Center leader wants. Only the C-level boss knows what s/he wants. It’s up to you to find out. 2. Don’t confuse price with affordability.

Fears, excuses, uneasiness, rationalizations, intimidations all stem from negative projection. The doctor is too busy. The doctor doesn’t see salespeople. The doctor doesn’t care who they have selected. These, plus a whole range of other statements about this doctor, are excuses - rationalizations. 99.99% of the time they are projections that you have created either by yourself or with the help of a blocker. A doctor is too busy is an excuse. Too busy to listen to a sales pitch - that I can agree with. Too busy to learn how something will affect her practice - I don’t think so.

Most sales people make two key mistakes when building a large account plans or as I like to call them relationship plans. First they build the plan by themselves or with the help of their teammates instead of with the inputs from the C-levels and influential people of the large account. Second, they don’t hold themselves and the large account’s people accountable for the actionable ideas generated.

President Obama could learn from a C-Level selling expert. He’s having issues persuading senators and congress people to support gun control, immigration reform, budgets, debt ceilings and more. These are powerful people, just like the ones sales people encounter or try to encounter in their endeavors to make sales and/or win projects. So there are, among others, two critical and relevant problems when trying to win over powerful people and there are strategies and tactics to help eliminate them.

For people new to C-Level Selling getting to executives, knowing who the right executives are is a problem. This is followed by getting to the executives and then developing professional relationships with them. The right executives are the profit-center leader and his or her staff. These ...For people new to C-Level Selling getting to executives, knowing who the right executives are is a problem. This is followed by getting to the executives and then developing professional relationships with them.

Need to build a high performance sales culture quickly? Have a desire for sustainable sales results? If you are like me, you understand mediocre sales results will implode your business given our current economic environment and competition being so fierce. Additionally, there are far too many ...

I can't help but compare Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson to selling. Tiger Woods came in second place at the Tour Championship, yet walked away with $10 million as the FedEx Cup champion and $800,000 for his second-place finish. Phil Mickelson walked away with $3 million for the FedEx Cup and $1.35 million for winning the tou ament. The comment by Phil was "Let me get this straight. I shoot a 65 and win $1.3 million and Tiger shoots a 70 and wins $10 million?" That's right. Tiger was consistent over time. Phil had a great day.

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Customers choose vendors based on the perception that something important is better from one company than another. “Better” simply boils down to three (3) factors – more benefits, less risks, and/or least effort. Many believe selection is based on price. I say not really. A “better” deal – ...Customers choose vendors based on the perception that something important is better from one company than another. “Better” simply boils down to three (3) factors – more benefits, less risks, and/or least effort.

Most training for salespeople comes from corporate marketing which sends the message that your mission is to tell prospects about us, convince people to buy, and discuss why you are superior to competition. This is marketing – trying to generate interest.

Sometime it’s tough to know who actually makes the final decision. Well, the person responsible for profit and loss (P/L leader) is the ultimate decision-maker for anything of consequence in his or her domain. This person can be a CEO or a General Manager or a Plant Manager, or a Product-line Manager, or another title. But profit and loss are the keywords. Ask, “Who ultimately takes the hit if things go south?” These P/L leaders are very easy to identify. Just ask anyone or check the internet.

A couple years back when I took over a sales team, I was hired as a sales manager, before I left the corporate world to train sales managers fulltime. I was a sales manager for a few Fortune 500 and Nasdeq 100, and some smaller company’s as wekll. I did that for many years. but one of the organizations that I started with, going back 8 or 9 years now, it was an organization that I really wanted to be a part of because they had an excellent record and a tremendous amount of

Most salespeople have never received a proper education in selling and therefore do not have processes and strategies to use when trying to access and develop relationships with C-Levels and C-Suite executives. In actuality, most learn by trial and error, and errors cause rejections and failures. For example many sales people, will just call directly to C-Levels or C-Suite executives for an appointment. As a result, they get blocked or hear some sort of excuse, such as, too busy, it’s been delegated, not interested or some other random comment.

Right now corporate and government officials are keeping spending and capital investments to minimum. Even if government projects are funded and have nothing to do with budgets, they are still being put on hold. Why, because it’s not right to spend now. It looks badly and ultimately the fear ...Right now corporate and government officials are keeping spending and capital investments to minimum. Even if government projects are funded and have nothing to do with budgets, they are still being put on hold. Why, because it’s not right to spend now.

Here is a true story to go along with Wednesday’s Blog on Eliminating Low Price Bidding. Recently a semi conductor client of mine wanted to move one customer’s (A) production from one facility to another in order to make room for another customer’s (B) production. It was a special fab with ...Here is a true story to go along with Wednesday’s Blog on Eliminating Low Price Bidding.

If you want to get to people, no matter who they are, network to them. You know people. You also know people who know people who can get you through many doors. These are your resources. However, you have to stop and think, and search your mind to realize who and how many people you really know. If you don’t, you’ll say you don’t know anyone. Once you realize all the people you know, then, you’ll have to determine who the right contacts are to connect you with the decision makers you want to meet. Finally you’ve got to know what to say in order to get the right introductions.

During every customer interaction, whether it’s three minutes or an hour, you leave something behind…a person who is either better or worse off than before their contact with you. To build customer loyalty we need to leave each person better. Here are seven things you can do to make sure you have a positive interaction with your customer. 1. Ask them questions.rn2. Wait for the answers. Some people need 20-30 seconds to formulate their response! rn3. Listen to their answe

www.SalesisSimple.com The Stretch [stretch] verb def - an unbroken period of time in which you are going to accomplish something. Remember your favorite "Come from behind, when all the chips are down, able to gain victory anyway" movie? I.e. Rocky, Remember The Titans, Gladiator or The ...

The main reason companies and sales people lose orders is the sales person delivered the wrong message. It isn’t about price, or competition having something you don’t have. S/He hears his or her vision of what’s needed will be fulfilled by someone other than you. Bottom line and never forget it: The message the ultimate decision maker wanted to hear was not your message. Either you gave the wrong message or whoever gave it for you got it wrong or made it wrong. Therefore, if you want more sales and cross-sells, you have to start C-Level Selling 4 Simple Steps for C-level Selling

Creating a targeted prospecting strategy is the biggest prospecting problem facing sales people from the recent 2017 survey by the Richardson Co. The survey was broken into 6 categories; Prospecting, Negotiating, Closing, Buyer’s Decisions, Productivity, and Team Selling and I commend them for their research and efforts. Over the next several articles, I will share with you my suggestion of how you should handle these current and prominent selling issues/ challenges. I also encourage you to read their report and their insights.

It’s easy to differentiate if you use numbers names and details because all of yours differ from all of your competitors’. In the greater scheme of things, your products or services are similar to competitors’. But, in the finite scheme of things every competitor is different – different people, different number of installations, different sizes and shapes, different services, different locations, different customers, etc.

Sales have a beginning and an end, and you can adjust how much time is spent in between by making the right moves. Sales begin wherever you can get in, but always end with the power executives saying yes or no. What happens in between is a lot of due diligence work with subordinates and administrators. Even though these lower level people try to keep you at bay, your focus should always be to eventually get to the high influence executives because this is where your deal comes to a head. Here you’ll find out whether or not there will ever be a sale, and if so, what you’ll have to do to win.

My friend Ted sells marine forklifts. He and his boss recently went to a marina to close a large transaction. Ted looked around the marina and said to the customer “I’m not going to sell you this lift.” Both Ted’s boss and his customer were stunned. He followed up with “You would really grow your business if you had two lifts, one for the front and one for the back.” Ted took a gamble, he embraced risk rather than running from it, and he ended up selling two forklifts that day.

The quality of your customer service is a crucial key to make your company stands out from the crowd. Call centers that focus primarily on resolving customer issues are often placed at the last line of defense of keeping the customers, ensuring a high level of contact center performance and customer satisfaction.

It's uncomfortable selling to C-levels and influential leaders. They are hard to get-to and they are intimidating to talk with. They have an air of superiority and power. The only way to handle these C-levels and top executives is with confidence. Confidence is a sales person’s biggest asset. It enables a sales person to feel s/he belongs with top decision makers. Confidence enables a sales person to ask penetrating questions to everyone s/he meets, and confidence enables a sales person to ask for what s/he wants.

With today’s business scene rife with new competition, it has become more challenging to generate new sales leads for your business. A well-conceived, strategic plan is necessary to push the sales needle forward and help you create a steady flow of prospects coming your way. Below are six of the highly effective lead generation strategies that you can use to bring in new customers and accelerate your growth rate. 1. Become an authority

One of the things that prompted us to talk about this today is that I am just continually amazed at the number of sales managers that have absolutely no clue as to what actually motivates their sales reps. It’s really one of the most popular requests that we get at Sales Management Mastery is what motivate salespeople? In fact, in all the all line polls that we have done of sales manager, CEO’s, sales trainers, this comes up as the number on demand for anyone engaged in o

I was at an association meeting the other night doing some networking. As I talked with people, it was amazing how inefficient people are in their selling and business development. So I have five stories, each with a lesson that could help you develop business better.rn. As I introduced ...I was at an association meeting the other night doing some networking. As I talked with people, it was amazing how inefficient people are in their selling and business development. So I have five stories, each with a lesson that could help you develop business better.rn.

“A Sales manager’s job is to move sales people to do what works.” This is Part III of the key elements – “Move” (I), “Do” (II), and “What Works” (III) A very wise sales guru once told me, “If a sales person is unruly, not conforming to policy, etc., but really selling well, keep him (or her) and deal with it.” Whatever this bad apple is doing is working and you want to keep him going. The point: Don’t mess with what’s working well.

Prospecting rejection hurts. Some targets are gentler with their rejection than others, but the message is the same – “NO”. Once rejected, you'll be annoying if you keep pushing which could burn a future opportunity. Oh, there are those that attest to their tenacity in ...Prospecting rejection hurts. Some targets are gentler with their rejection than others, but the message is the same – “NO”. Once rejected, you'll be annoying if you keep pushing which could burn a future opportunity.