“You can’t sell to everyone, and because you must sell to someone, you don’t want to pick anyone. Prospecting — and following through to getting the appointent—remains the most important step in the sales cycle. All others cannot manifest if there’s no one to work them on.” So, forget closing the sale; just get the
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Aligning (instead of conflicting) your objectives to that of the buyer, will more likely progress the sale to fruition, faster. What’s the objective of a client meeting? The average seller will dismissively say, “Duh! To make a sale, of course.” The same question to the buyer will yield this sombre response: “To get information”. Conflicting
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It’s official! Even with the drastic changes in the sales landscape over the past decade, success in selling still depends on what it used to and has always done: adequate preparation. This verdict derives from professors of strategic sales from leading business and management universities globally, backed by practical, primary research from observing over 800
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The importance of a database in Sales cannot be gainsaid. A database is the lifeblood of sales and the successful salesperson. The progressive salesperson never abandons her contacts. Even when she changes industries, she moves with them. The average salesperson, has them for the while she needs them. As for the below average one, she
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You can list many activities on your daily to-do list, but I submit that they really boil down to just three activities to thrive in sales: monitor-facing, customer-facing or “air”-facing “What’s in your cup?” a common advert inquires. “What’s in your day?” I usually pose to participants in my workshop. “What activities would I see
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