“Getting in early with the customer means being proactive, not reactive; generous, not selfish; relational, not transactional. It also propels your career and usefulness – even if you are not in selling – and gives you an unfair selling advantage.” I’m told that by 4.30 a.m. you will find owners of business on the road
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“When I first heard about the cloud, I thought the information was held somewhere in the skies.” I was told this by the CEO of a thriving IT solutions firm. If you know what ‘the ‘cloud’, in computer terminology, means, you must be laughing. Don’t! That’s how you lose sales. By assuming buyers know, and
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“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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It is the consummate seller who is able to resist the urge to volunteer (unnecessary) details of what the product can do, and stick to selling to different segments in an organization. A business to business sale many times requires the presentation to be done across different cadre before it is consummated. Few sellers do
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To thrive, sellers must take debt collection in stride. Or would they rather Finance does? If the ultimate objective of sales is to generate income, then debt collection is in itself a salesman. A reader friend of mine told me of an interesting experience he had a few years back. When he joined this firm
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Today’s article is the 101st and marks this column’s 2nd anniversary. As with any milestone, reflection is advisable. Only editorial space limits the depth to which we can reflect and so we’ll look at twelve ways in which we can connect with the buyer. After all connection is the underlying theme of Sales Pitch. 1.
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Shrewd salespeople don’t play by the rules. While the bank insists that all documentation must be in order before an account is opened, the salesperson gets all the documentation and has account opened but not necessarily in that order. The order is dependent on the situation at hand. Like a soldier, he adapts Successful salespeople
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Awareness & Education: "The Problem", Sales Strategy & Process
What happened to the calendar and diary? Was it caught in a time warp? Like me, you have possibly witnessed a steady decline of the two with every passing January. To a point this year, when I’m almost at zero sightings. There was a time when the two were all the rage. The transition to
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Awareness & Education: "The Problem", Sales Mindset & Skills
Benefits sell features tell. A guide to emotional selling. Why do you dress?” I usually ask participants during my workshops. Almost always, there’s an awkward silence, with participants wondering the absurdity of the question; and then the answer follows to rub home the queerness of my question. “To cover our nakedness, of course!” “Really?” I
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“Hips Don’t Lie” so says Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira; and in sales numbers don’t lie, either. Indeed, ‘sales is a game of numbers’ isn’t a cliché-it’s a fact. In fact, I remember a senior human resource manager, while preparing appraisals for the different departments in her organization, wished that she could make all of them as
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Awareness & Education: "The Problem", Sales Strategy & Process