Posts Tagged ‘Sales Strategies’
Neutral is Not a Strategy
Too often, I meet sales people who are uncomfortable with challenging their customers. Whether it’s out of politeness (the customer is always right), or not wanting to “rock the boat” with the customer, they are non-committal.
Read More Why You Should Consider a White Labeling Solution
As an entrepreneur with a business problem, your first instinct may be to try do-it-yourself solutions. After all, that’s what entrepreneurship is all about, right?
Read More Technology for Sales Teams in 2015
Whether you own a business or are looking to start one, nobody has to tell you how much your sales team matters. In order to grow and expand, you need your company to have high orders—and that’s what your sales team specializes in.
Read More Fill Out Your Holiday Sales Report Card
In the spirit of “there’s nothing new under the sun” and don’t try to “reinvent the wheel,” let’s look at what merchants, on average, did to boost sales over the holiday buying season. Consider this a report card against which you can judge your efforts this year and then use it to plan for other major shopping seasons.
Read More 7 Ways to Improve Your Small Business in 2015
A new year is on the horizon, and that means new opportunities and the chance at a fresh start. For all of the motivated small business owners out there, 2015 is a perfect time to evaluate your enterprise from head to toe and make improvements as necessary.
Read More Sales People Are Not Automatons!
Every customer is different, every individual involved in a buying decision is different. Our ability to engage each person in ways appropriate to them is critical.
Read More Is Your Company Sustaining Sales?
Is your sales team performing lackluster in spite of efforts to improve sales and service techniques? Do they keep slipping back into old ways instead of embracing the changes you’ve been training them to accept?
Read More Are You Answering the Right Question?
Are you asking the right questions? Are you probing, reframing, even challenging to make sure you understand what they really are saying—even going beyond the words they use?
Read More Teaching Our Customers to Sell
“Selling,” internally, is critical to people getting things done and moving their initiatives, strategies, programs forward. Within organizations, there’s always selling going between people and groups, but people don’t tend to think of it that way.
Read More 10 Key Steps to Build Rapport on the Phone
At a recent sales conference I took notes as the keynote speaker argued that our words account for only 7 percent of our communication effectiveness. Tonality accounts for 38 per cent and body language 55 per cent.
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