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5 Tips to Improve Your Sales Approach When Recognizing Prospects
How do you recognize a prospect or what I prefer to call a potential customer? These 5 tips may help both improve your sales approach and increase sales.
Take a SWOT at all your key customers
There is a reason some concepts stand the test of time. They work! The notion of analyzing customer strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats is one of those concepts you can't afford to ignore.
The 4 Buckets for Sales Training that Deliver a Positive Return on Investment
Is your sales training not delivering the results you expected or more importantly need? Maybe you are placing too much of your efforts in only two of the four buckets necessary to deliver a positive return on investment
Should you outsource sales management – the key considerations
No matter how great your product or service is, if you don't have people using and buying what you produce, you go out of business. So how do you set up an efficient sales and marketing machine, on a limited budget? Do you have experience in sales management? Would you know how to maximize the potential of a good sales person?

7 + 1 Criteria, business owners should use, when selecting Sales & Marketing Consultant
What makes you different? How do I know I will get value from your services? Why should I use your services, as opposed to someone else? These are questions that I get constantly. I am sure that in your business you get equivalent questions. This article objectively looks at criteria you should use for choosing services like my company's. I would strongly advise you to use this as a template for the products and services that you sell. Do they have a passion to succeed in their own business, which will reflect on what they do for my Business?

It Takes G.R.I.T. to Win More Sales
Remember the movie, True Grit? John Wayne played an over the hill U.S. Marshal who in spite of some character flaws displayed “grit.” Many professional sales people sometimes feel over the hill especially during difficult economic times. What would happen if you had some of that grit of U.S. Marshall Rooster Cogburn?
Open, Leading and Closed Questions
In a selling environment where most good sales people appreciate the importance of discovering a prospect’s requirements, it is easy to take questioning skills for granted. Yet, questions that are crafted with strategic intent can uncover a myriad of secrets stored in the prospect’s mind.

An Ounce Of Silence
It is amazing to watch a true professional finish his presentation and just kick back and watch the prospect talk himself or herself into the sale. The worst that can happen if you button up is that the prospect may start to say something negative and you have plenty of time to counter with positive reinforcement.
The Role Of The Sales Manager
The Sales Manager's role is to develop a highly skilled and productive sales force. In the end, nothing else will matter.

All ya need is Attitude and Ownership to have selling success
This is what separates the successful from all the others
Advertising & Referrals -The Two Big Punches of Marketing
The 5 reasons to advertise and why to use referrals
How to find your next customer
Every sales person, no matter how successful, has this basic problem of whom to sell to each month. Anyone whoever worked in sales knows how one month you can be the best sales person in the company and then the calendar turns to a new month and you are starting from zero again.

Other experienced sales Related Articles

5 Tips For Giving Presentations That Consistently Sell
Tips from an experienced sales expert for qualifying prospects and giving sales presentations that actually work.
Effective Telemarketing
For many sales people, the telephone is an important resource that they use to develop their business. Yet, according to a study by Behavioural Sciences Research Press: ● 40% of established sales people experienced periods of ‘call reluctance’ severe enough to threaten their livelihood in sales. ● the average ‘call reluctant’ sales person loses more than 15 new accounts each month to their competitors.

Getting Sales Recruitment Right
Your small business is growing and diversifying. You've experimented with bringing in an inexperienced sales person (who did not work out). You realise you need a more experienced direct sales person, but you don't know where to go or what to look for.
Common Sales Mistakes Part 1
As markets tighten I thought we could reflect on some lessons learnt in the past by highly experienced, successful sales people. The following lessons are from some of the participants of my ‘Sell like a woman' research project and make for interesting reading in ‘what not to do' in sales. Here is the 1st part of a 3 part series on common sales mistakes.
Common Sales Mistakes Part 2
As markets tighten I thought we could reflect on some lessons learnt in the past by highly experienced, successful sales people. The following lessons are from some of the participants of my ‘Sell like a woman' research project and make for interesting reading in ‘what not to do' in sales. Here is the 2nd part of a 3 part series on common sales mistakes.
Common Sales Mistakes Part 3
As markets tighten I thought we could reflect on some lessons learnt in the past by highly experienced, successful sales people. The following lessons are from some of the participants of my ‘Sell like a woman' research project and make for interesting reading in ‘what not to do' in sales. Here is the 3rd part of a 3 part series on common sales mistakes.
How to become a "Professional" Salesperson
As a business owner constantly recruiting prospective sales partners, I have spoken with and met many experienced salespeople in our industry. I’ve also met many newbies to our industry, who are considering selling for the first time - since they’ve heard it’s a lucrative career with residual income opportunity in an industry that will not be going away (at least we all hope this to be true). With so many experienced and inexperienced salespeople entering new industries, how do you truly learn the industry and become a “professional salesperson?”

Where Leads Come From – Current vs. Best Practices
Currently, expensive and experienced salespeople generate almost 1/2 the sales leads in B2B sellers today. In this article, we contend that marketing is vastly better qualified to generate sales leads than sales is. They can do it for less cost and with greater effectiveness.
Boost Your Sales With Presentation Skills Training
Presentation skills training is critical to sales success. Whether you are new to sales or an experienced pro, great communication unlocks doors. Learn 7 master keys to get faster sales, bigger sales, and build strong relationships with loyal customers.
Can you teach “old sales dogs” new tricks?
Here's how to motivate and get the best out of experienced sales people.
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