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Achieve your Sales Targets with your Sales Pipeline
Being aware of and managing the amount in your sales pipeline each week, fortnight or month can have the single biggest impact to achieving your sales consistently from month to month and quarter to quarter. It is an important forecasting tool that all businesses should use even if they don’t have salespeople, as it clearly shows how many sales to expect and when to expect them.
Boost your Sales through Reinvention
Is it just me or is 2009 going to be the biggest and best year yet? Despite what is being reporting in the media and what we are seeing overseas, many of the people that I’ve spoken to recently are extremely motivated and confident that 2009 is going to be their best year yet (including me). So if 2009 is going to be your best year yet, now is the perfect time to sit down and work out what you want to achieve and what you need to do to make this happen.

Build your Sales Pipeline and Boost Your Prospect Numbers
Do you get frustrated constantly searching for prospects and contact information? The traditional methods of building a list of people that you can market and sell to such as purchasing databases, driving around business parks and noting the tenants of buildings that you walk past are great, and they do work, however, they are costly and time consuming.
Business Networking Tips
Networking has been good to me over the years. Apart from referrals, it has been the single most successful way of generating new business and building my professional network. It must be the salesperson in me, but there is nothing more rewarding than meeting and connecting with new people who end up as friends, associates or clients.

Consultative Needs Based Selling Approach
Looking at your business from a sales perspective and most importantly understanding your business from a client perspective, is one of the most important first steps in sales. Most people hate being sold to but love the feeling of buying; so the clearer you can explain how your business helps and "what is in it for them" the easier it makes prospective customers to make a buying decision. The consultative/problem solver approach qualifies and listens to the customer and helps them to buy what they need. The consultative approach focuses on the needs of the customer and how you improve or benefit them in some way.
How can I increase the number of Referrals I receive?
I’m sure most of you would agree that selling to someone who has been referred to you is much easier and more enjoyable than those generated through traditional sales efforts such as direct mail and cold calling. The success rate is higher because they are in the market for your services and are also much less price sensitive because the referring party has told them the value and benefits that you can deliver.
How can I make cold calling easier?
Lately I have been working with a number of sales teams to help them increase the success of their cold calling and I thought I would share with you some of my tips for success:
How can you find the best of the best in sales?
Many people believe great sales-people are born, not made but I disagree because sales is a process that can be taught to anyone and it is simply how the process is applied that separates good from great. Success in sales comes from skill development, attitude, confidence and behaviour.

How to avoid being a pest in your sales follow up
Did you know that one of the biggest gripes against salespeople by decision makers is the lack of follow up? Many people resist following up because they find it uncomfortable and don’t want to seem pushy or annoying and many people don’t follow up because they simply forget. This lack of follow-up presents a great opportunity for those who are organized and take the time to do it.
Overcoming Sales Objections
Objections are simply reasons or concerns that a prospective client has as to why they won't make a decision when you want them to. You will hear statements such as:

Quick Prospecting Tools
Do you get frustrated constantly sourcing new sales and contact information?
Sales Tips to give your sales a boost in 2010
customers, the same results can be achieved. Besides, you can find new customers from referrals within your existing client base. Here is a couple of quick tips to help you build your revenue in 2010.
Quick Tips to Presenting Proposals
These quick tips will help to reduce some of the 'discomfort' that can be associated when presenting your pricing options
SALES TIPS AND TRICKS
Want to increase sales but don’t have the sales skills or worried you will come across as an aggressive, pushy sales person? The key to developing confidence in sales is by being flexible and open-minded about trying something new!
Sales Tips for Selling in a challenging economy
It’s difficult to ignore the news of the financial crisis that is occurring around the world and the fear and uncertainty that it is creating. Here in Australia many companies have been tightening their budgets and reducing their spending over recent months and it looks like it’s going to continue. So what does this mean for those of us running businesses or working in sales?
Sales Tips for the First Appointment
“It’s all about planning and preparation” It’s amazing how many sales people and business owners I talk to who under-estimate the value and importance of planning and preparing for a first appointment.

4 Key Coaching Questions to Help Staff Step Up and Seize Opportunities
Many managers are so busy that they find themselves just giving answers and solving the problems that their staff bring to them. But what if you could stop yourself and instead of giving them the obvious solution that they should know anyway, ask them one of the 4 most powerful open questions to help them solve the problem for themselves? It will take just 1 minute and your self control. Want to try? Here are the top 4 most powerful questions to get your staff thinking.
5 Most Important Coaching Skills
Many Managers begin to coach their staff thinking that they have all the skills they need. Here's a quick overview of the top 5 skills any manager needs to brush up on before coaching their staff.
Coaching the Older Team Member
For a new manager, managing a technically experienced older team member who's been there for a while and who doesn't necessarily respect a new manager who's come on the scene can be very challenging. It takes a while to build up and earn respect. Here are some things you can do to start winning them over.

Are you boring prospects with your questions?
When you ask ‘thinking, open style' questions it can help you to win new business much quicker and with fewer objections. Additionally, when you help prospects to think about the needs of their business and to really think about current or potential problems or challenges they may face, they start to see you differently and understand the value you can add to them or their business.
Success Steps You Can Use To Make Interviews Easy!
Here are a few ideas to set your mind at rest and help you on your way with interviews. They are an inherent part of almost any selection process you care to mention - and they can be challenging; scary even. Until now!
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Lucrative Joint Venture Questions
When you ask the right Joint Venture questions, you open the vault to riches. Here’s a few major ones for you.
Questions to ask before Writing a Proposal
A lot of time gets wasted on proposal-writing. Before we invest this effort, there are some basic questions worth asking. Not only do these questions filter out time-wasters, they actually enhance our chances of winning the bid.For example, most professionals are aware of the risk when our entire relationship with the client organisation hinges on one person. But do we consistently translate this into a strategy to build relationships with other key decision-influencers? A question such as “Who else has a key stake in the success of this?” can open some significant doors for the future.Learning to ask the right questions not only saves wasted time and effort, it enhances our credibility as potential suppliers. And it dramatically cuts down that awful task of chasing a proposal on which we have heard nothing since we sent it in.

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4 Key Coaching Questions to Help Staff Step Up and Seize Opportunities
Many managers are so busy that they find themselves just giving answers and solving the problems that their staff bring to them. But what if you could stop yourself and instead of giving them the obvious solution that they should know anyway, ask them one of the 4 most powerful open questions to help them solve the problem for themselves? It will take just 1 minute and your self control. Want to try? Here are the top 4 most powerful questions to get your staff thinking.
Be Open to New Ideas
It is easy to say "be open to new ideas" and most of us believe we have an open mind. Nothing could be further from the truth. We are all stuck with an enormous array of paradigms that limit our ability to see the possibiliies. To be really open minded is a skill that takes a lot of effort to develop. This article may help you see things from a different perspective.

10 Questions Great Connectors Ask at Networking Events
Getting people to open up to you is a great first step, but then, to make a stronger connection you need to keep them talking. So what are the right questions to ask to get others to open up? Here are 10 questions great connectors ask at networking events.
10 Best Opening Lines to Make a Connection
I’ve asked many successful connectors – What do you say to open conversations with others? Are there magic words you use that make strangers open up and actually want to talk with you? What do you say to allow people to connect with you? The key is to help them connect with you, and in turn, you with them. You want to listen, not necessarily talk. To do that, you can control the conversation for as long as you want by asking good questions, paying attention by listening, and really separating yourself from others.
Information Versus Interrogation: The Three ‘I’s of Open-ended Questions
Every effective sales training course teaches sales professionals to ask their prospects open-ended questions. These are the questions that start with who, what, why, when and how. But when used incorrectly, they can make a needs analysis seem more like an interrogation. Demonstrate professionalism by using the 3 ‘I’s with open-ended questions.
Information Versus Interrogation: The Three ‘I’s of Open-ended Questions
Every effective sales training course teaches sales professionals to ask their prospects open-ended questions. These are the questions that start with who, what, why, when and how. But when used incorrectly, they can make a needs analysis seem more like an interrogation. Demonstrate professionalism by using the 3 ‘I’s with open-ended questions.
Selling to C-Levels - 8 Interviewing Tips to Easily Close Sales
Interviewing questions open up C-levels and other prospects to reveal the triggers that will cause them to buy from that interviewer. Interrogative questions turn-off people like a light switch. So to win-over prospects and C-levels, follow these 8 suggestions.

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