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The Art of Closing the Sales Call!
There is not a winning technique, not a single magic bullet, nor any secret sales closing course you should take to increase your rate of closed sales calls. If you want to consistently close sales calls, consistently move business, and consitently increasing the number of prospects that turn into customers, then you need to simply work to engage the prospect, listen to what they need, provide value and yes ask for the business.

Master The Art Of Listening
Listening is one of the most valuable skills in effective sales calling. If you listen, if you ask could questions and truly hear your prospects response, they will tell you when, how and why they would buy your product or service. Master the art of listening and you'll turn more prospects into clients!
First Things First - Solve The Right Problem
Most people miss the greatest part of sales - the ability to go out and truly learn about people, their businesses, their challenges and their opportunities and provide ideas, products and services that will make their lives better! How great is that. This is often lost of most sales people, because they are too focused on making the sale rather than solving the problem.

Selling Mojo Improves Results
Selling mojo improves results especially when the economy is soft and your customers are demanding. Discover 3 ways to add selling mojo to your sales effort every day.

Making Better Sales Calls For Your Business
Everybody gets telemarketer calls, and often they hurt business more often than they help it. Whether you are a non-profit organization or a company trying to make some sales, there are a few things that can help make those experiences better.

Improving Sale Effectiveness
Improving Sale Effectiveness • How many of you out there are great at sales? • How many of you find it very easy to call people and make appointments with prospective clients? • Have you ever found it difficult to ask for what you want to be paid? • What are the stories that go on in your head that get in the way of you being better at sales?
Your pre-call & post-call checklist
How well did your last sales call go? Did you achieve what you set out to achieve? Do you know what your next course of action will be with that customer/prospect? Do you have evidence that a real sales opportunity exists? Using a pre-call and post-call checklist is a very useful process when assessing the effectiveness of your sales calls.
Buyers Change their Ways - Sales People Must Keep Up
The trouble with change is that it sneaks up on you. It would be easier to deal with if it happened in a predictable manner, like a bus or train arriving at its final destination. After a major change, we don’t need historians to tell us that it was inevitable and that the writing was on the wall for all to see. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. For those in the midst of change, ‘after’ is difficult to define. Long after, we can put dates on things but while they are happening, there is always the hope that the situation is just an anomaly.

Motivating your Sales Team - Making more sales with fewer calls
As a manager or sales professional interested in boosting revenues, you've no doubt heard the expression, 'selling is a numbers game'. The idea is that the more potential customers you contact, the more likely you are to make sales. Makes sense in theory but in the real world this belief often reduces revenues. Here's why...

How to Determine if Your Sales Process is Effective
Attempting to reverse engineer your last sales cycle is a good way to uncover some of your sales weaknesses.

Death Defying Sales Calls- Don't Get Run off the Road
When you're making sales calls trust in your own ability to handle the situation but don't have too much faith that everyone involved is on your side. A healthy dose of skepticism goes a long way.

Dealing With Objections
"I'm Not Interested" is something that anyone who does business development, sales, cold calling, appointment setting, making new friends or smiling and dialing has to be able to deal with. You will learn a new way to agree with your customer's concerns and move on with the sales process.

Productivity Over Activity
Like most people who work for a living, I begin my day at the office by reviewing my calendar and making a list of tasks that need to be done on that particular day. Some of these activities have a time associated with them such as a meeting, conference call, or speech I will be making at a certain point in the day. Other activities such as correspondence, accounting, and returning phone calls need to be done that day in general terms but not at any specific point in time.

A Challenge To Women Who Would Never Dream Of Presenting
Academic and business presentations can be scary. Job interviews, investor pitches, sales calls all involve presenting. Presenting on video, in person, at a conference or as part of a panel discussion can be nerve wracking.

Sales and Wasting Time
The way that sales people utilize their time is critical to their success. Many sales people are simply ineffective time managers. Every minute of every day is essential to a sales person. Sales managers need to stress the importance of time and help their sales people understand how wasted time translates into lost sales.

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TRADITIONAL SALES TRAINING LEADS TO DECLINE IN SALES
Industrial psychologist and sales researcher Neil Rackham reports in a study of over 1000 sales calls that sales results deteriorated after traditional sales training programs were implemented.

You Must Work a Prospecting System
If you’ve been in sales for more than six months, and you’re still making cold calls, you’re on the wrong track. You're not going to reach the top. Traditional trainers might be proud of you for making these cold calls, but the top sales performers would tell you you're wasting your time. There’s a better way to get to the top.

Is Your Sales Model Effective? Know Your Salesforce ABC's
What happens when you compare a model like Deborah's - if you're gonna go hunting you'd better come back with dinner - with a model that has its salespeople making 3 sales calls per day, or around 60 per month? Do you think those salespeople come back with 60 new customers or orders per month? No chance! They probably sell 10. That's why they're on so many calls. What would happen if you told those salespeople that you only wanted them to go on 30 calls per month, but you want them to be a lot more selective, and you expected them to close 50% instead of 10%?
Cold Calling Should Not Create the Sales Catastrophe of Becoming a Commodity
Do you need more sales as service professional whether you are a business consultant, sales coach, financial advisor, insurance agent or realtor? Are you making those necessary cold calls? Did you ever think that you are potentially creating a sales catastrophe of becoming a commodity?
Maybe I really DO want to appear to be an order-taker...
Technology has changed everything. It used to take multiple face-to-face sales calls to get a prospect up to speed on the potential value of our products and services. More importantly, those calls enabled us to acquire a broad, deep understanding of their issues, requirements and problems. Now, web 2.0 makes our info available 24/7. They don't need us to learn about us. AND, they now refuse to take the time to educate us regarding what they need.
The Art of Closing the Sales Call!
There is not a winning technique, not a single magic bullet, nor any secret sales closing course you should take to increase your rate of closed sales calls. If you want to consistently close sales calls, consistently move business, and consitently increasing the number of prospects that turn into customers, then you need to simply work to engage the prospect, listen to what they need, provide value and yes ask for the business.

Xobni as Sales Assistant - Pivots Help Close Sales
In sales, pivots can occur with your market, accounts, strategies and sales calls. The key is to recognize an event that calls for a pivot. For example,
Multi-tasking: Crazy Busy, or Just Crazy?
I often observe sales and service professionals who are so busy and who believe that multi-tasking during phone calls, conferences, while driving, etc. makes them more productive. My friend Kelly calls this “wearing your Busy Badge.” Does this sound like you? I know it can be me. That is why it was interesting to research information on the productivity of us busy people.
Conquering the Counter Conundrum
Counter sales personnel face many of the same issues that inside sales and customer service (IS/CS) people face. In fact, the counter sales life becomes one of juggling several balls in the air at the same time and becoming skilled at multi-tasking. Dealing with "will- calls," customers at the counter, inbound phone calls, picking and packing at times and demanding sales representatives create quite a challenge for the professional counter person. More importantly, this counter conundrum puts customer retention and value at risk.

Innovation and the Law of Averages
Early in my sales career I was introduced to the Law of Averages. It's been a key concept of direct sales for many decades. The Law of Averages basically teaches salespeople that if you want to double or triple your sales, you need to double or triple the cold calls and sales presentations you make. I found that if I made ten cold calls to interest people in home water treatment equipment, I generally got one appointment for a sales presentation. Three appointments usually gave me one sale.
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