The 3 Steps To Overcoming Intimidation in Medical Sales

It's easy to get intimidated when you are selling to highly-trained and highly-educated experts - and intimidation can hold you back from your full potential. This article will provide you with three simple steps to overcoming intimidation for good.

Make More Sales with Relationship-Building Listening Skills

When I started in sales, I was focused on one goal, closing the deal. On my quest to make a sales call that would put me over the top of my annual budget, I made a huge mistake and learned a valuable lesson from my client. I came to the appointment with the goal of asking for the order. I left with nothing, followed by an angry phone call to my sales manager asking for a new salesperson. You see, I did not show a genuine interest in the relationship or my customers business. This selfish plan backfired, big time.

5 Easy Steps to Closing the Sale: Step I

This easy 5 step process was developed for those who have few sales skills, but need to learn the basics of the sales process. Marketing brings prospects to your door, but it's sales skills that makes them paying customers.

5 Easy Steps to Closing the Sale: Step III

This is the 3rd article in the 5 Steps to Closing a Prospect Series. This step shows how to provide solutions to problems. You'll learn how to effectively quantify savings with a prospect.

Using Improvisational Comedy as a Business Training Tool

One of the major issues in today's corporate work environment is the “lack of trust and team work”. Businesses have to be ever so focused on the “Bottom Line” because of the competitive pressures facing them from the global community, corporate downsizing and restructuring and downward price pressures on products and services. As a result of these new business drivers we have lost our sense of trust in our Employers and our fellow Employees. This is where Improvisational Comedy can help. I needed a break from the “Corporate Rat Race”, so I enrolled at The Players Workshop of The Second City to learn Improvisational Comedy.

Looking for a Fast Nickel or a Slow Quarter?

How do you approach your career in sales? As a professional career or just something to do until something better comes along?

Tracking Leads is Just as Important as Getting Leads

Developing a truly effective marketing plan that generates results is no easy task. The benefits of having a management system far outweigh the disadvantages. It results in better decisions that are closer to what your clients need.

Sales Success Tip - You are Your Best Investment

Would you go to or recommend a doctor who stopped studying and training after medical school and didn't keep up with the latest advances in medicine? Why would a doctor do that? Most wouldn't, so why would you?

Cold Calling For Sales Leads - 5 Things to Increase Your Chances

This article lists the 5 things you can do to increase your cold calling sales success.

Motivating Sales People, Tips Taken from Top Sales Organizations

Motivating sales people can be a challange for any company. Keeping yourself and your sales team motivated is key in increasing the sales of your company. Even if you are doing all of the selling yourself, you need to understand how to keep motivated and keep selling at a very high level.

Why Your Sales Representative Skills are Key to Increasing Your Business

The skills of your sales representative (or your selling skills if you own a small business) are key in determining the success of your business. Most people think that success in sales is using techniques and secret buzzwords. I will show you that success in selling is more about basic foundational skills.

Same Stuff - Different Day?

When you look at the sales process, there are six major pieces: attitude management, prospecting, presentation skills, disarming sales resistance and closing and servicing the customer for repeat and referral business. Let’s look at one (and there are many) creative approach in each of the five areas.

How's Your Overall Productivity?

You can’t motivate anyone. People motivate themselves. The job of a manager is to create a motivational environment where people would want to motivate themselves.

The Sales Qualification Process – Making It Work For You

If you’ve been alive during the last 10 years then the chances are that you’ve been ‘pitched’ by a sales person numerous times. You probably knew what was going on and that you were being ‘sold’ to. Some were probably better than others but I’m betting that most were a ‘canned sales pitch’ that did little to qualify you for the product or service being offered. It still amazes me, in the sales enlightened world we live in, to be on the receiving end of such a pitch. Are you guilty of force feeding your pitch to those unlucky enough to cross your path or have you realised there is a qualification process to be followed?

A Better Way To Train - In More Ways Than One

In the ever-changing busy world of business, companies find that in keeping up with the times, first and foremost, they’ve got to keep their employees up to speed by training them in an effective, expeditious manner.