5 Words That Sell

The right words can make a sale. Here are five simple, but powerful words that are music to customers' ears.

How To Stand-out With Your Customers

As soon as you learn how to differentiate yourself, your sales will skyrocket. Learn why it's important to stand-out and avoid blending in.

How to Outsell Your Competition & Beat the Market - Every Time

Most of your competitors are sitting around moaning and whinging about the fact that they can't keep up! Don't be a doofus! Get your act in gear and take your market by storm. Here's 10 tips for outselling your competitors and the market every time!

Getting to the Top of the Selling Profession, Don't Buy into the 'Easy Myth'

Many people in the marketplace today try to sell their products or services by using a tactic that I believe is less than totally honest. While it might be acceptable and ethical to sell an achievable dream that offers great rewards, it is almost never acceptable to sell the concept that getting there will be easy and without effort. I haven't identified any area of life where this is true other than perhaps, failure.

Stop Shaking A Stick At Sales Training

Corporate America has come to rely on Sales Managers, who were in many cases top performers themselves, to develop their team's talent. The problem is these people were promoted because of their excellent sales skills, not their employee development skills. In other cases we rely on HR or T&D to develop these programs when they don't have a sufficient understanding of the dynamics of sales to do so. How do we fix that?

Shortfalls of Seminar Training for Soft Skills

In most instances, seminar training is like drinking from a fire hose. We explore why.

Selling Slumps, How to Pull Out Before You Crash and Burn - Tip 2

It matters very little whether you are a selling rookie or a seasoned professional, sooner or later, you will find yourself mired in a selling slump. There are a number of actions you can take to shorten the duration of the slump, lessen the financial impact and reduce the emotional drain that a slump can cause you. This is 'Tip 2' in a series.

Selling Slumps, How to Pull Out Before You Crash and Burn Tip 4

It matters very little whether you are a selling rookie or a seasoned professional, sooner or later, you will find yourself mired in a selling slump. There are a number of actions you can take to shorten the duration of the slump, lessen the financial impact and reduce the emotional drain that a slump can cause you. This is 'Tip 4' in a series.

Speed Kills - Selling Too Quickly Can Cost The Sale

In a time when more and more people are seeking instant gratification and seem to have less and less time and patience, many salespeople are trying to rush their sale cycle. In my experience and opinion, they do so at their own peril. Speed, the attempt to rush the process can kill the sale. This is why.

Set the Proper Pace of Your Sales Cycle with this Important Tool

The higher the speed at which a salesperson moves through the sales cycle, regardless of the reason, will inversely affect his or her overall performance in terms of closing ratios, customer satisfaction statistics and referral business. Because of this fact, it is vital to establish the slowest effective speed for each individual prospect. It's quite simple really. Here is how to achieve it.

Appointments, How Not to Waste Your Time

Salespeople often have the need to set up appointments, either offsite or in their place of business to engage a prospect in a selling opportunity. Many salespeople waste massive amounts of time through appointments that are not kept. There are two primary reasons for appointments being broken and one simple solution to solve the problem.

Casual vs. Business Dressing for Success

As late as the 1870s surgeons could be seen performing open operations on their patients while dressed in Brooks Brothers suits with full Bemberg lining, corozo buttons, and double besom flap pockets. They would wear a white pinpoint cotton dress shirt with French cuffs, forward point collar, and the tie would be optional. Today’s doctors don a pair of Wal-Mart scrubs in the color of the season and a pair of Nike Air tennis shoes to perform a three-hour operation.

10 Ways to Overcome Sales Objections

According to the experts who conduct sales coaching and sales training courses, most of the sales objections take place when a sales rep has failed to show to the client the usefulness of the product. Overcoming these objections is a very important lesson for a sales rep. It is important to remember that the customer may not always give the actual reason for objecting to the sale.

When To Get The Hell Out Of Dodge Part I

Sales professionals waste time with prospects who are not going to buy. If you have worked in the field of sales and sales marketing you have a story about the prospect who got away after you had forecasted the deal would close. Here are a few ways to spot that prospect and get out of Dodge.

Nothing Sells Like Rapport

You can throw slick technique after slick technique, but if you haven't got authentic rapport you haven't got a hope. And it's a whole lot more than matching and mirroring!