High-Income Seller Behaviors: 5 Attitudes A Sales Executive Must Have To Close The Deal

Effective selling at times is achieved by those even with a “bad attitude.” That's when one is more discerning and skeptical about whether a prospect has money or is willing to make the change. Such a high achiever is always focused on the problems that he or she can solve and not focused on the budgets that aren’t there.

Overcoming Presentation Jitters

I remember my very first speaking engagement. I was excited but also a little nervous. I was faced with some of the common fears everyone experiences. Even though we may know that many of our fears are most likely not ever going to actually happen, they still have a way of trying to take center stage right before we get on stage.

Bike Shop Sales Training

Recently, I over heard a lady asking questions about a certain bike. The guy was very knowledgeable but he did not listen. Later that week I went to another bike shop in town and saw the lady picking up a new bike, which she had bought the day before and she bought all the extras including a GPS, she spent about $2,200 and that is money the first bike shop lost.

Become a CeMAP Qualified Broker

Would you like to become a CeMAP qualified broker? If you are looking to start a career in Financial Services as a mortgage advisor but are finding it hard to get your foot in the door, why not let a team of industry-experienced CeMAP training professionals lead the way.

Home Runs Are Great But You Need A Few Singles To Succeed in Selling

Most salespeople, from time to time no matter what you sell, have the opportunity or potential for a big one. It is my experience, however if you only closed these big sales from time to time and nothing else in between that you would most likely starve.

Communication Channels that Open Prospects' Doors

If you are a salesperson and you're having difficulty getting your prospects' favorable attention, here are some prospecting tips that will open more doors.

Why Not Stop By And Say Hi - Just To Keep You In The Minds Of Your Clients And Prospects

If you treat your business resources with the respect and caring that you would like, you’ll find out how loyalty will build and how hard it will be for either of you to let go of your business relationship.

Three Steps to Using the Law of Dissonance

Just like anything in life, there is an art an a science. In this article I outline the step by step science to using dissonance effectively. Take the material I teach you and use your art to apply the most effective method in a given situation.

Training and Motivating Sales Staff

So often we hear about companies training their sales staff and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to make sure that they are trained correctly and properly. Then we see that the average salesperson stays at the company less than six months and the training that has been an expensed to teach them goes out the window.

Training Sales Teams to Bid Service Contracts

In training sales staff that goes out into the field to bid on service contracts you need to make sure that they are not giving away the store. It is easy for someone to go out and bid the service contracts lower than the competition and get all the work. Unfortunately this can leave your company in financial ruin or thrust your company into bankruptcy.

Pre Assessment Prior to Sales Training

The fastest way to de-motivate your very best sales people is to sit them in a room and go over inane things that they already know and could probably teach better in your industry sub-sector than the outside sales trainer that you brought in.

There's An Amazing, New 3,251 Step Sales Training Process!

One of my clients is a sales training junky. He loves any new close, answer to an objection, or selling shortcut you can give him. He's also an avid collector of tapes, books, newsletters, and you name it.

Exhibit Staff Training - 5 Tips for Managers

There’s no job description that says “Stand in the booth and hand out brochures”, so it’s important that for each showeach staff member receives training. Just because you can sell well doesn’t mean you can sell well in this unique marketing environment. How? Get everybody in a room and lecture to them. Wrong! Whether using a professional trainer or doing it yourself, here are FIVE TIPS to develop better booth staff:

Are You Training Your Sales Teams to Fail?

There are indeed hundreds of articles on sales training and how to sell. Every company needs good sales training for their sales staff no matter what kind of products or services they offer. Unfortunately, many companies do not have adequate sales training and if you fail to train your salespeople you are also training them to fail.