Posts Tagged ‘sales tips’
Fighting Against the Status Quo
When selling, too many businesses forget that status quo is an option for their clients. Just because a prospect is “shopping around”, looking at new solutions, that is no certainty that they will, in fact, make a purchase. Why a prospect does not buy Adopting a new product, service, contact person… is itself a cost, well…
Read MoreWhat is a Budget Competitor
When making buying decisions, clients assign budgets to their needs. In a B2B environment, a budget is often assigned before the sales process begins. What the budget tells At any moment in time, a budget is finite. A buyer determines how much, out of the available spend, can go towards solving the problems of the…
Read MoreHow to Understand Sales Jargon
Nobody likes a conversation full of buzzwords. Do your clients and colleagues a favor and forego the sales jargon along with the industry jargon. What is Sales Jargon As we are focusing on your customers in this series, let’s look specifically at the sales jargon people use when speaking with prospects. There are so many…
Read MoreHow to Understand Your Jargon
To recap: the first step to problem solving selling – and better conversations with your prospects in general – is to remove industry jargon from your talking points. What is Jargon Some of these terms are easy, but others are less obvious. There are some perfectly common and everyday words that – when used within…
Read MoreProblem Solving Sales
This is where we are now. Selling is about buying, and the solution is about the problem. A solid sales approach is about more than matching the customer to the product. We now look at sales process, implementation, delivery, use and all touch points as part of the problem solving. A Subtle Change What is…
Read MoreEvolution of Sales Conversations
There are as many ways to describe “Sales Eras” as there are sales people. A quick search will reveal sales stages and methods like manipulative versus consultative, push versus pull, barrier selling, relationship selling, transactional selling and much more. In my work I keep a focus on selling as being all about buying, and as…
Read MoreThe Objection Handling Strategy
A successful business is one that solves problems for other people. It achieves this not only with its product, but also with how the product (or service) is purchased, implemented and utilized. In order to continuously solve problems through all of these stages, a successful business understands its client needs. This means encouraging, addressing and…
Read More5 Categories of Objections
Pairing my appreciation for systems with the importance of responding to objections, I do train my clients on how to pro-actively manage this part of their sales conversations. In other words: there’s a strategy for that. And it starts before any sales conversation has occurred. All objections will fall into one of five categories. Understanding these,…
Read MoreAre Objections Harming My Business? Part 2
Yesterday we examined a couple of situations in which a business owner believes he or she is not encountering objections in their business. Today, let’s look at a few more situations, where said business owner is aware of a sales problem, though perhaps not the specific role objections can play. I have dozens of sales…
Read MoreAre Objections Harming My Business? Part 1
Are you using prospect objections as a force for good, or for evil? A prospect is not likely to begin a sentence with “Allow me to raise this objection…”, but that is still what they are doing. No business has every client agreeing with its proposals every single time. Following are just some of the…
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