Winning Negotiation Tactics
Good negotiators walk out winners, getting the best of the deal. But when you negotiate, make sure your clients feel like winners, too. If not, they may not do business with you again. Follow these four tactics for successful negotiations.
Get On Track
From the very beginning of sales careers, reps learn that if they play the numbers game, eventually they’ll make the sales. It’s true, and the most successful people – no matter what they’re selling – live, sleep, and eat prospecting. But they should also know it’s the quality of the time they spend prospecting that makes […]
Banish These Hackneyed Lines From Your Sales Talk
We’ve all heard them – the sales clichés that turn off customers. You may even be guilty of some yourself. These trite approaches sound persuasive, but they’re so obvious that most prospects feel you’re insulting their intelligence. Pay attention to your conversations, and strike anything that sounds like this: “What’s it gonna take?” You sound like […]
QUICK Steps to Better Sales
Here are some QUICK and easy steps to help you become better at sales. Quiet quiet, quiet. Know when to be quiet. Let your customer do most of the talking. They will tell you how to sell to them. Understand you customer’s needs. In oder to sell to a customer, you have to know what […]
Long Sales Cycles With Complex Processes Can Complicate Determining ROI
The longer the cycle, the more difficult it becomes to separate out all the factors involved. Did the new ad campaign cause a big bump in Denver-area sales over the past year? Or was it the revamped website navigability? Possibly the new items in the product line? Or, was it the addition of two great […]