What are the reasons buyers buy? There are hundreds of reasons prospects will end up buying from you, but the same handful of reasons tend to come up repeatedly. Key Buying Criteria A prospective customer’s key buying criteria can be condensed into five topics. A decision to buy a good or service can be made… Continue reading The 5 Key Customer Buying Criteria Used to Make A Decision
Value based selling is a sales approach that reinforces to customers the reasons why your offer is valuable to them. Using this sales approach you focus on the needs of customers first, before the desires of the sales professional. A requirement for all sales reps in the sales process is to assist the customer in… Continue reading A Guide to Value Based Selling
If you want to “wow” your prospects and with memorable, engaging sales presentations, you need to have a framework from which you can build up to your pitch. In this article, we’ll share a three-part structure that will help you impress prospects and increase sales over your competitors. We’ll also discuss fundamental sales presentation techniques… Continue reading How to Create An Effective Sales Presentation
To understand the sales process, it is necessary to discuss the length of a sales cycle. Some sales cycles last only days after initial contact. Some last minutes. The average sales cycle, however, is measured in weeks and months. The gating factors in determining the time in which a sales cycle is completed are investment,… Continue reading Why Your Sales Cycle Time Is Too Long
As sales reps you are always on the lookout for how to make that perfect sales call. Here we present some tools that will help you take a giant leap towards perfection. The Goals of the Sales Call Initiating the connection with a prospective customer can be broken down into three goals. Goal 1: Introduce… Continue reading How to Begin and End Every Sales Call
These days, bulk email campaigns are becoming less effective due to an overload of spam and the corresponding abundance of increasingly efficient spam filters. Therefore, it is important for sales professionals to be selective when sending sales emails. Email prospecting should only be used when it’s appropriate to the situation, like when a sales rep… Continue reading 5 Must-Know Rules for High Converting Prospecting Emails
Lead qualification, sometimes known as sales lead qualification, is not a phase, but a process. And it’s a process that can mean the difference between closing fast and efficiently versus wasting time on false starts. Are you and your sales and marketing teams following best practices in qualifying leads—or are you playing a guessing game?… Continue reading Lead Qualification Best Practices
The 30 second speech, also known as an “elevator speech” or “elevator pitch,” is a way to explain your value proposition to potential clients or customers by highlighting only the key points you want them to know. Once you understand how to do it effectively, a 30 second speech will become second nature and your… Continue reading The 30 Second Speech for Increased Sales
Across the varied and unique sales strategies that exist to encourage interested consumers to purchase a product or service, feature benefit selling is perhaps the best approach for business owners who wish to frame their product in a way that customers will both understand and respond to. This article will explain the difference between features… Continue reading Feature Benefit Selling for Sales Professionals
Selling to a company’s executives involves more intricate techniques than selling to mid-level employees, as executives want higher-level benefits than the general consumer. This article will cover the two categories of buyers as well as a fundamental sales strategy for C-level selling: the Cause/Effect tool. Two Types of Buyers Before we look at tools and… Continue reading Selling to Executives: Strategies That Drive Results