Wed.Mar 28, 2012

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15 Questions Your Prospect Wants Answered

The Sales Heretic

When it comes to making a buying decision, prospects have a lot on their minds. Whether they’re consumers or business buyers, they have a lot of fears, concerns and doubts. And as long as those uncertainties remain unresolved, they’re going to be hesitant to buy. The challenge is, prospects don’t always voice their fears and doubts. [.].

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Can You Change The Price Only Prospect Into A Good Loyal Client?

MTD Sales Training

In a recent post, “4 Powerful Reasons To Walk Away From The Price ONLY Prospect,” I detailed how and why you need to walk away from that POP (Price Only Prospect). That is the prospect who cares nothing about service, value, or even reputation and is only concerned with, “How much?” Even if you give [.

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The Process of Change

The Pipeline

On Monday, I posted a piece about how one company is gaining advantage over another through change. But change for people, yes buyers are people, is a very personal and internal process. This video looks at how to leverage that fact to achieve ongoing improvement and evolution of your selling. [link]. Next Step. Inventory your sales skills. Look at which could deliver specific change in your sales approach.

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Hiring Sales People? How Important is Experience?

Anthony Cole Training

Here is a segment from a recent article in on - line Forbes written by Ron Ashkenas of Schaffer Consulting. Surprisingly, one of the reasons that Dowling cites for NS-LIJ’s success is the fact that traditional “experience” is not a pre-condition for hiring new managers. In fact, in many cases it’s a liability. Dowling explains: “We’re in an industry that needs to change and re-examine almost every facet of how we do business.

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How Intent Data Helps Marketers Convert A-List Accounts

One of the biggest challenges for any B2B marketer is understanding your prospects’ next move — who is most likely to buy and when. Without these insights, marketing campaigns can feel more like guesswork, with high investment and little return. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way. By tracking buyers’ digital footprints and online activity, such as website visits, product reviews, and spikes in content consumption, you can engage prospects with a message that really resonates.

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Building the B2B Customer Reference Community – Event

Score More Sales

In my years in selling in the corporate world, I tended to run into a consistent issue – big clients would rarely, if ever, allow me (or the company I worked for) to be quoted publicly that they were our client. One time, I nearly lost a multi-million dollar contract with a very big airplane manufacturer because some low-level person in our company DID get quoted in a newspaper about the business relationship.

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Raise More Questions than Answers by Andy Ferguson

Increase Sales

Lately, I’ve been helping quite a few people set up businesses, raise funding and get ideas off the ground. One question that I continued to find myself asking was “what is this business for?” That got me thinking “what IS business FOR ?” And of course, the answer to that will depend on your view point when you interact with a particular business.

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How To Fire A Salesperson Without Creating A Stink

A Sales Guy

There is nothing more critical than being able to hire and fire as a sales leader. Building teams is all about hiring, coaching and unfortunately, sometimes firing. Firing is the most uncomfortable of the 3. Firing is hard. I’ve seen people get fired in more ways than you could imagine and it’s usually not pretty. It’s done so poorly, the manager is dreading it, the sales person is blindsided, and it leaves a stink on the entire team for days and sometimes weeks.

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CloudOn Delivers Microsoft Office Apps To Your iPad

Fill the Funnel

CloudOn delivers Microsoft Office applications to your iPad. Finally, for those of you who have lived in a Microsoft Office centric world, you now have access to the core Office Suite on your iPad. You no longer have to hesitate when running out the door to your next appointment, or waste time switching devices. With your iPad and CloudOn you can review Word documents, manipulate pivot tables in Excel, and show off your latest work in PowerPoint.

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Successful sales people – personality attributes

Sales Training Connection

Successful sales people. Some time ago we published a blog, Who are the new sales reps? “ Recently we received a blog post that adds to that story – posted by the Business Insurance Quotes blog. It addresses the Eight Personality Traits of Successful Business People – the ideas apply equally well to sales people. You might want to take a look … Technorati Tags: sales best practices , Sales people attributes.

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2 Retail Sectors That Are Completely Changing the Game: FMCG & Q-Commerce

Speaker: Joe Heather, Deliverect GM (UK&I) & Noah Hayes, Deliverect GM (US&CA)

Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Quick Commerce (Q-commerce) are two vibrant sectors that have undergone significant transformations with the advancements in digital technology. With growing internet penetration and the proliferation of smartphones, consumers' purchasing habits have unsurprisingly evolved. They now demand quick, convenient, and seamless shopping experiences, which both FMCG and Q-commerce sectors strive to provide.

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Guest Post: Opportunity Lost: What Don’t Your Testimonials Say About You?

Engage Selling

The following post came for Doreen Ashton-Wagner at Greenfield Services and was posted on her Meeting and Event Lead Blog. Greenfield Services is the premier demand generation consultancy in North America dedicated to two main markets: hospitality & meeting industry suppliers such as hotels, resorts, conference venues and destination marketing organizations, and membership-based, professional & trade associations.I encourage you to visit their blog regularly, attend their webinars and en

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Enterprise YouTube - What the Heck Is It?

BrainShark

Ever since YouTube began its march toward becoming one of the most popular search engines on the planet, companies have been looking for way

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Guest Post: Opportunity Lost: What Don’t Your Testimonials Say About You?

Engage Selling

'’ve seen too many websites with inspiring product offers, gorgeous video, and testimonials to the effect that “you guys really came through for us,” attributed to a “major software company.” Testimonial Director is a service that has templated the fine process of collecting testimonials efficiently and making sure they contain the appropriate information.

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CloudOn Delivers Microsoft Office Apps To Your iPad

Fill the Funnel

CloudOn delivers Microsoft Office applications to your iPad. Finally, for those of you who have lived in a Microsoft Office centric world, you now have access to the core Office Suite on your iPad. You no longer have to hesitate when running out the door to your next appointment, or waste time switching devices. With your iPad and CloudOn you can review Word documents, manipulate pivot tables in Excel, and show off your latest work in PowerPoint.

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.

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Salesforce Announce European & North American Social Success Dream Teams

Jonathan Farrington

Message just in from Salesforce …. Hi Jonathan , Congratulations! You’re a Striker on the European Social Success Dream Team – part of the pretty big Social Success initiative from Salesforce.com. Our team selection panel looked at hundreds of social media-related blogs and yours is one of the top eleven. Take a look and you’ll see you’re in great company.

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Is Your Closing Presentation Meaningful To Your Customer?

Partners in Excellence

Recently, I’ve been reviewing a lot of closing presentations. It’s been for a variety of companies, in different industries, giant and small, around the world. They are all resoundingly the same—and deficient. They’re also a reflection of our sales strategies, so they are, to a degree a reflection of how we have positioned ourselves with the customer.

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