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Close More Sales by Giving Your Customers an Option

The Sales Hunter

Many times customers will hesitate to buy something, even if it’s what they’re looking for, if they feel the salesperson is pressuring them. One way to engage your customer in the closing process and allow them to feel they’re in control is by asking them a question as part of your close.

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Talking Price on the Telephone

The Sales Hunter

Customers will use the telephone as a way to gain an edge with a salesperson, because many salespeople for one reason or another seem to forget how the rules of a face-to-face meeting still apply to a telephone conversation. For example, when you do talk price, you have to be able to do it with a firm, solid voice.

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Sales Amateur or Sales Professional? What are You? | Sales.

The Sales Hunter

Feb 13, 2012. They write a lot of proposals, but have low closing ratios. Phase 2: Closed-Ended Questions (Sales Amateur). Example — “Are you happy with your current vendor…” Phase 3: Manipulative Questions (Sales Amateur). Example — “How long have you been thinking of doing this?

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Sales Motivation: Customers Will Always Pay More For Confidence.

The Sales Hunter

An example I like to use in training programs is comparing two similar items — one being offered on eBay and the other by a store you’ve been buying from for years. I like to share this example as a way of getting salespeople to realize the importance they play in the sale process. customer service.

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Customer Stalling? Here’s What You Do.

The Sales Hunter

We’ve all experienced at one time or another a sales presentation we believe is going well, only to have the customer go into a big stall mode just as you try and close. What makes this worse is many times the customer has been very engaged with you throughout the entire sales call process.

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Smarter Commerce Global Summit 6 Tips for Midmarket Companies

Score More Sales

For midsize companies there was no shortage of ideas, examples, and tools to help any company improve marketing, sales, and procurement. Close More Deals. Having been to last year’s event, I found this year’s Summit in Nashville, with more than 3,000 attendees to be meatier, yet easier to digest. Increase Opportunities.

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What are you learning? How are you learning? | Best Sales Trainer.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Probably the best example of change I can offer you comes from a column I wrote several years ago about the “Benjamin Franklin close.” Basically what the column says is rather than use an old, time-worn manipulative sales close on the customer, try using it on yourself before you go into the sale as a means of preparation.

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