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3 Keys to Successfully Dealing with Influencers

Mr. Inside Sales

Influencers are key to both getting through to decision makers, and to eventually making a sale. The question is: How do you properly qualify them and get them to influence the sale in your favor? They are: Key Number One: Understand exactly how much influence the influencer has.

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3 Tips To Ensure You’re Selling To The Decision Maker

MTD Sales Training

You also get to hear about the stages they go through in making decisions, and allows the person to still keep face if they aren’t the main protagonist. If you find the person you’re talking to isn’t the main decision-maker, you can still carry on the discussion, but be careful with how you progress. Happy Selling! Sean McPheat.

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5 Questions for Influencers

Mr. Inside Sales

More and more these days, decision makers hid behind their assistants or other influencers. Many sales reps get frustrated by this and often try to get past these very important people, thinking that only the decision maker is worth talking to. Is the influencer going to know any or all of this? Big mistake.

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Three Recent Hurricanes Show the Path to More Effective Selling

Understanding the Sales Force

One major key to success in sales is a salesperson’s ability to reach decision makers. Salespeople who reach THE decision maker are 341% more likely to close the business than those who fail to reach the decision maker. Objective Management Group (OMG) has assessed nearly 2.4

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Stop Jumping Through Hoops to Get a Sale

Mr. Inside Sales

And, if they are an influencer collecting information, then: “What is the timeline of the (decision maker) to put something like this to work for them?” And, to qualify the influencer: “How do you get involved in the decision process?” Does the (decision maker) take your suggestions/advice?”

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Sales Challenge: Gaining Access to the Decision-Maker

Carew International

One of the most significant challenges for any sales professional is gaining access to the ultimate decision-maker(s), particularly when we have a contact who engages us in our sales effort, but he or she is not making the final decision. A lack of direct access to the decision-maker is frustrating for many reasons.

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3 Skills for Influencing the Customer’s Thinking

Sales and Marketing Management

C-Suite decision makers are under pressure to maintain a short-term focus on achieving the next quarter’s business targets. With so many powerful influences weighing on the customer’s psyche, modern professionals need sales training that empowers them to enter the sales dialogue with an equally strong set of influential tools.