Wed.May 20, 2015

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How Top Salespeople Have Perfected Asking For The Order

Bernadette McClelland

How Top Salespeople Have Perfected Asking For The Order I remember hearing someone say once ‘Bernadette, the answer is always no, unless you ask’ and I have always remembered that. Whether I am lost in the car and can’t get […]. The post How Top Salespeople Have Perfected Asking For The Order appeared first on Bernadette McClelland.

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Why Half of the Sales Force Resigned This Month

Understanding the Sales Force

Copyright: 123RF Stock Photo. Half of the company's 20 salespeople have left voluntarily in just the last month and the CEO wants to know why everyone is resigning. He wants Jeff, his sales manager, coached up and needs to recruit replacements. He has tremendous urgency to get this moving and believes that Objective Management Group's (OMG) Sales Candidate Assessment will help him select good salespeople that will stick around.

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5 Tips to Make Your Email Marketing Pitch Perfect

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2015-05-20. Author: Campaigner Email Marketing. Teaser: “Pitch Perfect 2” led the box office on its opening weekend and hopes for a repeat performance over the long holiday weekend. Fat Amy, Beca and Lilly – the Bellas – have made a capella the talk of the town. The folks at Campaigner Email Marketing have developed five “a-ca-mazing” tips for marketers to keep their email in tune and hit a high note with both customers and ROI.

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Will You Be Able to Recruit Good Salespeople in 2015?

Anthony Cole Training

A guest blog by Dave Kulran, President and founder of Objective Management Group, with an introduction by Tony Cole, President of Anthony Cole Training Group. INTRODUCTION: I’ve been working with companies for 22 years: companies of all sizes, in various business segments and across the country. One thing I’ve witnessed, discussed or heard for all of these years is the issue about talent.

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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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Top Sales Performers Know What Cards to Hold

Increase Sales

Imagine for a moment you have a deck of cards. Each card represents a sales lead. Two of those sales leads are Jokers that you immediately discard. If you want to join the ranks of the top sales performers, you must know what sales leads of the remaining 52 cards to hold and those to fold or discard. For small businesses owners, many hold onto all 52 cards and attempt to work all of these sales leads.

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Sales success in an age of disruptive change

Sales Training Connection

Sales Success. Constant change has always characterized the business world. Looking in the rear view mirror has never been a recommended strategy for determining future direction. However, from time to time the nature of the change takes on a different look. The scale and speed of the changes during these periods can truly be labeled disruptive. In the early 19 th century the Industrial Revolution changed everything.

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Time For Our Annual 5 Question Survey

Fill the Funnel

Every year for the past 7 years, I have sent a survey to my entire subscriber list, asking for their input on one primary question and then 4 follow-ups based on the answer to question #1. The first year I called all 37 of you directly and took your responses down in a spreadsheet. This year it will be going out to over 20,000 subscribers and I still value each response.

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I Hire Only Experienced People, I Don’t Need To Train Them

Engage Selling

Today I’ll share the pros of coaching your sellers – even your top sellers – regularly. Today I’ll share the pros of coaching your sellers – even your top sellers - regularly.

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Sales Tips: How to Respond to "What Do You Do for a Living?"

Customer Centric Selling

Sales Tips: How to Respond (and Not Respond) to "What Do You Do for a Living?". By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Image courtesy of Stock Images at FreeDigitalPhotos.net. During initial social meetings, a common icebreaker is asking people what they do for a living. Telling people you’re in Sales usually leads to the follow up question: What do you sell?

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Supercharge Your Sales: 5 Steps to Effortless Selling

Sales teams often lose precious time hunting for updated sales materials, while marketing struggles to keep these assets accessible and current. It's not just about managing; it's about seamlessly finding, presenting, and sharing critical sales content. All of this takes place within an intuitive, unified platform. Dive into Showell's groundbreaking content management realm.

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TSE 141: Sales From The Street “Three Feet From Gold”

Sales Evangelist

We’ve all been there when things got difficult and we felt like quitting; you’re not selling a thing, you start getting frustrated, embarrassed, angry and feel that you just need to quit. Believe me, I’ve been in that position many times and it’s not a pretty place to hang out. But there is light at […] The post TSE 141: Sales From The Street “Three Feet From Gold” appeared first on The Sales Evangelist.

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How to Coach Your Sales Team to Adapt to 3 Changing Market Realities

The Brooks Group

New technologies mean that the marketplace is constantly shifting, and an ever-evolving market will require your sales team to adapt quickly to keep up. Innovations are designed to make lives easier and workflows more efficient, but change is often met with resistance. The truth is that intellectually lazy salespeople will be left behind, as will sales leaders who aren't driven to provide their team the tools to adapt and grow with the changing marketplace.

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The Killer Closing Technique

Partners in Excellence

Sales people continually looking for the killer close. Somehow, there has to be something the sales person can say or do which causes the customer to immediately issue a PO. Through my career, I’ve been “taught” and subjected to 100’s of different closes. The assumptive close, the puppy dog close, the limited time close, and the list goes on and on and on.

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