Remove Negotiation Remove Objections Remove Prospecting Remove Selling Skills
article thumbnail

The Science of Basic Selling Skills

Bernadette McClelland

Make your key objective to help the customer, not to close a sale. 5. Know your prospects. Find the problem, discover solution, present why solution is best for prospect. 9. Negotiation. Somehow, focusing on ‘closing skills’ doesn’t seem enough. 6. Know your competition. Solve their problems. Networking.

article thumbnail

Selling Skills

Partners in Excellence

We have terrific programs about how we sell. They may be more narrowly focused on specific skills like objection handling, prospecting, closing, negotiation. Why not train sellers with the same programs, processes, jargon our customers use rather than “invent” a unique “selling approach?”

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Selling Skills for New Salespeople

The Digital Sales Institute

Selling skills for new salespeople usually have some differentiators from the sales skills that a more experienced salesperson has due to learning about the sales process and understanding all the steps in the sale alongside product knowledge. Selling today can range from the uncomplicated to the deeply complex.

article thumbnail

6 Sales Negotiation Secrets of Professional Buyers

The Sales Hunter

Professional buyers are just that because they know how to negotiate. Their objective isn’t to take advantage of you, even if it does feel that way at the time. Their objective is to help reduce the cost of buying for their company. Buyers will… 1. Keep arguing about the price being too high, even if it isn’t.

article thumbnail

Are “Traditional” Selling Skills Even Relevant Anymore?

Partners in Excellence

Even concepts of insight based selling are repackaging of consultative, solution, customer focused selling programs of the 60s, 70s, 90s. And, there’s always endless product training (actually most of sales training ends up not being selling skills, but instead product training.). What do you think?

article thumbnail

STOP Letting Customers Control Sales Negotiations | Sales.

The Sales Hunter

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Selling a Price Increase. Negotiation. Communication Skills. Negotiating Doesn’t Have to Mean Sacrificing Profit. STOP Letting Customers Control Sales Negotiations. Salespeople love to negotiate. FREE Resources.

article thumbnail

Sales Negotiation Strategies Checklist | Sales Motivation and Sales.

The Sales Hunter

Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Selling a Price Increase. Negotiation. Communication Skills. Negotiating Doesn’t Have to Mean Sacrificing Profit. Sales Negotiation Strategies Checklist. This does not mean all sales negotiations are going to be won.