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Assumptive Questions: The Quick Way to Improve Your Selling Skills

Mr. Inside Sales

If you would like to instantly improve your selling skills—and so your open and close rate—you can do so by taking just a few minutes to complete the following exercise (don’t worry, it’s easy and fun!). Questions while qualifying: Closed ended: “Do you ever use an outside vendor?” or just—“Hi, __ please.”)

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Selling Skills

Partners in Excellence

They may be more narrowly focused on specific skills like objection handling, prospecting, closing, negotiation. Because what each of us is selling is change! Whether it is switching vendors, improving operations, addressing new opportunities, solving a problem; what we are asking our customers to do is change.

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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?

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Are You Telling the Truth About Asking for Referrals? [Q3 Referral Selling Roundup]

No More Cold Calling

Referrals are how most people prefer to do business, whether they’re looking for a good restaurant or a new software vendor. It takes roughly eight touches for sales reps to reach cold prospects. When you ensure that referrals come first in your business development plan, referral selling becomes a scalable prospecting strategy.

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Do Prospects Lie to Your Salespeople Like the Airlines Do?

Understanding the Sales Force

You don't need to know why we want to move away from our current vendor. We are going to stay with our current vendor (who you learned earlier has been screwing the crap out of them). Prospects must think that salespeople are morons. They must think we are morons. Do you know who else thinks we are morons?

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How to Reengineer Your Sales Training Program

SalesFuel

In addition, consultative selling skills stand out when top performers engage with prospects. These sellers quickly determine the business problems facing their prospects. These proposals show the prospect how the solution will address the core business problem. Credibility is key to buyers.

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Landing the Customer Who Doesn’t Want to Leave Their Long-Standing Vendor

The Sales Hunter

Blog Closing a Sale Cold-Calling Consultative Selling leadership pricing Professional Selling Skills Prospecting competitor price prospect prospecting' The business owner’s problem was simple yet tough. He […].

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