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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!). Need More Proven Responses to the Selling Situations You Face Every Day? or—“Can I talk to _?) or just—“Hi, __ please.”)

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The 3-Point Framework To Overcome Cold Call Objections

Gong.io

Cold call objections are par for the course for outbound sales reps. But what separates the top salespeople from the average ones is how these cold call objections are handled, deflected, and turned into something that keeps the buyer on the phone and, ideally, helps book that first meeting. Thanks for calling that out.”.

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

No More Cold Calling

Get the latest from No More Cold Calling. I wondered about those in non-traditional sales roles like customer success, CPAs, attorneys, architects, engineers, and consultants—who are now being asked to sell. Referral selling is hard for us all, because it’s the most personal kind of selling. Why would they?

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Touch the Side of Your Face to Emphasize a Pause

The Sales Hunter

To emphasize you’re thinking, go ahead and touch the side of your face. Notice I say “touch the side of your face.” Notice I say “touch the side of your face.” Don’t think you need to touch the side of your face each time you pause to collect your thoughts.

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3 Referral Selling Skills All B2B Sales Reps Should Practice

No More Cold Calling

Building professional skills takes practice— deliberate practice. Want your sales team to build permanent, repeatable, effective referral selling skills? Here’s how B2B sales professionals can keep their referral skills sharp: 1. Someone to be “in their face” and ensure they do what they say they’ll do.

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2 Great New Year’s Questions for Your Clients

Mr. Inside Sales

If I get an, “Ah, I don’t know,” then I once again use layering questions like: “Have you heard of my new On Demand Inside Selling Skills Training?” So, write up your questions, call your prospects, and listen to how best to serve and sell them! Need More Proven Responses to the Selling Situations You Face Every Day?

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Do You Make Time for Your Sales Reps to Practice?

No More Cold Calling

Sure, sales reps know they must practice new skills, practice presentations, practice writing, practice speaking—practice, practice, practice. We get paid to sell. These super-sales achievers determine the critical, deal-breaking skills needed for sales success. Referral selling is a skill that requires practice—lots of it.

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