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WARNING! Do You Suffer from Sales Prevention Syndrome?

The Sales Hunter

Hesitation to call customers and especially to call prospects. Every time you meet with your boss, you say something like, “If only we had _, then I would be able to sell a lot more.” You blame your lack of success on your territory and how you would be more successful if you had a better territory.

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What Type of Salesperson Are You? [Quiz]

Hubspot Sales

They're not particularly inclined to uncover needs, but if the prospect knows what they want, the shopkeeper can find it for them. Farmers are good at technical, team, relationship, and consultative selling. They’re the masters of smooth, soft selling and are not afraid to ask for a prospect's business. Shopkeeper.

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Effective Sales Management Is Emotion Management

Women Sales Pros

If I didn’t have so many after-the-sale issues, I’d have more time to prospect.” “Our I have the worse territory in the country.” She is the creator of the Ei Selling® System , a unique and powerful sales program that integrates emotional intelligence skills with consultative selling skills.

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Who’s Coaching Our Customers?

Partners in Excellence

The sales person learns how to think about what they are doing and how to be more effective–whether we are coaching deal, account, territory management, prospecting, or pipeline skills. If we examine the foundations of things like Challenger or Consultative selling, we see they are really built on coaching approaches.

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Do You Have a Personal Marketing Plan?

Pipeliner

Describe your ideal prospect – Profile them. People buy whatever you have to sell because of who you are. How do you need to position yourself in the market place – your territory or your accounts? What are their likes and dislikes? How do you market to them? How do you meet them?

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10 Sales Interview Questions to Hire the Perfect Sales Team

Sales Hacker

Instead, top reps are leveraging the latest thought leadership topics to form connections with prospects and spark mutually engaging conversations. After all, any top-talent sales rep should be able to talk the talk to their prospects, even outside of a social-selling environment. On a similar note… 3.

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The Pipeline ? The six elements of a perfect sales meeting

The Pipeline

Practice objection-handling or consultative selling skills. Prospecting. Sell Better. Selling to Executives. Social Selling. Territory Alignment. 3 R’s of Prospecting Success. Constantly make your team better. Bring in outsiders to teach a skill or customer insight. Do role-playing.