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10 Essential Selling Skills Every Sales Rep Needs in 2018

Hubspot Sales

Selling Skills. Below are the 10 essential selling skills you need to succeed in sales today -- all extracted from the study's findings. These selling skills are what buyers indicated were the top factors that separated sales winners from runners up. Educate prospects with new ideas and perspectives.

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Selling Skills or Selling Process? Which is Holding You Back.

The Sales Hunter

Selling Skills or Selling Process? A person with strong selling skills. Strong selling skills certainly are a beginning. These include the ability to listen, ask questions, create a unique selling proposition and ultimately close. I refer to these as selling skills, not a sales process.

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The Slippery Slope of Discounting | Sales Motivation and Sales.

The Sales Hunter

The Slippery Slope of Discounting. If you as a salesperson — or worse, if you as a sales manager — do not believe in the price of what you sell, then that is a bigger problem than whether you have a tendency to offer a discount. But quantity will never make up for the profits you did lose by selling at a discount.

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Your Price Reflects Your Self-Confidence

The Sales Hunter

A business consultant informed me they had reduced their rates substantially and the outcome from the reduction is they feel a lot better about the service they’re providing their clients. What I found interesting is the rates he had to start with were not high at all. He claimed if his psychologist who […].

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4 Quick Tips to Get Better Prospects

The Sales Hunter

Uncover personal information. Your ability to develop a dialogue with a prospect, especially over time, is going to be much more effective if you know some personal information about the prospect. To me, if it takes a huge discount to turn a prospect into a customer, then they’re not a good prospect.

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Basic and Effective Things You Can Do to Increase Sales

Alice Heiman

Let’s examine how well your team is practicing basic, effective selling skills. . You might assume salespeople are already practicing these skills, but in uncertain times, salespeople sometimes fall back on bad habits (price discounting and following poorly qualified leads would be two examples). Need more sales?

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Using Sales Managers and Executives to Close More 4th Quarter Sales

The Sales Hunter

This is not to discount the work you do, but often times a senior level person can uncover different information. Blog Cold-Calling Consultative Selling Customer Service Professional Selling Skills Prospecting cel prospect prospecting sales prospecting senior level people' It’s your business.