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Sales Reps Not Closing Sales? Try This

No More Cold Calling

If your team has trouble closing, go back to the beginning—qualifying prospects—and examine your entire sales process for missing links and ineffective tactics. Ask yourself: How are sales reps sourcing leads? How are sales reps qualifying their leads? What is their sales plan for following up? And that’s referral leads.

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[Note to the Sales Manager] Why Your Sales Reps Can’t Close

No More Cold Calling

If you’re a sales manager, you’ve probably even said it. The problem is that sales reps neglect important activities during early stages of the sales process. I asked my client how the sales reps prepared. ” Was their sales manager clueless, or what? You are now a true sales manager.

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Do you value your selling time highly enough?

Sales 2.0

People in organizations like me (I’d call me a “gatekeeper” and a “user” in this case) need lots of information to verify and validate their buying decisions. Gathering all that information and packaging it for your prospect can take a big chunk out of your sales week. And I didn’t even mention writing proposals.

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Stop “Following Up,” and Start Closing

Mr. Inside Sales

Is it something like: “I’m just calling to follow up on our proposal….”. I know you were meeting with your boss about our proposal, and I know you were recommending this to him. How do you open your 2 nd or 3 rd. call to prospects whom you’ve already pitched? I’m just calling to see what you thought about our bid?”. Who Should Attend?

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How Technology Has Changed Selling: New Tools, Old Rules

Fill the Funnel

LinkedIn , InsideView , SalesLoft and many other sales tools are available for 24 hour monitoring of everything your customers and prospects are doing, and alerting you to these changes the moment they occur. The Gatekeeper. Old Rule: Do you remember the dance with the gatekeeper? Preparing Quotes and Proposals.

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3 Factors To Increase Healthcare Sales With Virtual Selling

Sell Integrity

If you’re trying to get a customer on a web meeting or phone call, you need to be able to articulate what you’re proposing and, most importantly, why. Don’t Forget the Sales Managers. Sales managers may be nervous about how to coach and support their teams, since many of them haven’t done a lot of virtual selling themselves.

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The Importance of Call Dispositions & How to Leverage Them in Reporting

ExecVision

To further illustrate what call dispositions might look like, here are three examples from organizations with different sales motions: Outbound Prospecting (Cold Calling). Gatekeeper. Connected – Gatekeeper or Future Follow Up. Full Sales Cycle. Gatekeeper (Admin, S/B, Other Person). Proposal Review Call.

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