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The Bob Chronicles - The Difference Between Selling Skills and Effectiveness

Understanding the Sales Force

I receive calls and emails that begin with things like "My salespeople are complacent" or "My salespeople need some training on closing" or "My salespeople aren't bringing in enough new business" or "My salespeople need help with negotiating" or "Our team has a lot of stalled opportunities."

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The Science of Basic Selling Skills

Bernadette McClelland

5. Know your prospects. Find the problem, discover solution, present why solution is best for prospect. 9. Negotiation. So, if we take the top three as a sample and reframe them as our foundational basics, our previously shared ‘surface basics’ seem a little lacking: Complex Problem Solving Skills. Build rapport.

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Selling Skills

Partners in Excellence

We have terrific programs about how we sell. They may be more narrowly focused on specific skills like objection handling, prospecting, closing, negotiation. Why not train sellers with the same programs, processes, jargon our customers use rather than “invent” a unique “selling approach?”

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Selling Skills for New Salespeople

The Digital Sales Institute

Selling skills for new salespeople usually have some differentiators from the sales skills that a more experienced salesperson has due to learning about the sales process and understanding all the steps in the sale alongside product knowledge. Selling today can range from the uncomplicated to the deeply complex.

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How to Improve Your Consultative Selling Skills? (video)

Pipeliner

In today’s expert insight interview, Amy and John discuss “How to improve your consultative selling skills.” ” This Expert Insight Interview Discusses: What are the various consultative sales skills? Approach to Consultative Selling. The Influence of the Pandemic on Consultative Selling.

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6 Sales Negotiation Secrets of Professional Buyers

The Sales Hunter

Professional buyers are just that because they know how to negotiate. Blog Closing a Sale leadership Negotiation pricing Professional Selling Skills Prospecting Purchasing Department buyer negotiating negotiation price professional buyer prospect prospecting purchasing department'

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You’ll Do A Lot Less of THIS if You Prospect Better…

The Sales Hunter

Do you know what you’ll be doing less of if you become better at prospecting? Negotiating. You’ll be doing a lot less negotiating. I imagine that is music to your ears, because who of us really likes negotiating? Most salespeople I meet really don’t care for negotiating or prospecting.