Closing a Sale

Is Your Sales Pipeline Plugged?

May 08, 2012

How is your sales pipeline doing? Is it turning out the types of leads you need or is it merely junked up with stuff you don’t realize is junk? Too many salespeople keep leads in their sales pipeline that have zero potential of every resulting in sales, but they do this just to give them [...]

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You Must Leverage Knowledge to Boost Profits

May 02, 2012

How much do you really know about your customer’s wants and needs? The level of knowledge a salesperson has about a customer will directly impact the amount profit they will be able to maximize from the customer. Sounds so simple, doesn’t it? After all, knowing your customer is really the essence of your job as [...]

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Are Your Customers Confident in You?

Apr 28, 2012

We’ve been exploring the specifics of my 5 Sales Tips to Maximize Your Price. We already covered Sell the Outcome, Not the Activity and Sell the Urgency of the Customer’s Timeline. Today I want to emphasize the importance of increasing the level of confidence the customer has in you. The more confident the customer is with you, the [...]

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Sell the Urgency of the Customer’s Timeline

Apr 27, 2012

As promised, I’m cruising through the specifics of my 5 Sales Tips to Maximize Your Price. We already covered Sell the Outcome, Not the Activity. Today we are focusing on what it means to… Sell the urgency of the customer’s timeline. Customers are far more willing to pay more when what you have is what they need [...]

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Why You Should Skip the Sales Presentation

Apr 25, 2012

A big part of selling involves understanding all the ins and outs of your product or service. And it seems that especially when you are meeting with a major client, you will go to great lengths to prepare a thorough sales presentation. Maybe it even has quite a few bells and whistles (PowerPoints, nicely-printed handouts [...]

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