It’s Time to Throw Away the Marketing Materials

Jun 12, 2013

How effective are the marketing materials you receive? If you’re like the typical salesperson, you get more marketing information than you could ever begin to use. In fact, little of it is actually worth using. It’s time marketing departments wake up and quit shoveling garbage out to salespeople, all under the premise of helping them [...]

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Your Customer Has Changed. Have You? 6 Questions You Must Answer.

Jun 05, 2013

What parts of your sales process are you still using that your customer couldn’t care less about? Below are 6 questions you must ask yourself about your selling process: 1.  What percentage of my customers have done research on the internet before meeting with me? At what point during the sales process are they doing [...]

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4 Secrets on How to Respond When They Say, “I Just Want to Know Your Price.”

May 29, 2013

The phone rings and the person says they just want to know your price. Is this a customer, a prospect, a suspect, or just somebody knee-jerking you? We’ve all had that price statement posed to us in one form or another.  It’s tempting to get excited, and the new salesperson is the one most likely [...]

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VIDEO SALES TIP: How to Keep Your Customer Engaged After the Call

May 25, 2013

Do you struggle keeping your prospect or customer engaged after the sales call? This is a big challenge, but it is not insurmountable.  There are specific techniques to keep the customer engaged in a way that will increase your likelihood of making a sale. Check out the below video to hear more about these prospecting [...]

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Help Your Customers Achieve What Seems Unreachable

May 08, 2013

When you help your customers achieve what seems unreachable, you are paving the way for both of you to succeed. I’m always fascinated when I talk to salespeople who are so intently focused on their product or service that they lose sight of what the product or service actually means to the customer. This goes [...]

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