When you think of sales, what comes to your mind? Do you imagine a motivated deal closer or a jaded salesperson trying to reach grumpy customers with cold calls or emails? Or maybe you imagine a sales guru giving young executives the “sell me this pen” spiel.
Whatever be your imagination, the reality is that we are all salespeople and the only difference is the goods we are trying to hawk. Our sales effectiveness section is designed for all of you. But particularly for growing businesses whose business demands that they not just close but exceed their targets.
One of the oldest professions known to us, sales, has evolved with every decade, changing consumer preferences, advancing technology, and the emergence of renowned sales leaders. Expectedly, this means a number of sales techniques have cropped up as best practices and mantras over time, usually developed simply from what works or from the observations of sales leaders. […]
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Let’s be blunt about it: Sales motivation isn’t often a part of growing business culture. That’s because it’s an effort that needs to be driven from the top down. Senior leaders in growing businesses are usually caught up in revenue-generating activities. They are generally stressed out about a million other things! But we’ve said it before and we’ll say […]
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If you’re wondering whether sales enablement is something you should think about, you’ve come to the right place. Every once in a while, a term becomes the hottest new thing as sales techniques and best practices are always advancing. Today, this is happening for the term ‘sales enablement’. This is probably what leads you to […]
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Sales includes a lot of different terminologies and terms that can tend to be confusing for sales beginners to understand. If you are a newbie on a team, you probably find yourself silent and nodding along when you hear a new term, or trying to fake it till you make it. Hence, if you’ve been using […]
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Is there such a thing as a non-ambitious salesperson? Every salesperson we know wants to hit those targets! And to be able to hit your targets and make a great commission, you need to be a high-performing sales executive in a high-performing sales team. Unfortunately, (or fortunately), it’s a field where the better you are the better you do in every single […]
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“How you sell is more important than what you sell.” – Andy Paul, Global Sales Experts, and Author. This quote by Andy Paul is deemed true by those in the sales and marketing domain as some words can be extremely powerful in engaging customers and improving sales skills. But, have you ever wondered how using these powerful […]
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Salespeople often hear negative responses in as many different ways as possible. Especially in the B2B industry, where the duration of the cycle keeps getting longer and buyers are more particular about the purchase. A sales professional, then, has to take care of objection handling from every level of hierarchy in the buyer’s company before finally getting the go-ahead or facing the dreaded “No!”. Without proper objection handling, these […]
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Your sales pitch needs to be quick, simple to understand, and should effectively communicate the benefit of your product so that you can create a spark of interest in your prospect and have them continue talking to you.
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When was the last time someone told you, “You just have to watch this movie, it will help you get better at your job?” Allow us to do that to benefit your team’s business motivation (We wish someone would do it for us). Being in sales is challenging and stressful and, let’s be honest, can get you down […]
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