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How To Be Successful in Sales – Without Being Great

Do good customers buy from bad sales people? How come there are so many really bad sales people making money in this world when the professional guys are finding life hard? If you’re the CEO and wondering why that difficult, unsociable, lazy, good for nothing rep makes more money than you do? Or if you’re [...]

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The Sales Secret You Shouldn’t Need

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The Sales Secret -how many times have you read about this special tip which will turn your life around, transforming you into the top producer? I’ve read too many, much to my annoyance. In fact when the need to get really angry about something comes over me that’s where I go, to read what some [...]

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Are Your Customers Smart or Dumb

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Image via Wikipedia Do you have smart customers or dumb customers, and what does the answer say about your business. I assume my customers are smart and work hard at making them smarter, because that way they’ll understand what I’m saying about their wants and how those will be met by my offer. It’s true [...]

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Talk About Money Early and Price Late

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Image via Wikipedia Price, Cost and Money Price is usually the first question asked by the prospect, and needs to be the last answered by the sales rep. The sales guy should sell on cost and close on price. If that doesn’t sound like a customer friendly strategy I’ll understand. Refusing to answer customer questions [...]

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Engaged Customers Lead the Deal

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The customer in buying mode will tell us how to sell the deal. Once s/he’s decided who to buy from it’s really a question of following her lead. In the third of the three emotional states the prospect coaches us. Our challenge is making sure we don’t mess up, losing the deal and the prospect [...]

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Integrity is the Sales Guys Only Asset

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Image via Wikipedia In selling integrity is everything. Sales people who mislead customers don’t last very long in today’s world of instant, global communication. On the other hand sales guys who value their integrity – honesty, empathy and efficiency – continue to excel, year after year. The old tricks of the sales game simply don’t [...]

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Selling B2B in the People Dimension

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Selling B2B is never simple – there are too many influences on the decision. But the sales guy who focuses on selling to the people rather than the business in B2B can maximise the opportunity of winning, and minimise the threat of being out played by the competition. Businesses may buy what we offer, but [...]

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Secret Health Food You Wont Believe

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Coffee turns out to be the new health food, or that’s the conclusion of this post by NewsMaxHealth Unfortunately the article doesn’t mention blood pressure, which is the reason my doctor tells me to take it easy on the black stuff. If I still lived in Ireland he’d be telling me to take it easy [...]

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Always be prepared to walk away.

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Being ready to qualify out of a sale usually will mean we don’t have too. Some sales deals we just don’t need, or want. When the customer gets too difficult, wanting too much for too little, we should qualify out of the sale and walk away from the deal. Strangely, always being prepared to walk [...]

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Reluctant Rainmaker’s Guide to Success in Sales

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Success in sales is more about integrity than tricks, more about efficiency than popularity and more about process than black magic. These are lessons every sales professional learns on the job – not training classes or books. Here’s an introduction to 10 basic principles any newcomer to sales can understand in a few minutes. They’ll [...]

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