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Sales Managers Survival Guide – Review Questions

Sales Manager

Every Sales Manager needs a set of questions they’ll use to review their sales reps pipelines and qualify the deals in them. Those questions will tell them the probability each deal will turn into a real sale, and highlight risks of losing out to competition, or of the sale not going down. Ideally the same [...]

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Seth’s Blog: 16 questions for free agents

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What’s in your value proposition? Can you explain in clear terms what you’ll do (and what you won’t do) and how it benefits you? Can you explain in terms your customer will understand why people choose you over the competition and how they’re better off, because they did? Here’s a list of questions entrepreneurs or [...]

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Conditional Close, find what the customer really wants.

Sales Coach

We talked elsewhere about the benefits, to the seller, of asking for the order and the way it drives out objections we might not know about. There other ways we can use closing as a technique, for handling objections, and for more closely defining requirements. One such technique is generally known as the conditional close. [...]

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How to Ask for the Order

Sales Coach

Ask for the order! The prospect expects us to ask and the response we get will tell us how to win it. Asking for the order can be a hard thing to do! It puts pressure on the prospect, because it asks him to make a decision. A decision, not necessarily whether to award the [...]

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Ask the hard questions early.

Sales Qualification

In sales qualification we need to ask some direct, maybe challenging, questions. The longer we delay asking the harder it gets to do. Both we and the customer have something invested in the buy/sell process and it gets harder to walk away. That’s why we need to ask the hard questions early. Our sales process [...]

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