Sandler sales tips and insights
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Tune into this podcast with our very own @DarynLawson and Wolf Krammel with Smarter Revolution - Sales & Marketing Fusion as they discuss how to Break the Rules, Change the Sales Game, and avoid common Sales Problems:
You have to start a dialogue that gets the prospect to predict the future for you. It isn’t invasive, it isn’t a transparent question, and it simply forces both parties to understand the next steps in the relationship. If your prospect can’t answer a question about what would happen if a proposal fulfilled everything they wanted, then you may have to seriously consider if you’re in a “free consulting” situation.
Chris and Erik sit down to discuss the I/R Theory (Identity/Role). It represents the dual nature of our lives. Each of us has an "I" and an "R." Our "I" represents our values, beliefs, principles, desires and emotions--our inner selves. Our "R" is made up of the many roles we play in our lives, or our outer selves. These roles include son, daughter, friend, student, salesperson, etc.
Getting emotionally involved in sales is fatal. Buying is an emotional experience for the prospect, but it should not be an emotional experience for you. Rather, you need to keep your composure and be a little bit detached from the emotional roller coaster that is selling.
Chris and Erik sit down to discuss how to remove emotion from your daily activity, prospecting in meetings during this time.
Have you ever wasted time and effort on a sale that you weren't going to close anyway?
What are you afraid of?
Do you suffer from the scarcity mindset?
Are you an amateur or a professional?
The fear of losing a sale that has yet to be completed haunts too many salespeople.
This fear prevents us from asking the questions that need to be asked. This fear prevents us from doing what needs to be done to either a) close the sale...or b) discover that the opportunity didn't really measure up after all, and then move on.
Countless people go through sales training seminars every year only to emerge with slick tricks, a few doses of confidence and a belief that they’ll be able to bully any prospect they meet into signing on the dotted line. While this may do just fine for the quick, lucky payday, it is not a system that builds long-term, profitable relationships.
Countless people go through sales training seminars every year only to emerge with slick tricks, a few doses of confidence and a belief that they’ll be able to bully any prospect they meet into signing on the dotted line. While this may do just fine for the quick, lucky payday, it is not a system that builds long-term, profitable relationships.
Chris and Erik sit down to discuss how to remove emotion from your daily activity and how to prospect in meetings during these challenging times.
Have you ever put off your prospecting tasks…and faced an income crisis as a result? Focus on the end result. Prospecting is a selection process.
Cast your net. Prospecting is simply the act of finding prospects- those who need your product or service- while they are hiding in a sea of suspects.
You must keep your focus on that goal: finding prospects.
Have you ever lost a sale – and felt like a personal failure? It’s OK to fail. You as a person are not a failure. There is the REAL-your vs. the ROLE-you.
Erik Meier and Chris Drouin sit down to go through the rules on what to do in this day and age of uncertainty.
Ken Seawell shares a Christmas message to you this year.
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The best-selling sales classic on driving success updated with Sandler CEO and President, Dave Mattson, providing additional skills designed for today’s highly competitive, more complex, tech-savvy sales landscape.
Author and Sandler trainer Rich Chiarello offers sales teams tasked with selling technical solutions a proven program for success, based on the Sandler Selling System.
Competitively pursuing large, complex accounts with multiple constituencies and multiple decision makers is perhaps the biggest challenge for sales professionals.
