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Hiring Your First Sales Person

Hiring Your First Sales Person

So, your business is growing, you’ve identified the growth objectives you want to achieve over the next few years, and you know that you can’t physically do everything required to achieve those objectives. Now it’s time for you to hire someone else to handle...
Tips For Effective Negotiation

Tips For Effective Negotiation

Wouldn’t it be good if every sales call you made ended with the customer agreeing to buy from you at the price that you’ve quoted? For products and services with a relatively low price point, this might happen, but for most businesses it doesn’t. Let’s be honest, if...
Objectionable Customers

Objectionable Customers

Some sales discussions will move easily through the sales process and you can close straight away, but often the customer will come up with a reason why they’re not ready to commit to buy your product. When this happens, it may feel like you’ve come up against a brick...
10 Habits of Highly Effective Closers

10 Habits of Highly Effective Closers

If you asked most people what they thought the most important skill for sales people is, many would say the same thing. Of course, that’s no great surprise, not least because it’s arguably the most visible part of the sales process. We’ve all been “closed” at some...
Elevator Pitches – Cliché or Useful Sales Tool

Elevator Pitches – Cliché or Useful Sales Tool

I’ve read incredibly mixed comments about elevator pitches. Some people see them as pointless, others see them as an absolute no brainer addition to a sales person’s toolkit. Me?…. I’m firmly in the second camp… provided of course that the “pitch” has been...