by Phil Sayers | Nov 10, 2019 | News
What’s the word most people associate with salespeople. “Pushy.” Ouch! Persistence is part of being a salesperson. In fact, 80% of sales require five or more follow-ups. And there’s an obvious difference between consistently adding a bit of value...
by Phil Sayers | Oct 27, 2019 | News
Picture the scene…. You’re in a sales demo, the company CEO just arrived… late, apologises and immediately jumps into aggressive questioning. This is the biggest deal in your pipeline, you’ve been forecasting it for nine months, and, suddenly, it’s being threatened....
by Phil Sayers | Sep 16, 2019 | News, Uncategorized
You might sell a product that genuinely makes conducting business easier, but this doesn’t grant you a simple sales process. The sales process can be long, tedious, and frustrating, no matter how innovative your product may be. Selling to businesses often means...
by Phil Sayers | Aug 19, 2019 | News
When you’ve been in sales a while, it’s easy to develop bad habits. You pick them up from colleagues or take a shortcut during an especially busy week and, all of a sudden, you’ve added some skills to your repertoire that aren’t helping you...
by Phil Sayers | Jul 22, 2019 | News, Uncategorized
What is a Sales Cycle “Sales Cycle” refers to the specific actions salespeople follow to close a new customer. Sales cycles are often confused with sales methodologies. A sales methodology, such as the “inbound sales methodology,” refers to the...
