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[2 May 2011 | 4 Comments | ]
Differentiate Prospects from Suspects

If you want to be a successful sales person and to close the deal, very important part is to be in front of your customers at the exact time when they are on the market for goods or services. You can find companies they are on the market now, or you can put them in [...]

Closing, Lead Generation, Prospecting, Selling Process »

[21 Mar 2011 | 5 Comments | ]
The Four Major Steps in Sales

By definition, a sale is the act of meeting prospective buyers and providing them with a product or service in return for money or other agreed upon compensation. A sale is an act of completion of a commercial activity. The “deal is closed”, means the customer has consented to the proposed product or service by [...]

Prospecting, Sales Success »

[14 Mar 2011 | One Comment | ]
21 Ideas for a Successful Career in Sales

Are you suited up, trained and ready to get out there and win? Success in this world is fundamentally a matter of selling, of using its principles whether in business, society, or politics, and applying them properly and effectively. During my workshops and seminars I am regularly being asked for my opinion on what is [...]

Sales Success »

[28 Feb 2011 | One Comment | ]
5 Classes of Sales

The sale can be divided into five classes, according to simplicity. Class 1. The simplest business sale is one in which the customer is so anxious to buy at a specified price that he comes to the salesperson and voluntarily offers her the proper amount of money for the products. As an illustration, take the [...]

Cold Calling, Lead Generation, Prospecting, Qualifying, Trigger Events »

[13 Jan 2011 | One Comment | ]
Hit or miss doesn’t work in selling

Many sales are lost because salespeople assume they know what the customer wants. Sales people like to made assumptions of knowledge about what the buyer wants and needs, or sometimes more important why the buyer might be motivated to buy. Using one’s instincts and sixth sense is fine in the equation of success, but it [...]

Cold Calling, Lead Generation, Prospecting, Selling Process, Trigger Events »

[10 May 2010 | One Comment | ]
What are trigger events and how to use them

Your mission as a sales person should be to find companies that have immediate wants and needs. This means that something happened or is happening to them – a move, a merger, new investors, etc. You have to look for any event that might create the opportunity for you, or better said you are looking [...]

Prospecting, Selling Process »

[11 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]

The average salesperson is overly eager to begin actual selling, and in this ambition he or she is encouraged by the average sales manager.  In selling, as in many other activities of life, it often is true that less haste makes more speed. It does not pay to rush the preparation steps, for the result [...]

Lead Generation, Sales Education, Trigger Events, Webinar »

[1 Apr 2009 | One Comment | ]

Tomorrow, April 2nd, I am holding a webinar and there are only few more spots available. Title is: Find Buyers Who Are Ready to Buy…Now! Learn to Identify the Trigger Events That Motivate Prospects to Buy “I have lot of business in my pipeline, but very few deals are closing.” Adding prospects to a sales [...]

Lead Generation, Prospecting, Qualifying, Sales Education, Sales Training, Trigger Events, Webinar »

[13 Mar 2009 | One Comment | ]

My new webinar is scheduled for April 2nd: Find Buyers Who Are Ready to Buy…Now! Learn to Identify the Trigger Events That Motivate Prospects to Buy “I have lot of business in my pipeline, but very few deals are closing.” Adding prospects to a sales pipeline is easy … but if they aren’t ready to [...]