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 for event that can trigger the sales for you.
It could be something internal or inside the company, like a new direction from management, a merger or an acquisition, rapid growth, or maybe a new product …

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 should be only part of your expertise.
Consequently, through unorganized, hit-or-miss methods, his cost of selling is high simply because his methods are not as efficient as they should be.
This does not mean you shouldn’t use …

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 is bound to be a lot of stumbling afterward.
The importance of the preliminary preparation of the salesperson in knowledge of his products or services has already been emphasized in the preceding posts on this blog. …

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 the market.
The only thing you can accomplish is to lose a precious time chasing prospects who are not interested for your product, or they are not a fit for your products or services at all.
Many …

During my workshops and seminars I am regularly being asked for my opinion on what is needed to be successful in sales. Here it is – a short list of things that every salesperson needs to do regularly, day-by-day, week-by-week, to ensure the continuous success in sales.

Never ever stop learning
Stay positive
Take time off
Stay in control of your emotions
Work with decision makers exclusively
Set your selling quota
Stay committed
Put the rubber on the road, not on the carpet
Stick to the system
Watch your language, appearance, and behavior
Get organized
Set small goals
Prepare a “to do” list …

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 making full or partial payment (as in the case of installments) to the seller.
Selling is therefore a process in which you need to follow certain steps, one at a time, to reach your final goal …

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 pipeline is easy … but if they aren’t ready to buy, you’ll waste precious time that could be better spent pursuing accounts that are ready to sign. Although the economy is in strife, people are still buying. The …

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 buy, you’ll waste precious time that could be better spent pursuing accounts that are ready to sign. Although the economy is in strife, people are still buying. The key is to identify which prospects are ready to buy …