Posts

A Guide To Closing Sales

Image
  A guide to closing sales with ABC, or “Always Be Closing,” is a learning journey for salespeople looking to improve their sales performance, or “Return on Sales Effort (ROSE). Closing sales is about consistently moving customers towards a desired action or outcome. To keep the sale moving forward to a successful conclusion, salespeople need to gain a series of commitments from the customer. In this guide, we will explore proven strategies that can help you close more sales and achieve your goals. From assumptive and urgency closes to fear of loss and alternative closes, we include practical examples and insights to enhance your closing skills. Whether you’re a seasoned sales professional or just starting out, this guide will equip you with valuable techniques to confidently navigate the closing process and secure successful deals. What does ABC, or ‘Always Be Closing’ really mean? Does it mean being a pushy salesperson—pressuring the customer to decide? Not n...

Build A Sales Process in Eight Easy Steps

Image
Build your process with these easy and quick-to-understand steps. Having a documented sales process is one of the biggest contributors to sales success. An effective sales process helps you track your opportunities, create a common language around the steps of the sale, and make accurate forecasts. Different companies have different names and definitions for their sales stages. Depending on the size and complexity of the deal, sales processes can have between three and eight sales stages. But it doesn’t matter how many there are or what they’re called, as long as everyone agrees and understands each stage. What Are the Main Sales Process Steps? Regardless of whether you are new to sales or an experienced salesperson, the following easy-to-follow steps will guide you through a successful process that adds to your sales engagements. As what each company sells to whom is different, you should adjust or add steps as needed to accommodate your business, product, or prosp...

Sales Methodologies and How To Use Them - The Digital Sales Institute

Image
Sales methodologies play an important role in the nearly every selling situation. It is a common approach that allows salespeople to follow a consistent structure, understand best practices and accelerate learning. The specific sales methodology is only relevant to the buying and selling situations of any individual company as everyone needs to tailor their sales motions to their markets, industries etc. Nothing in sales stands still so salespeople must constantly absorb information on with new products, trends, competitors and importantly changing buyer preferences and influencers on their decisions. So, you could say that a sales methodology involves the application of fundamental sales skills and processes by salespeople. It emphasizes the importance of discovering, communicating, and delivering business value consistently across the entire buyer’s journey. However, for them to be effective, it’s essential every salesperson fully understands and adopts them. ...

Free Sales Training As A Learning Journey - The Digital Sales Institute

Image
 Free sales training can be a step in the right direction for those of you who may be new to sales. Selling is changing rapidly, and having a longer term career as a salesperson now depends on having a far wider range of value added sales skills than even five years ago. Developing and applying the wide range of sales skills needed in today’s complex sales environment can be challenging.  We know that in today’s highly competitive landscape, salespeople face constant challenges in getting customers attention and having meaningful conversations, not to mention trying to hit those targets. To thrive in a digitally driven sales environment, access to sales training and learning is essential. A training resource worth looking at to help improve your sales abilities is free sales training. In this article, we will explore the use of free sales training and how it can help salespeople in their learning journey.   Three Sales Challenges Today, in the informatio...

Sales Training Courses - The Digital Sales Institute

Image
Certified Sales Training Courses Sales training courses online with over 100 sales training videos, 10 full e-book downloads. Plus, over 500 pages of lesson downloads, including tips and templates. Our expertly researched sales training content will lift your sales performance and power your sales career to new heights. Free Lesson Online Courses Online Sales Training Courses Sales Training Programs ...

Essential Selling Skills Easily Mastered

Image
Essential selling skills to master whether you are starting out on your sales career, maybe you have just completed your on boarding sales training or you are already an experienced salesperson in reaching out to customers. Hopefully this list of essential selling skills will make you feel more confident in all aspects of selling to customers. In this article, we’ll focus on some practical and essential selling skills to include in your sales tool bag to act as points of reference in your sales activity. Essential Selling Skills from Theory to Practice OK, firstly we all know that it’s essential for you to develop a whole range of selling skills in order to do your job successfully. A lot of sales training programs fail to engage salespeople due to outdated methodologies or delivery channels. Sitting through lengthy presentations or reading outdated training materials will probably not help you in completing every day-to-day sales tasks. To be effective, yo...