Digital Selling and Sales Training Journal

Sales buzzwords to use and lose is about learning sales phrases that work and the ones we need to drop out of our sales vocabulary. These can be the buzzwords we use internally as sales speak or external ones we bring into our sales conversations. Unfortunately, many internal buzzwords find their way into presentations and sales pitches where customers can struggle to understand the definition of them.  Or worse, they think the terms are irrelevant, smug, or boring. Are sales buzzwords even useful? In a word, Yes. Buzzwords can demonstrate our knowledge of a market, industry, or process. Understanding the buzzwords our customers may use can indicate that we have taken the time to learn about their business. For example, someone selling into the manufacturing industry may want to understand buzzwords such as GMP (good manufacturing practice) or Lean (waste minimization). In our every

Preparing for a sales interview means researching and understand what type of sales interview questions you may get asked. Cultivating interviewing techniques is undeniably a skill, however as we may only use this skill a limited number of times, salespeople can be better salespeople than interviewees. In many ways an interview is like a sales meeting, where they tend to thorough, demanding, draining and rigorous. So, the real first step in the sales interview process, is to ask yourself the question “do you truly understand the sales role you are interviewing for?” or “do you understand the sales tasks you will be expected to preform if you were to be successful?” If you believe you are the right person to fulfill this role (if in doubt seek clarification on the role etc) then you can start to prepare for the sales interview questions. Sales Interview Questions Template Get your sales stories in order. These are the situational interview questions such as…tell