How can you evaluate consultants of any kind and know if they are a fit? Even as consultants, we are often so focused on doing a good job for our clients that we miss the bigger picture. Like any business, we believe in what we do. We do a great job aligning with our customers
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Why didn’t you close that sale? As a sales professional, have you ever actually analyzed why you have been unsuccessful in certain sales? According to a study by Steve Martin, only 12% of salespeople are considered excellent, 23% good, 38% average, and 27% poor. What differentiates salespeople enough for them to be placed in those
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Very few things are as effective as getting in front of your prospect so that you can pitch face-to-face. The system of sales meetings is simple. The more meetings you schedule, the more money you make. Unfortunately, scheduling more than a few meetings a month can be a difficult and time consuming process. How many
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How to Close More Sales by Engaging Your Prospect and Communicating Your Vision How often are you closing significant sales? When you close a big deal, does it feel expected, like part of the process? Or does it feel more like you got lucky? If you are having trouble closing consistently, it may come down
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Great Companies Sell Solutions by Focusing on Value. Have you ever taken a sales call and automatically known that the sales rep was reading from a script? This is far too common. Sales reps have been taught to start off a conversation by asking a series of obvious leading questions so that they can properly
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Closing is the Final Step in a process which can be Tested and Manipulated. Closing is a Science. When you close sales, does it feel normal, or do you feel like you got lucky? The process of closing sales should be considered a process. There are many factors at play that can be adjusted, why
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How Often are you Closing Monstrous Sales? It’s Your Presentation. How often do you get the feeling that you’ve absolutely crushed a sale? Ideally, we’d feel that way every day but sales can be unpredictable. Have you ever considered creating a sales presentation strategy to be more consistent? By creating and enacting a strategy, you
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Provide your employees with opportunities to learn and grow, while giving them a sense of purpose and a view of their potential, and watch them move mountains. A few years ago, the Harvard Business Review released an article explaining how company culture shapes employee motivation, but the information is becoming even more relevant. The HBR
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We all know how difficult it can be to hire a good sales team, and keeping them motivated once they’ve joined the team can be even harder. This is why executing a solid commission plan that everyone benefits from is key. Tom Tunguz wrote a killer article that breaks down the data of different commission
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