Sales Skills & Mindset
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How to Manage Your Time When Your Schedule is Unpredictable
Unpredictability is part of the beauty of sales. Rather than being cooped up behind a desk, you get to drive around town and meet a variety of people in the process. Each day is different because each day holds new interactions. It’s hard to get bored with a job when no two days look the […]
Time is Money: 4 Ways to Reduce Costs for Your Salespeople
Outside sales costs a pretty penny. With technology upgrades, transportation prices, and the cost of the actual sales team, expenses climb high. How can you save money in growing market? Simple: Save your time. These four practical approaches to economizing your time result in higher sales and a healthier organization. 1. Sell By Location Location-based […]
How to Write the Perfect Sales Email
Who doesn’t get bombarded with sales emails every day? When I open my inbox each morning, message after message blasts me with the latest opportunity only available for a limited time only. My favorite button: delete. Turns out, it’s not just me. In fact, 35% of email recipients open emails based on the subject line […]
Salespeople: Here Are 3 Ways To Save An Hour Per Day
If you were to analyze a typical salesperson’s day, what would you see? Most likely, you’d find them filling out paperwork repeatedly, making conference calls, meeting at specific times (in inconvenient locations), providing customer support for current clients, creating a list of prospects to call, and, let’s not forget, making sales. Sure, there’s value in […]
Recording Sales Calls: Should You Fear “Big Brother”?
A note on recording calls Call recording laws vary by state. Some states require only one party to consent, and roughly a dozen require every party on the call to consent before you record. Which rule applies usually depends on where the people on the call are, not where your company is, so a team […]
What Sales & Marketing Teams Can Learn From The Air Force
For as long as businesses have been marketing and selling, the sales and marketing departments have been at odds. The struggle for power and recognition is ongoing and completely counterproductive, and sometimes an outright battle. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Ideally, marketing and sales teams would support each other’s role in making […]
7 Ways to Lose a Sale
After 20 years and 10,000 deals, I’ve seen some great attempts at closing a sale. I’ve also seen some very bad ones. Of course, those bad attempts resulted in losing the sale. But many times there is just as much to learn from someone who does it completely wrong as there is from a pro. […]
4 Tips for the Introverted Salesperson
If you’re a struggling salesperson, it’s easy to think that great salespeople must’ve been born that way, not made. But nothing could be further from the truth. Sure, some people just have “that thing” that makes them immediately great at sales. But that’s not true for the masses. For most of us, and for introverts, […]
A Day in the Life of a Successful Salesperson
There’s an easy way to identify a successful salesperson: Shadow them for a day and learn about their routine. Because what sets the most successful salespeople apart is the consistency of their daily routine. Often, making just a few adjustments in daily habits can mean the difference between doing alright and doing ridiculously awesome. If […]
5 Things Your Sales Script Should (and Shouldn’t) Include
Sales scripts have been a mainstay for as long as people have been hocking goods on street corners and from wooden carts. Why do they still work today? Because human nature never changes. Essentially, a sales script helps guide the presentation so it hits the right pain points for the audience. The script ensures that […]