Archive for July, 2009

You can send all of your sales team to get further sales training . You can invest in tapes, CD’s, DVD’s and books on sales techniques and training. If you are selling something especially complicated, you may need to break your sales …

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Motivation is the key to improved performance in any field. A Basketball or Football coach knows this so does a sales manager. From the 50s to the 70s the biggest motivation sales managers offered was, “perform or else”…Sales managers later realized that bonuses, perks, paid vacations, and gifts work as good motivators and they used the phrase “perform or else” sparingly and only in extreme situations. But even the best of monetary incentives fail to motivate sales professionals at times. Throwing money at a motivational issue cannot solve all the motivational problems.

It is the responsibility of the sales managers to keep their sales team motivated all the time. The situation can get tricky when the sales manager finds it tough to keep himself motivated. Sales professionals can lack motivation due to a number of reasons including tough market conditions such as a recessive economy. Nearly seventy percent of the sales managers have no experience of steering the sales force in a recessive economy. How can they lead the sales team in such a situation? It would be like the blind leading the blind. It is then they should consider motivational sales training by a professional trainer.

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Sales Negotiation Training

If you’re part of the majority of people who doesn’t have the gab for sales, then you probably need some sort of a sales negotiation training.  Selling does sound intimidating.  The business of sales is a negotiation process.  There’s no doubt about that.  Every step in the selling process has a form of negotiation to it.  You negotiate for their time so you can present them with your product or service.  Then you negotiate while trying to make the sale while they negotiate and haggle on the price.  Then you negotiate and try to close the sale.

If you don’t have the talent and the skills, it can be downright depressing and frustrating.  That’s why a lot of people are on the lookout for a sales negotiation training.  But shouldn’t it be a part of the program that they are in?  Unfortunately, a lot of business opportunities don’t offer additional training.  For most of those that do offer training, it’s often outdated and it’s not continuous.  So you are often stuck with a business that won’t help you during sales negotiation.

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I really need to take my company to next level and feel thats only going to happen if I really start selling at another level. But really could use some professional training. Any ideas???

If you can’t find a qualified person to help, don’t sit on your hands and mope, DO IT YOURSELF! 

There are all kinds of seminars, workshops, sales training books as well as other mediums to learn about sales. Any Sales Manager worth his salt gives his salespeople articles and sales training books to read.   

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Selling Skills … Make Closing A Sale Automatic.”

By Nick Moreno – Sales Trainer & Head Sales Coach

The National Sales Center

There are well-defined moments in the sales process when you absolutely must ask for the order. You can’t afford to have these precious moments slip through your fingers but unfortunately, that’s exactly what happens to too many salespeople. I have some advice that will protect you from becoming one of those salespeople. The key is to make closing automatic and you do that by knowing exactly when you must ask for an order.

“Always Be Closing”

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After reviewing my application on Monster.com, Banker’s Life and Casualty Company want to interview me for a sales management training position. What exactly is this? Is this management or sales? i have spent the last 5 years working in retail management. What kind of compensation can I expect? I am in the las Vegas area. Thanks!

Business owners and managers know that the key to their business is a very successful sales team. It is very important that the sales staff continue to bring in new customers and keep the ones that you already have coming back again and again.

The techniques that are used by your sales staff is what will determine their success. It is up to you to make sure that they use the latest techniques and that they are fully trained. Training is the answer to make sure that your sales staff gets the best information about these techniques.

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The Importance of Sales Training

If you own or run a large company you will want to have the most effective sales force that you can put together. The best way to achieve a great sales force is to train your salespeople in all of the methods of great sales techniques.

Because of the size and importance of your sales staff you might consider hiring an outside sales training company to conduct the training. When you hire the company you should find out the methods and types of sales training they teach. Find out if they teach online sales.

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The Paradox of Sales Training©

The Paradox of Sales Training©

As you know a paradox is a “statement that seems to conflict with common sense… but nevertheless is true.” (Webster’s II New Riverside Dictionary)

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