Are You Catching These Prospect Warning Signs May 23rd, 2012

“Yikes,” I exclaimed as a godawful screeching noise filled the car. We were driving downhill on a narrow twisting road in Escalante National Park enjoying the surreal landscape. It was the first day of our long drive home.
Warning Signs
“It’s the brakes,” my husband said calmly. Instantaneously, my eyes widened and my [...]

5 Ways to Earn a Prospect’s Trust May 23rd, 2012

Earning a prospect’s or customer’s respect is something that top sales people consistently manage to achieve. But earning that respect can be difficult and is difficult for many sales people.
However, when you achieve that goal, the likelihood of capturing a sale from that prospect increases substantially.
Here are 5 ways you can earn a prospect’s respect [...]

Cold Calling is Fun! May 23rd, 2012

Fun Cold Calling
Don’t worry – I haven’t lost my mind. (Yet.) Cold calling isn’t fun. You know it and I know it. So why did I say that?
Because I can remember countless times when I heard someone say, “Cold calling is fun!”
In fact, I even did it once. It’s true. Early on in my sales [...]

Put an End to Sales Prospecting Procrastination : Part 2 March 7th, 2012

In our last article, we talked about why we avoid certain sales activities even though they’re essential for success. We then unwrapped prospecting, probably the most common activity sellers avoid.
Today let’s examine why we avoid proposal follow-up and account management, and talk about strategies to avoid these.
Proposal Follow-up – It’s not [...]

10 Reasons Not To Stage Your Home February 27th, 2012

1.  We want to test the market for 90 days. And on the 91st day?  Price reduction–and 90 days worth of potential buyers who have already eliminated your property.
2. It costs too much money. I have never seen a home where the staging costs would have exceeded the first price reduction.  [...]

No One Makes Excuses When Winning February 27th, 2012

When a sales team (or salesperson) is making quota, you don’t hear excuses like:

“Cold calling doesn’t work”
“Prospects don’t respond to voicemails”
“Gatekeepers won’t let me speak to the decision maker”
“No one has any money right now. Budgets are frozen”
“Our pricing is too high / our competitors pricing is better”
“The leads are old and have been called [...]

Doing Business or Doing Business Now February 27th, 2012

Have you ever known anyone to simply wake up one morning, grab a cup of coffee and decide, “Today I am going to go spend $50,000 on a car, boat, stock, trip or home…”? No one in their right mind makes high value purchases like these spontaneously. They spend time researching [...]

Referrals: How to Get Them and Keep Them Coming February 22nd, 2012

As business owners, we love referrals from our happy customers. They typically produce the best prospects because a recommendation from a customer provides credibility and reduces doubt in the prospects mind. But do you actively seek them out or simply cross your fingers and hope they come?
Customers who love what you [...]

3 Reasons Prospects Ignore Your Emails February 20th, 2012

In a perfect world, every email we send to a potential client would be read and responded to right away. Unfortunately, many of our prospects are too busy to even look at all the messages they receive, much less act on them.
By avoiding the most common mistakes other people make, savvy [...]

Relationship Selling: Don’t Propose Marriage on the First Date!!! February 15th, 2012

Yesterday, I said “You have to sell first – prove yourself first – before you can hope to develop a relationship. Leading with the notion that you can build any sort of relationship from the outset, is hopelessly out of touch – but that is precisely what around 90% [...]

4 Ways to Sell When You’re Not The Lowest Price? February 13th, 2012

How Can You Sell When You’re Not The Lowest Price? I wish I had a dollar for every time I was asked that question in a sales training session. It’s certainly one of the most common questions I hear coming from professional salespeople – and their bosses. There are a variety of [...]

Is Your Inside Sales Team Making Quota? February 10th, 2012

If Not, Keep Reading…
Brace yourself. I’m going to share with you a shocking truth:
Most B2B inside sales reps are lacking the basic skills to sell by phone.
Sure, they may know how to sell when the calls are flooding in. But selling in today’s B2B environment requires a different set of phone skills that [...]

5 Leadership Actions to Kick Start a New Year January 24th, 2012

The beginning of the year is a typical time to read these types of suggestions. In many ways we ascribe a special significance to the beginning of the year as a time to proactively do things to improve our future. These actions are just as relevant whenever you may be reading [...]

How Small Adjustments Can Deliver Big Results in 2012 January 24th, 2012

Sales Question:
“Every year I set lofty sales goals for myself and always seem to fizzle out… What am I doing wrong?”
Answer:
Goal setting has a lot of moving parts and even with the best-laid plans, you can still come up short. And when we set big goals and start failing at them, motivation [...]

Negative Assumptions Before Your Calls Usually Come True January 12th, 2012

I’ve been broke before. (Actually, broke was my next goal, up from negative net worth.)
I regularly give workshops to groups ranging from ten people, to a couple thousand.
I’ve risked hundreds of thousands of dollars–of my own money–on business decisions.
But none of that is as nerve-wracking as when my daughter is on the pitcher’s [...]

Sales Confidence Need a Boost? December 14th, 2011

Sales Question:
“My sales confidence is at an All TIME LOW… Everything my sales manager has to say, I’ve heard before and nothing seems to help. Has this ever happened to you and what did you do to get out of it?”
ANSWER:
Yes, I’ve been in that exact situation before.
To boot, this time of year brings [...]

Best Voicmail Tips When Using a Powerdialer December 5th, 2011

Among salespeople who make prospecting calls, there’s a hot debate about whether or not you should leave a voicemail message.
I’m of the opinion that you definitely should – but only once every three days.
For a voicemail to have any impact, however, you have to avoid the common blunders… and many of them are easy to [...]

How to be Successful Making Sales Calls November 19th, 2011

8 Tips for a Successful Sales Call
Learn the vital telephone skills every salesperson needs to avoid rejection.
Too many people in business look at the telephone as an anchor–that’s how they feel about lifting it when they have to make outgoing calls to potential clients. For some, you’d think it was covered with spiders or that [...]

Allstate Agency Marketing Dialer October 18th, 2011

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SalesDialers.com is the leading dialer company for Allstate agent their market. We are an A rated BBB company based in Georgia with offices in Dallas. SalesDialers.com is entrenched in the NE, South, and South [...]

New Features Released: Real Time Leads Alerts and MORE! September 21st, 2011

Now, with your real time leads:

They are listed in a popup window
The alerts can be viewed in a separate page
You can “click-to-call” your real time leads

Other features that you will definitely enjoy are:

The ability to add a [...]

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