I’ve been getting lots of email from you lately. And one thing that I hear often is that you need more sales leads.
In order to generate sales leads, you need three things:
A written profile of your target prospect,
A list of suspects containing potential prospects,
A method of reaching your sales prospects.
In this article, I am going [...]
Now you have a list with lots of clients interested in your coaching niche and you are ready to place the calls. How can you make sure you will be effective?
To help you having productive calls, we’ve gathered some practical tips from other coaches based on their experience.
Tip 1: Define your objective for every call. Ask [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
SalesDialers.com is the perfect dialer for real estate agents. With our dialer you have the ability to dial out to 4 times as many people as opposed to just manually dialing. Our extensive email capabilities will let you send out email blast or set up drip emails so that you are constantly in contact with [...]
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% [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
While experience can be a great teacher, learning from others’ experiences–successes and failures–can save you time, money and a lot of frustration. So when it comes to growing your small business, here are some mistakes you want to avoid or fix.
Mistake No. 1: I Can Do It On My Own
Most of [...]
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 [...]
"Have over $20K hitting the books with about 12 hours logged in this week. If anyone else has a way to make over $4K in 12 hours call me and let me know."
— John H. NYC