Imagine a new salesperson, selling door to door in 45-degree heat. It’s the first day – who has received zero training. How do they prospect? Chris Beall, a Sales enablement leader, faced this challenge when he started his career nearly 40 years ago. In just two weeks, he went from a ranked rookie to a…
What is the most important thing for a salesperson to do in the last weekend of the year? If you are not doing the last weekend dash – and have achieved your numbers OR don’t see any chance of meeting your numbers – now is the time to meditate. Meditate – literally – to release…
Did you think quota crushers, hunters and lone wolves make great salespersons? Guess what – radically different skills are in order! Technologists, delivery experience, highly analytical, problem solvers and storytellers are as important as ever. Graham Hawkins, blogging on a Salesforce state of sales research identifies the following skills as most important:1) Teachers – ability…
Do you know what is the biggest timewaster for salespersons? What can you do to overcome it?Endless prospecting? Nope.Perhaps it is the excruciating ‘deal closure’ chase or customers who love making you go round-and-round? Try again!No – it isn’t even updating your CRM! (although this comes close to the biggest) The biggest contributor towards wasted…
Salespersons are always taught to accelerate and maximize opportunities. Does it ever make sense to slow down, take a step back and drop opportunities?In some exceptional circumstances, the answer could be – YES.However, there must be a concrete reason for this. Here’s when you can consider dropping opportunities: 1. It shouldn’t be simply because you…