The Art of Shutting Up
If you’re telling, you ain’t selling. A vital skill for a salesperson to master is the art of being quiet and listening. While it may seem easy, it can be…
If you’re telling, you ain’t selling. A vital skill for a salesperson to master is the art of being quiet and listening. While it may seem easy, it can be…
It’s easy for us to fall into ruts in our thinking. Especially when money is at stake, it can be hard to acknowledge that our way of doing things is…
Good salespeople need to balance the goal to close a sale with an approach to the sales process that does not come across as pushy or manipulative. One of the…
When you start a company, there are a few options you can take. You could be a standard company with no specific goal or code, you could be an ethical…
Lately I believe that in class we have had quite the emphasis on how to ask the right questions, how to phrase them to get what you want, and when…
Many salespeople are petrified of mentioning budget when trying to make a sale. Some salespeople will go through an entire sale, having not discussed budget at all. Discussing budget is…
This semester, we have been talking about what sales is all about, some sales techniques, and how to be a good salesman. However, we never talked about reasons to go…
Understanding the pain points of your customer is a crucial component of sales. How can you discover this if your company does online inside sales? One of the best ways…
Surprises can be fun. As a child, you probably looked forward to your birthday with great anticipation. If you’ve ever had a birthday or Christmas present spoiled beforehand, you know…
Selling yourself is hard, especially when you are in a position where people already have presumptions about you. Those in sales face this every day by being ridiculed as “sleazy”…