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NEW DATE RELEASED: The Sales Improvement Workshop – Sheffield

Hit the link to reserve your seat – I’ll be there – save me a seat

Nothing wounds me more than seeing sales people not being rewarded for the hard work they put in.

But the sad news is, sales people don’t get rewarded based on effort.

They get rewarded based on results!

If you’re in sales you learn that early on…results are the only thing that matter.

That’s why The Sales Improvement Workshop is designed to get sales people operating so that 90% of what they do and where they spend their sales time has a BIG and POSITIVE impact on sales results.

The Sales Improvement Workshop is suitable for new and experienced sales people, Telesales, Field Sales, Lead Generators and Appointment Setters, Direct Sales and Sales Leaders, Sales Coaches, Sales Trainers and Owner/Managers

During The Sales Improvement Workshop, you’ll discover how to:

  • Quickly engage with cold prospects so that you get that all important first meeting, so no more empty sales diaries!
  • Fill the sales pipeline with high quality sales prospects that are ready to convert
  • Maintain consistently high billing
  • Work strategically to improve your sales performance
  • Build curiosity and high level engagement with your prospect
  • Learn the fundamentals of Sales Influence and Persuasion
  • Create a high level of value for the prospect
  • Turn red hot leads into raving customers
  • Diminish the impact of the competition
  • Minimise the need to discount, maximising your prices and your profits
  • Structure your sales presentation so people want to buy from you
  • Build a predictable sales and business development pipeline to give you the sales results you want when you want them

The Sales Improvement Workshop is designed to realign your thinking towards results.

You’ll get great clarity on where you should spend your time and what you should spend your time doing, as well as giving you 100’s of insights that will help you get better results, higher conversions, higher profits and bigger commission cheques.

Fast paced, highly interactive, skills and insights you can use immediately as well as a day where you think about your sales performance, your sales goals and the easiest and simplest way for you to achieve them.

Plus – FREE GIFT – each attendee enters a draw on the day for a chance to win 6 weeks free sales coaching

Plus – if you’ve not got at least a few great insights on the day – you can get a full money back refund. No questions asked.

So: what are you waiting for – hit the link and reserve your seat – The Sales Improvement Workshop

 

Are You Really Leaving That Much of YOUR MONEY on the Buyer’s Table?

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Surely not?

Tell me you’re not still discounting to win business?

And you’re not still price matching, charging what your competitor’s charge?

Tell me you’re not…please?

Look at it this way – whilst you’re directly competing with the rest of the providers in your market, your profits, your prices and your turnover will be capped.

Totally 100% capped.

Totally out of your control.

If you want to escape that profitless prison you can…easy as.

You make the decision to be profitably different.

So different that the prospects and the buyers see such value in what you offer that you cease to have ANY competitors.

Your choice:

Check this out for more information, just hit the link here to find out how to STOP LEAVING YOUR MONEY on the buyer’s table.

If you want to see how this worked for three companies – all working in price driven, highly competitive, discount based industries – check this link below and see how they did it…

How they increased prices, profits, AND close rates…just by changing how they thought about the buyer, how they thought about their industry, their business and their place in the buyer’s mind.

Here’s the link – How Have Other Businesses Achieved Bigger Better Sales Results

If they can do it, you can too – just hit the link above.

Happy Selling!

P.S. And if you’re looking for regular sales and business development insights straight to your inbox – here’s a gift for you – just hit the link below:

FREE GIFT 

 

Are You a Sales Stalker…Do You Call to ‘Just Touch Base’?

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Are You A Sales Stalker?

Sales Statistics – How Many Times Should a Sales Person Chase a Prospect?

I saw this image posted on the Institute of Sales and Marketing Management (ISMM) Facebook page last week – and although I’ve seen these figures before, they never cease to amaze me.

However, I don’t doubt they are true.

So how are you going to make these stats work for you?

Rule number 1:  make sure that every single one of your chase calls or follow up calls does not consist of the old chestnut ‘are you any nearer to signing the contract yes?’. Yes, tough to believe, but you would be surprised how many people are guilty of this. Even worse, ‘just touching base’

We all know that nothing is guaranteed to get the sales person on the ‘blocked call’ list faster than that sort of dogged and unimaginative pursuit.

So – what do you do?

Let’s imagine that you have to take your sales prospect through 12 contacts – how might you structure those contacts? Here are random examples of how you can easily achieve your 12 contacts without too much efforts.

BUT before you go galloping off to get all of these activities scheduled with your outstanding prospects – let me throw a few warnings your way:

  • Not all prospects are worth chasing!
  • Not all prospects have sufficient value or margin to allow you to chase in a highly sophisticated or time consuming way – use your time cautiously.
  • Not all prospects are worth chasing equally.
  • No prospect that wants to do business with you will be waiting for you to call them – they will call you.

If your calls aren’t returned, emails not responded to, it doesn’t always mean the prospect doesn’t want to do business with you. It may well mean that they don’t want to do business with you NOW. Sometimes it means you have been binned, so, continuing to make contact (or trying to) will waste your time but can’t harm the relationship any further…and you never know.

So 14 Contact Points to adopt with your sales prospects that avoid the ‘have you signed the contract yet’ chaser.

  1. Be Social – Invite them to lunch – everyone needs to eat.
  2. Be of Value – Find out who they would like introductions to, their ideal referrers, their ideal prospects, ideal clients – and make the introduction. You can make the introduction via email or face to face.
  3. Flag – Send then a white paper/article/news story that will be of interest to them.
  4. Educate – Share your insights – as with any conversation – your thinking will evolve as the relationship progresses and you get more information. You might start your conversation off with something along the lines of ‘ I’ve been thinking about your plan to use our system/product to achieve a higher ROI, I’ve just seen it used in X company and they have an interesting take that you could use in your business to really accelerate results….can we have a chat about that, is now good or shall we slot a time in the diary?’
  5. Re-enforce your message – Send them a testimonial from a current client who has used your product/service – with a very brief overview of how they benefited – make it relevant
  6. Group Social – invite them to one of your business events, football, concert, races, early bar somewhere nice.
  7. Inclusion – Include them on the circulation list for the company newsletter
  8. Build Links with their network – Call then to ask for referrals, once they have referred you to colleagues and contacts, it will be tough for them to go and buy elsewhere
  9. Part of the family – Ask them to speak with some of your existing customers/clients
  10. Build Links with your network – take your MD, Head of Ops, Implementation, Customer Service Manager in to see them, just on a get to know basis, over a coffee, sandwich at lunch
  11. Inclusion – Invite them to one of your user/buyer focus groups
  12. Corporate Gift – USB/Pen/mouse pad/desk pad – all very cheap and they keep your name in front of them
  13. Hobbies – what hobbies do you share, find out and/share sites, newsletters
  14. And finally…don’t forget to call just to ‘Just to Touch Base’…if you really really have to!

If you want to be accelerate your sales performance, build a solid and stable sales pipeline, increase conversion rate, increase sales turnover and margins – call me

Alternatively – join us on our next Sales Improvement Workshop 

So confident am I that I can turn your sales performance on its head – you get a full money back guarantee – come on, join us and see what you can really achieve.

Carol – carol@mortonkyle.com – 0779 002 1885

Only 4 Places Left – Don’t Miss This Chance to Build Your Business.

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Success brings its own momentum.

This is never truer than in a sales environment – you start seeing  some great results as you make small changes in your business. and after a few days you can’t wait to see what else can happen.

We all know that it’s easier to find 100 things that will each give a 1% improvement in the business than it is to find 1 thing that makes 100% difference, but my aim in working with you is to find those  3 or 4 things that if you do them consistently will give you a major launch pad to help you propel your business into high level growth.

The Sales and Business Development Boot Camp for Business Owner Managers is not a pedestrian stroll through ‘how to increase your sales’.

Not at all. It’s a launch pad, rocket-propelled to get you into the frame of mind to change how you sell, how you position, how you propose and how you price your product or service to your ideal prospect base.

Combining 121 coaching, agreeing outcomes and milestones, accompanied sales presentations, practical strategy, pricing, creating compelling sales propositions and building solid sales pipelines – all contacted in the Sales and Business Development Boot Camp for Business Owner Managers

And you are help accountable for some pretty tough targets.

Think you are up to it?

Want to change your business fortunes in the next three months?

If you need some more details just click here to find out how you can get one of the 3 remaining spaces.

Call for a confidential chat, not all businesses or business owner managers will benefit from this program, so we need to find out if you and your business can gain benefit from joining…and remember – a full money back guarantee if you don’t get the results you deserve.

Contact me on 0779 002 1885 or carol@mortonkyle.com before 3 pm on Friday 28th February 2014.

Here’s what some of my past clients have had to say about working with us:

Director – National Recruitment Company

We hired Carol to effectively remove an impasse to growth in The Interim Register. The business had reached a ceiling in terms of sales and we needed an expert third-party opinion to help us look at the business from a new angle to regain momentum. Carol’s core ideas formed the basis of subsequent restructuring which has been a great success. I would definitely recommend Carol!

CEO – BPO

Carol is the most dynamic and energetic Consultant I have ever worked with.
She has helped me re-shape our entire sales process which resulted in a 50% leap in profits!
Carol has the flair and imagination to add measurable value to any business.
I look forward to working with her until the day she retires!

Director – Consultancy Firm

Before I met Carol, my business was doing well but it was based on referrals from my network. My business is quite specialist in approach and offering, and some of the referrals I was receiving were not really the ideal size of clients I wanted to work with.

I have some great clients, but I wanted to work with some larger and specific organisations. I spent a day with Carol, and then benefitted from some crucial follow-up coaching from her and now I am confident directly approaching the businesses I want to help, and it is working!

Director – BPO

I’ve worked with Carol in three different areas – I’ve been a client, worked with her as a colleague and been delivered training from her. As a client I bought what she was selling; as a colleague I enjoyed her professionalism; as a trainee I learnt some good stuff from her. She is committed, focussed, tenacious and driven to succeed. She is also very straightforward and doesn’t waste words – you will know where you stand with her and her with you – important if time is money!

Director – Print Company

Carol has worked alongside me for six months and is still ongoing. If you want to increase your company sales, move processes forward and bring a new lease of life into your company, you need to employ Carol at Morton Kyle.

Director – Consultancy Firm

She is a pleasure to work with as she is always direct, focused and has the ability to see the big picture, whilst still delivering at the tactical level which is a significant benefit when achieving complex business goals. She is a recognised problem solver and respected by peers, management and board members alike. I would strongly recommend her as an asset to any organization.

Director – Insolvency Practitioners

Carol has worked with our company for a number of years, assisting us in our company growth.

Her role has covered many aspects of our business and sales development, and she consistently delivers more than is asked of her.
She is:
An exceptional listener – she has guided my thinking through the challenges I and my business face on an ongoing basis
Proactive in opening doors and spotting commercial opportunities on our behalf
Direct and to the point when delivering what needs to be done
Great sales focus – 1 days work led to three business opportunities, one of which allowed us to expand our business considerably
Helps us to distinguish between the urgent and the important
Valuable sounding board on sales, marketing, staff targeting, presentations and general business approaches
Achieves a great deal in a very short space of time
Always looks for the easy wins

Director – Civil Engineering Firm

“The sales training with Morton Kyle has been one of the most useful courses we have done. Having no experience of sales previously, we left the training with the confidence as well as the tools with which to become effective sales people. Our success rate improved after the training and enabled the company to move forward in a way that wouldn’t have otherwise been possible.”

Carol Griffiths – Director and Lead Consultant.

Morton Kyle Limited 

Fastest Way to Increase Close Rates – Increase Prices

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A brief case study :  My client company had a sales team selling a product X, their only product. Massively undersold in terms of business proposition, sectors, ability to demonstrate value and benefit, plus no use of ROI comparisons during the presentations.

Having addressed all of the above – the average order value is now 4 x what it was for identical product X. Plus the close rate is double what it was.

And the price and the rates are increasing steadily, and will continue to do so.

Pure Luck? Not a chance.

Biggest influences in bringing about the positive change:

  • Changing market direction – decision maker level, sector, sales criteria
  • Creating and demonstrating value at all stages of the sales process – heavy ROI biased
  • Reporting – revising and updating the reporting for meaningful management information

The challenges for this organisation were huge. But, if they can do it – so can you.

Key Lessons:

  • The price charged has to be commensurate with the value delivered
  • Too low a price cheapens the product/service
  • Too low a price ruins any chance of creating urgency
  • Pricing it to close on the day is stupid (harsh but true)
  • Thinking that a delay in response from the buyer is a reason to start a price negotiation prematurely is also wrong
  • The higher up the company organisational chart your decision maker is – the more valuable their time is, the more valuable any solution that saves them time is – your charging should reflect this
  • The price should be a hot button to the buyer – and that’s fine because you will have already demonstrated value
  • Your price should be a differentiator – a positive differentiator
  • Your price should allow you another opportunity to demonstrate value.

To find out more about how you can get results like this in your organisation, call us for a chat

Carol Griffiths (Director and Lead Consultant) 0779 002 1885, carol@mortonkyle.com

Morton Kyle Limited

 

 

 

 

2014 – Feast or Famine?

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Join is on our Sales and Business Development Boot Camp for Business Owner Managers and you can enjoy the feast and banish the famine.

If the last few years taught us anything, they taught us the absolute truth in that

Turnover is Vanity, Profit is Sanity, But Cash is King

What will 2014 teach you?

  • How to engage with your ideal prospects in such a way that they want to do business with you?
  • How to tweak just a few key areas of your business to dramatically increase your results?
  • How to build solid prospect pipelines that convert to profitable sales opportunities?

The key reasons why Business Owner Managers don’t get the sales results they want, need or deserve:

  • Poor pricing strategies – buying the business – over promising
  • Ineffectual business process means working hard but not working smart
  • Lack of focus and being able to distinguish between the urgent and important
  • Inability to convey the real business differentiators to prospective buyers

Most Business Owner Managers know what they need to do – unfortunately no-one gets paid to know stuff, they get paid for what they do.

Join us on the next Sales and Business Development Boot Camp and I will make sure you don’t make these mistakes, and you know what – you even get a money back guarantee. Can’t say fairer than that. I have faith in you.

For more details and to see if you qualify – contact:

Carol Griffiths – Director and Lead Consultant

Morton Kyle Limited

carol@mortonkyle.com

0779 002 1885

4 Places Left – Sales and Business Development Boot Camp – Sheffield

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When you join my Sales and Business Development Boot Camp (starting in Sheffield in March) you find out how I have worked with my clients to:

  • Increase leads generated by over 30% in less than 2 weeks
  • Increase their prices by a multiple of 4 AND increased close rates at the same time
  • Used price increases to strategically redefine the client’s business so that they attracted high value clients, bigger names, spending more
  • Create accurate and robust sales pipelines

And, my promise is that I will recreate this success with you and your business, to find out more click here to find out how you can change 2014 before it’s too late. Plus, you get a full money back guarantee if you don’t get the results you work for.

Only 4 places left – the Boot Camp closes at 3 pm on Friday 28th February.

Almost every Business Owner Manager I have the pleasure of meeting knows exactly why their clients should use their products and services; and given an audience and a chance to have a chat, I am totally sure that many Business Owner Managers could sign up every person they sat in front of or interacted with.

The art of sales and business development is not a black art. Sales and business development is part art, part science and the key skills inherent in business growth can be taught, practised and mastered.

Speaking with many Business Owners and Managers, there are a few key issues prevent their passion translating into clients and then into pounds, namely:

  • Systematic and regular exposure and proximity to prospective potential clients
  • Clear focus on pricing and creating unique value in the competitor arena
  • Time to do what they perceive is a huge task – when really it’s a series of small tweaks
  • Ridding themselves of confusion about how to structure their proposition to their ideal prospect list
  • Clarity of the message and how it’s translated

So – how to create a workable business growth plan, how to skill up sufficiently to execute the plan and how to make time to make sure the plan works and the business grows are the key foundations of the Sales and Business Development Boot Camp for Business Owner Managers – there are three slots left.

See here for more details 

If you want to make sure you make the next three months a success, start welcoming clients to your business and gain clarity about how you approach your ideal prospect and client list then contact us for more details.

We are so confident that this program will get you where you want to be that we are offering a full money back refund if you don’t get the results we plan to.

Carol Griffiths – Director and Lead Consultant

Morton Kyle Limited

carol@mortonkyle.com

0779 002 1885

Being Brilliant at the Sales Basics

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Being Brilliant at the Sales Basics

Sheffield 12th/13th March 2014

Course Details

Designed for sales staff who want to:

  • Increase order values
  • Improve margins
  • Sell on value not discounted prices
  • Shorten sales cycles
  • Increase sales conversion rates
  • Handle objections
  • Create value based relationships with sales prospects based on demonstrable ROI
  • Create solid sales pipelines
  • Build accurate sales forecasts

Further detail on this course can be found by clicking here

For more details – use the form below to request an agenda, alternatively contact Carol on 0779 002 1885 or email carol@mortonkyle.com

Fee:

£1,395 per attendee plus VAT (1 Aug 2013)

  • Including lunch and workbooks on both days
  • Psychometric test
  • Pre course attendance evaluation
  • Two one to one follow up sessions post attendance
  • Unlimited telephone support
  • The opportunity to attend the course again as a refresher at no extra cost
  • 30 day full refund – money back guarantee

Testimonials from past attendees:

Senior Manager/Divisional Head – Business Advisory Organisation

Carol got to know Medilink well and her understanding of the company allowed her to provide our team with excellent training and advice.
Her application of business expertise, twinned with in depth research yielded a tailored training package for the business

Director – Civil Engineering Firm

“The sales training with Morton Kyle has been one of the most useful courses we have done. Having no experience of sales previously, we left the training with the confidence as well as the tools with which to become effective sales people. Our success rate improved after the training and enabled the company to move forward in a way that wouldn’t have otherwise been possible.”

Sales and Business Development Boot Camp for Business Owner Managers

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Having worked with a number of Business Owner Managers over the last 10 years I know that you love doing what you do (most of the time)

However, sales, marketing, business development and finding new customer are the things that often gets pushed to the bottom of your to do list.

This is why I have created the Sale and Business Development Boot Camp for Owner Managers.

The Boot Camp will be relevant for you, as a Business Owner Manager if you:

  • Are in charge of growing your business
  • Have a wish list full of prospective clients that you still haven’t approached
  • Struggle with how to make sales approaches to key business targets
  • Fail to see how you could knock their current supplier out of the running
  • Are pricing too cheaply to win work
  • Suffer from feast or famine
  • Need a second opinion on how to respond to quotations
  • Need and impartial view on the clients you have – who is costing you more to serve than you are earning – and what to do about them
  • Want to start working with more loyal and valuable clients who see value in your offering and are prepared to pay the price you ask
  • Lack the motivation and/or discipline to be proactive in your sales and business development efforts

Would you work better if you have someone guiding and supporting you as you open up new markets and bring new clients on board?

If you can identify with any of the above and you want to make the next three months ground breaking in terms of adding valuable new clients to your business then contact us now for a confidential chat.

This Boot Camp is specifically designed for Business Owner Managers but it may not suit everyone, so providing we can establish a good fit, then we can start working immediately.

To learn more about the Boot Camp for Business Owner Managers – our three-month promise and out full money back guarantee – then check out our details here.

For more information and an informal chat, call Carol on 0779 002 1885 or email carol@mortonkyle.com. There is more information on the range of services offered – visit www.mortonkyle.com

Sales Skills for Non-Sales Staff

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We are proud to launch our new training course in Sheffield – Sales Skills for Non- Sales Staff.

Your staff are the face of the business, responsible for building your brand, often way before and many years after the sales team have done their job.

This course will be relevant to anyone in a customer facing role – telephone or face to face, maybe warehouse staff, receptionists, help desk, customer service, logistics, drivers or operational support staff.

The skills associated with sales, influencing and persuasion are vital to the smooth running of any business, for dealing with both internal and external clients and driving the correct behaviours and outcomes, this course will deliver all the skills needed by non-sales staff to ensure all of your customer interfaces are professional and seamless.

For more details – click here