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Why Balance Risk, Price and Value in Your Next Sales Demo

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How to Balance Risk, Price and Value in Your Next Sales Demo

How to Balance Risk, Price and Value in Your Next Sales Demo

Price, Risk, Value….are you balancing all three for your buyers?

Being unable to unpack and demonstrate risk and value will mean you’ll most likely need to drop your price….primarily to balance what the buyer will perceive as higher than actual risk and lower than imagined value.

It doesn’t have to be that way…

You and I always imagine things are worse than they actually are.

Your buyers will do the same when reviewing your solutions and products…

Don’t let the buyer write your sales demo for you.

Make sure you address their worse fears.

Do that and the price comes a distant third on their list of needs to be satisfied.

For more information – hit the link – Show me how to balance risk, price and value in my next sales demo

http://www.mortonkyle.com

Do You Remember How To Sell?

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Sales Training Sheffield

Habit Beats Knowledge

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I spent most of last month doing sales audits…which is great.

Firstly, because I love sales audits and secondly, because clients get some really profitable, quick and easy wins.

But that aside, I’m always more than a little conscious that some of the time I’m having to bite my tongue.

I’m keeping my lips firmly sealed because I don’t want to be accused of being TOO salesy, too aggressive, too over the top, just, well, too much.

But this is my blog so I can pretty much post what I want…so here goes…the question I have to hold back on tooooo many occasions is this

Do you remember how to sell?

Shocking right?

I’m sat in the middle of sales teams, full sales metrics in front of me and I’m wondering why the sales manager, the sales director and the CEO need me to tell them what’s happening and what needs to happen.

Here’s what I’ve noticed over the last 12 yrs of doing sales audits:

What I think is obvious is not obvious to many of the sales guys that clock in every day…

BUT the most important thing I’ve realised is that HABIT will trump KNOWLEDGE every single time.

Every time.

Without fail.

And that’s where the rot sets in.

People get into the habit of doing what they like doing, what they feel like doing, what they can get away with doing, what they enjoy doing, what keeps them busy, what keeps them off the manager’s radar…

Sometimes the sales team or the business don’t need new knowledge, new skills or even new insights…that’s not appropriate in many cases…instead, it’s better I help them build better, more valuable, more rewarding and more results orientated habits.

Maybe we all need to take a look at some of our habits on a more regular basis…

Happy Selling

Carol

P.S. If you want to adopt a great habit for yourself, you can hit this link and start today…Start your FREE subscription to the Advanced Business Achiever

P.P.S. and if you feel you need a thorough sales refresher to refine, reprogram and reboot some of your best sales efforts and habits- hit this link – The Sales Improvement Workshop – Just £97 per person, PLUS, you enter a draw for 6 weeks 121 sales coaching…winner drawn on the day.

For further information on what I do – www.mortonkyle.com or email carol@mortonkyle.com or call 0779 002 1885

PLUS – If you want to discuss any aspect of your business and it’s sales performance – just hit this link to register your interest in Funded Sales and Business Development Support

10 Ways to Make Your Sales Numbers

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Sales and Business Development Training Sheffield

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Know your Sales Recipe – from how many cold leads to meetings; meetings to quotes; quotes to close. Without this formula you really are working in the dark
  2. Write down where your last 10 pieces of GREAT business came from – now rinse and repeat. You’ll probably be very surprised at where the great business does come from.
  3. Know who you want to do business with and why – stick to that profile only. Fish in too many weak ponds and you’ll end up with a mess of mediocre prospects and questionable business
  4. Stop chasing BAD business…qualify hard at the start in line with the perfect prospect profile…ditch the rest. Success flows where attention goes!
  5. Make sure you know the decision makers buying process and their selection criteria – save yourself doing tonnes of work for a buyer who’s keeping you around to bounce ideas off
  6. Visit your sales forecast religiously every day – who do you need to check in with, who’s got the sign off meeting today, who’s making the short list today – The Recency Effect…the subtle art of being there without the buyer feeling they’re being stalked!
  7. Be ruthless in managing your sales pipeline – kick out the stationary prospects, re-qualify them and either re-enter them or put them on a sales database to reactivate/keep warm by some other method.
  8. Maximise your client/prospect face time and talk time…if you can’t manage your time you can’t manage anything. Don’t be lulled into thinking you don’t need to sell because you’re on social media and people will find you…that’s the icing on the cake and is nowhere near replacing the cake any time soon (unfortunately)…so get talking!
  9. Admin is something you do outside of core sales time…yeah, suck it up buttercup, winners don’t do their expenses and write proposals when they could be filling the sales pipeline
  10. Have fun, get excited, total immersion in your industry, your buyers industry, be the most knowledgeable person in your industry, be the go to expert, get creative, start mixing things up a bit, get out there, loud and proud…What? You don’t want to do that? Then maybe you need to find a product/company/service you can get that excited about…sales is a transfer of energy, a transfer of confidence, a transfer of faith…if you don’t have it, don’t expect to be able to pass it on…

Happy Selling

If you’re looking for a sales shot – a chance to get refocused on what’s important in helping you smash your sales target, and what the key success activities are in sales – join me…

Hit the link to find out more and book your spot….Show Me.

Plus – join us and enter a draw to win 6 weeks free sales coaching, and if you want to bring 3 people on the course, you’ll only pay for 2!

 

Sales Training – Sheffield

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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