To Sell Greatly, a salesperson has to be relationship first. And the most important skill in building strong, enduring relationships is the ability to be a good listener. Ironically, most of us are terrible listeners. It’s like we completely understand the importance of listening well, but we just can’t bring ...
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We've all heard, and maybe experienced, the Millennials' challenge with face-to-face, interpersonal communication. Sure they can text and converse on social media but "they don't answer their phones" and "they can't hold a conversation in person." Which begs the question, how will their style of communication hold up in the ...
Every year the Content Marketing Institute publishes a seminal report on the state of the Content Marketing Industry. This year, we thought we’d share it but through the lens of sales prospecting and using content to Sell Greatly. Content Marketing Still Focused on The Top of The Funnel. Few content ...
Today's post is inspired by the KSHMR, Nevve song Do Bad Well. It got me to thinking about how salespeople approach sales training today. So often, instead of trying to learn how to do good, the training just reinforces how to do bad well. Stick with me here... it will ...
Yesterday morning I had the pleasure of spending an hour with a group of men discussing gratitude — its role in our lives, how we should be teaching it to our children, its role in our religion (it was a prayer group) — and that got me to thinking about ...
Let's face it. Every second you spend sales prospecting that doesn't result in a sale or the creation of a long-term Social Agent relationship is basically wasted time. So today, let's talk about the four things you can do immediately to improve your sales prospecting success rate. Never Talk To ...
What Are The Advantages of Face-to-Face Meetings? While everyone loves the ability of technology to scale our sales efforts, save time and my personal favorite, call on sales prospects all around the globe while sleeping in my own bed each night, the simple truth is, nothing closes a deal like ...
Prince wasn't just a great singer, he was also a great sales prospecting philosopher. Don't believe me? Let's look at two of his songs and how he contrasts the painful traditional ad agency business development process vs a painless prospecting process preferred by agencies like Converse Digital. Traditional RFP Based ...
Getting and maintaining a consumers’ or sales prospects’ attention. It’s the single hardest and most important step in any sales process. So how, in a digitally centric, content overload world do you actually do it? Getting A Sales Prospect’s Attention People will take interesting calls. – David Droga This was ...
Recently during the Q&A after my Turning Conversations Into Customers webinar, one of the attendees asked, "Do you have any suggestions for quickly creating empathy with sales prospects?" I didn't have a good, quick answer. So today, I'm answering her question and hoping that you too find some value here ...
I recently found some sales training advice from a "world class sales trainer." Honestly, I don't even know where to start other than to say, please in the name of all that is holy, never teach these things during your sales training. Only Focus On The GREAT Prospects According to ...
Do you hate sales prospecting? Making cold calls. Sending cold emails. Interrupting folks in their social media inboxes? All in the name of effective sales prospecting... because you know... it's a numbers game. If you're ready to be done with that approach... to find a better way to prospect for ...