Sunday, September 9, 2012

I do not think the complaints are not necessarily bad

Begin by looking at the positive aspects of the objections likely to see them as challenges. Any seller who wants a job without asking tough questions go to the stadium and sell hotdogs! The point is, without the challenges of sale, for just taking and sales are definitely not!
In terms of personal satisfaction, and a number of objections and faced daily in the market tend to indicate special amount of money and prestige that is assigned to your case. In general, people are rewarded for the amount of hassle that goes with what they are doing. To return to the example of the ball park, known tells us that those who sell hotdogs in ballgames certainly not generate income as well as those who meet regularly at their positions sales objections. The place is financial rather than scale? You will be at the head instead, facing numerous objections throughout the day of the sale, or at the bottom, facing objections or lack of adversity, but without the money?

Must be optimistic when you are facing a difficult question or objection. You should see this objection as an indicator that moves in a kind of direction: either have completed the sell or not to sell. In both cases, you know where you are and what you must do to move forward, and take corrective action, or break a relationship. When prospect expresses concern about some aspects of the product or service, an opportunity presents itself for you to redirect your sales presentation. You now have a chance to get away from these things that are considered undesirable possibility to move towards those things that he wants you to prospect, your company or your product or service. Unless completely objection blow perspective the benefits of your product, you can always save the sale.

Objections also give you the opportunity to hone your sales skills. More successfully faced objections and conquer best advised to become. When you begin to notice patterns in the views and perspectives of objections and the objections of these topics, and will be able to predict almost any kind of objections your prospects will attend. You will learn to ask questions that will help you to expel or remove them. Lead to better knowledge to the knowledge that involves how to deal with objections prospects can lead only to improve your record sales and, consequently, improve your income.

Clearly present objections sellers with obstacles complete transactions, and view these objections difficult issues in a positive light can help you make more sales. The objections can be considered the difficult aspects of the work of your sales and Control objections can lead to improved business performance as well as your income. The objections can also be considered as a guide to steer you in the right direction to make a sale. Finally, these issues and help the seller objections become skilled in dealing with objections. Remember, "Practice makes perfect", and if the invasion was no different objections.

Do not pull on the sales team

Income down. The slowdown in sales. CEO looking for a plan of action that the company is aware not meet analysts' expectations. Focus on sales leader of the organization, and opened the way for sacrificing a scapegoat.
Who should get another ax with missing sales goals of the organization? After all, is not the responsibility of sales and sales leader? The answer may be as easy as memorable as it is clear.

To one degree or another everyone in the organization affects the process of income generation. Strategic plan for the Board and Chief Executive Officer to provide a comprehensive strategy to generate income. Marketing Department provides information critical demographic and psychological customer or client whose sales depend on the industry to develop strategies and arithmetic. Manufacturing, finance, legal, customer service, and other departments or restriction to facilitate the process of income generation, all your own way.

Influence the sales organization in generating revenue for the Foundation is con concentrated in the sales pipeline. Identify sales opportunities in good faith, and manage opportunities in the sales pipeline until they produce revenue, and customer relationship management or customer are the essential functions of sales teams and management sales. Rarely, do not control the sales organization, manufacturing and marketing resources, finance, legal and customer service.

Most companies offer the world show the sales organization "out there" in front of your customers and clients and to the rest of society. Even the marketing, the cousin of turnover is most often cut of the sale, as well as other departments. Group sales lead the charge, the company, and other departments of the bottom support positions, providing support material and immaterial.

Income generation is a cross functional, enterprise-wide process that involves all departments and all employees of the organization. Management and the Board of Directors and the appointment of the company's strategy and everyone in the organization implementing this strategy. We have not seen a situation where the sales organization in a state of chaos while all other sectors and the little buzz or no friction. In the rare cases where failure or malfunction of the institution in the process of income generation lies in the sales organization, should take appropriate business executives, managers and sales professionals and accountability should be required to suffer the consequences. Before pulling sales teams CEO, however, they might want to take a critical look at the process of income generation and how each sector or contribute to undermine the success of the operation. Such as the favorite American psychology, and Dr. Phil, and counseling in each section of the Foundation contributes to one of the business processes of income generation or contaminants.

Do not miss your favorite sport or a concert!

Entertainment and its role in key private life of everyone. Whether it's a football match, music or any other event, it refreshes you and puts you in a state of mind without tension. Although the events there, there are stars, heart, it is desirable, but the availability of tickets for this special event becomes a chore.

Events such as tickets Boston Celtics, New Jersey Nets Tickets, New York Knicks tickets, tickets Philadelphia 76ers, Toronto Raptors tickets, tickets Chicago Bulls, tickets Cleveland Cavaliers, Detroit Pistons Tickets, Indiana Pacers tickets, tickets Milwaukee Bucks are a craze among people belonging to all age groups. What most people are not rushing in that they buy tickets at the last minute. In these cases, we often end up paying more than the actual cost because of the circumstances. This is the time when the demand for goods is much higher than supply, and these manipulators control prices and increase the cost of tickets.

The best thing you should do to avoid such difficult situations to always buy their tickets or passes for your favorite event, and the Atlanta Hawks tickets Charlotte Bobcats Miami Heat tickets, Orlando Magic, Washington Wizards tickets before the event is scheduled. In this way, you can get tickets to the actual cost and the price will be affordable for everyone.

There is a waste of time and less easy way to buy a ticket online private ceremony. There are many sites that deal in the sale and purchase tickets online. All you need is to find a site to sell what you want and then go comparison shopping. With high rates vary from broker to broker my best way to get a good deal for the price comparison between merchants, which can be done by doing a quick search on Google and the results of bets.

Negotiate ticket prices and make a good deal requires the use of an intermediary comparison tool that will display all offers available and the companies that offer them, it is certainly not a new technology and this concept was around for years, and this is the reason why these sites are convenient and easy to use, and even at the last moment ! If you buy concert tickets, sports and show music, or event season (Toronto Raptors tickets, tickets Chicago Bulls, Cleveland Cavaliers tickets, tickets Detroit Pistons, Indiana Pacers Charlotte Bobcats tickets, tickets Miami Heat and Orlando Magic, Washington Wizards tickets) you relax mind Knowing that you can get last minute or sold-out tickets when you need online.

Always make sure that you can contact the company by phone tickets when you need it. If the site does not give a good "contact us" system, beware of them. You can get in a situation where you have paid and got no ticket or tickets are not valid. When buying tickets, it should be assured that if for any reason the event is canceled or through the purchase of a ticket drops, you can have your money. Airline ticket must to advance what their policy is and if they provide the client ensure that when things go wrong.

Do not let your prospects Off Cole hot

Each day, sales, and business is essential. Holds very well lead now in the hands of competitors tomorrow.
This is why I can not stress enough the importance of taking full advantage of your prospects once they get them.

It is not intended prospects sit around hanging on bulletin boards, or placed in a tickler file. And intended to be implemented.

Thought process of the client's presence for a product or service, so they put the word on the street are in the market for a particular product.

If someone in your professional circle gives you a qualified lead, it is very reasonable for customers about it made many people aware of their interest in the product or service. This means that the name is passed and the phone number of a circle around more professional.

Schedule leave that is very important, when you receive the lead and pick up the phone and make contact with that person.

Do not act on a leash, you have two things working against you. One, allowing you to jump on the competition for you. And secondly, you give potential customers the opportunity to ask someone else to provide the product or service they are seeking.

Once worked with a man, when I was in the banking sector. Belongs to the group networks for several years, and when he received an advance of one of its weekly meetings will be in the office, pin lead the evaluation and leave three to five days.

Finally, when it was time to call the name on his head, he always received the same answer. Not inform customers that you are not interested because they worked with someone else.

He hangs up the phone and complain that he has the worst luck when it comes to his son.

I think the message is clear. This is an example of what not to do with your expectations.

Let stand hot lead and cold, you are guaranteed to lose this client.

Keep in mind, when someone offers you in advance that there is likely to give your potential customers feedback. While potential customers that your name, and if it was given the power to you.

I do not think customers will appreciate a phone call three to five days after receiving the information. Even if they are still on the market for your product, you can not be a good start.


Son should be implemented. So the next time you get one, do not hesitate, stop what you are doing, and communicate with this person. Good luck.

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Not your sales training programs focus on issues of business performance? Part 2

In Part 1, we reviewed the steps of detecting performance problems for sales and decide which apply to high priority to pin-point sales training. We have documented for the first time the key issues of sales performance. It (4) the outstanding performance of sales that would bring the proceeds of elevators any team, year in and year out. Namely:
•% quota for commercial
• Average New Hire Ramp to Quota in months
• The sales turnover of staff
• the time required to achieve the result

Following list (4) steps to see if you have problems with sales performance in each individual sales performance silo and if so to what extent. They were:

Step 1: Run the numbers "for any realistic chance ROI
Step 2: run the numbers "to probably improve the" specific "
Step 3: run the numbers "to face reality"
Select the target and training "because it Step 4:

In our first example, we examine the performance of the sales organization Silo »New quota ramp rental identify a problem (1) sales performance and (2) a target value of sales training and (3 ) the formation of a turnover of realistic return on investment.

Take the same sales force and enjoy the process step (4) Look at the rest of the representation of both sales, "sales rate of staff turnover" and "the time it takes to achieve the result" to know that resident X2 ™ system is set up.

Step 1: Run the numbers "for any realistic chance ROI

Our sales force, for example, has 350 sales representatives who are responsible for securing new business each month. They currently turnover of sales of 45%, or 155 representatives in the year. I found in the sales industry, I partner with my clients on average between 30% -70% sales clerk in the year, so that these people are right at the base.
But the "norm" is not necessary to be a "future".

The other important point here. In the field of sales, 95% of sales staff turnover due to low appointment activity 1. And the example of the sales force, and was close to 100%. In other words, if you do not create enough sales appointments each month, whether to go out the door or "door Zahir" for you.
Now, we will launch the numbers to see exactly what they cost them sales and prioritize consider weight training in "pin-point sales performance.

The following cost figures:

• Average Salary: $ 30,000
• recruitment costs: $ 2,000
• Tuition: $ 3,500
• The monthly sales quota: $ 3,500

Ultimately, this team of sales management and face to face looking at a total of $ 4512200 at the door every year, a combination of income cost slope on the front, and the loss of revenues production in the rear end, and wages and benefits, then again the ramp revenue and salary costs of hiring new replacement. It is a vicious circle.
Again this "overhead" number is the sum of the attention getter.
In other words, every seller of the door due to lower setpoint business, costing the company $ 29.300 in lost revenues.

Is the representation of the sales training return legitimate investment opportunity? Well, less need to invest $ 29.300 each vendor training option for addressing the problem of sales performance ... It certainly is not.

Step 2: run the numbers "probably 50% improvement

In this case, I showed the management team return on investment sales they would get through to keep only half of the sales representatives out of the door because of the low game sales activity.
Numbers using my system diagnostics showed their return on investment only $ 2256100 Sales reducing staff turnover due to lower sales activity set 44% to 22%. 77 which prevents sales representatives out of the door, and add to the pool of productivity sale.

Step 3: run the numbers "to examine the reality

Mentioned in Part 1 of "Is your sales training programs solve your sales performance? Ran team sales force performance indicator key sales figures in the X2 system to see 'if and when' there was a leak in the "ship KPIs. discovered and no leaks, but a large outbreak of fire hose."

Two "issues KPI clear. Firstly, on the side took to share new lease seven months when the average sales cycle 17 days? Second, they represented only 3 made new appointments in the week when you need to 6, based on key performance indicators and their further define the number of sales for the next activity.
Thus, it was "a measure of sales activity" set to run at only 50%. And we are determined to impose a longer ramp to quotas.

Then dig a little deeper and we are in the X2 system and emerged a conversation from 6% to the appointment, but he was to hold talks likely to get one of 15 on a new date.

Then we asked the question, "reality." Is it realistic to focus on reducing turnover sales representative due to low business appointment in half, from 44% to 22% of sales training ROI $ 2,256,100 or $ 29.300 per delegate?

We answered "yes" if they are oriented front of their sales process, develop targeted sales appointments. Again, before they should (1) create a standard activity for up to share the list of the various key performance indicators and (2) develop a methodology for prospecting and sales support to spend less time to achieve.

Because most of the sales staff rotation occurs in a new ramp to the silo issue from rent, which is the same pin-point sales training initiative kills two birds with one stone.

And if you add it all (2) "sale training initiatives birds arrive, it refers to the $ 14,532,100 of revenue collection and realistic.

Select the target and training "because it Step 4:

Reduce the turnover of sales due to low sales activity now seems ready deserves. It is a good deal for the sales organization. If we were to measure the results, we will add more revenue may be back to the negotiating table with additional representatives will not go out the door ... At up to $ 29.300 per delegate.

As in Part 1, and our sales and training in this case is to spend less time to get the desired number of sales appointments each week to ensure our success Avg.
Now for the bonus, we'll take a look at our sales performance issue post a silo, "time spent in relation to achieve the result, and see what, if anything, we can be addressed related to our pin-point sales training initiative.

"Time is money." What is your "hourly wage"? If you're a seller W-2 from your rate of $ 100,000 every hour $ 51 per hour. Here's an interesting statistic. My clients spend on average 50% of their time at the end of the process to their own sales, sales prospecting new opportunities to start the sales process. This group introduced me time average sales management 45% of the resident exploration ™ integration.
Here's what he showed.

Sales representatives spend on average 20 hours per week on business development and sales appointment generation. But they are only works 50% of "business barometer" and needed to generate 50% of sales activity together from three new appointments in week 6.
In the course of sales effectiveness exploration rate of 6% (15 to Prospect talks get 1 set), they must spend 33 hours per week for sales prospecting and appointment generation sales. We know that this is not realistic.

But if they set a goal of sales training for the transfer of the conversion ratio is 50%, and it will not only meet the activity set the number of sales, but they provide and 26 hours per week to recover 79% of the time, 33 hours per week 7. And 26 hours multiplied by $ 51 per hour to recover the money $ 1326 "hourly wage", which allows visitors to sales to increase capacity and monitoring of high-value sales opportunities based solutions.

Again with our partners in past sales silos (2) performance problems are determined (1) the problem of sales performance and (2) the goal of sales training worthy and (3) of the training Sales and realistic return on investment.

Ask any CFO what is the first impression when they hear the words "sales training" and can keep coming back "real world" from their vocabulary of "United Nations responsible" and "Nations United measurable. " In other words, they know they lose at least half of the budget dollar sales training, and the problem is that they do not know the half of it.

As a leading sales management, and sales to systematically explore the questions, then run "quantitative" sales performance figures verify the feasibility and merit of return, investing in sales training that differentiates you from the pack. And stand an excellent chance of getting the result you want.

In this case, and give sales reps skills to an appointment one business "up and down" in two interviews allow participants to determine the required amount of appointments to ensure targeted business their monthly income goals. So you will not leave people less, they will make more money and spend less time and recover $ measurable, something that you can put your finger on the ground.

Not your training program sales to respond to the performance of your sales questions? Part 1

Training programs for sale include a variety of things necessary components such as company policies, and securities sales and customer relationship management / sales force automation orientation, business processes and business services, sales training and the features and benefits of products.But when I ask businessmen and sales trainers how to align their current training program sales with their sales performance issues get the appearance of "do not speak English."

Let rated first 'work performance problems. "There is (4) distinct sales performance silos that will affect the overall performance of the sales team, year after year. Namely:

•% of the shares of sales reps
• Average rental slope of new quotas months
• The size of sales staff
• spent more than once achieved

This is a good place to start in determining the type of training to implement sales skills to get the return on investment and measurable. But here is what you apart when you walk up to the access request. Begin with numbers.
This is true. Take silos diagnosis your current sales performance, and one by one.

Let's take a look at a real example revenue performance problem "average share rental slope new. I made recently," sales performance improvement plan "on the Internet to organize the casting sales.
The company has been hiring salespeople 155 each year. The ultimate goal of any new leasing program is training a new sales representative slope quotas. Simply give them everything they need to effectively reach monthly sales targets.

How the company was doing? They get this ultimate goal of sales training program in seven months. So how do we determine whether this is a result of sales performance and training issue? Let's take a look.

Step 1: Run the numbers "for all occasions and realistic ROI

• Each representative was new quotas rent $ final 3500
• sales cycle was 17 days
• Agreement customers average 36 months
• Average revenue "quotas" in the month during ramp of $ 1,300 (this figure reflects the average monthly income for a new employee reached before reaching the implementation of quotas)

Step 2: "Run numbers hypothesis" improvement "specific

In this case, I showed the sales management team that the return on investment will get help only one sales representative to achieve a full quota of sales compared to 6 months 7 months. On the basis of their numbers showed my diagnosis X2 ™ system resident them the return on investment of 79,200 $ trimming only 30 days. They did it only for 155 of the new annual appointments, they might realize $ 12,276,000.
And is brought to their attention. Thus, it is now a performance issue sales tie pin point worthy of sales training? Not quite yet.

Step 3: "run the numbers" to "reality check"

Has identified key performance indicators (KPIs) individual gates that directly affect the outcome of a particular process - the most successful companies - and certainly business services. Then measure the efficiency ratios in line with them.

A key performance indicators is a good example in the sales process, the number of times that provide the first sales appointment to the next stage, both a demonstration, visit the website, or clear the proposal. Last KPI is the number of times you gain a new customer once the first sentence is passed. And when you do acquire a new customer, what is the average revenue to achieve? And how does it take to win a new customer, on average, any sales cycle?
What about the time it takes you to make one new appointment trade, identified by the possibility of "Conversation" sales? And as a byproduct of all this, there is a need for the number of new appointments each week?

We ran these numbers in the X2 ™ system to see the resident 'if and when "there was a leak in the ship's key performance indicators." And here is what we found, and not a leak, but a large pipe "fire beginning.

Originated two "KPI" questions. First, why is the high share of new rental 7 months when the sales cycle takes average 17 days? Second, they developed only three new appointments week when they need to 6, depending on other key performance indicators implications. Thus, "Business Barometer" set sales worked only 50%. Will dictate the long ramp quotas.
They had dug a little deeper in the X2 ™ system resident and conversation jumped 6% in appointments, to make the talks, the probability of getting one of the 15 to a new date.

OK, back to the "reality check". Is it realistic to focus on reducing the slope of the last share of the new 7 months to 6 months to return to the training investment sales of $ 12,276,000, or $ 79.200 per delegate?
You bet it is. These people need to respond to the first end of the sales process, and the target date of sale. To do so, they need to (1) create a standard activity for six months and share (2) develop a methodology for business development and support resident ™ X2 to spend less time to accomplish.
Then they need to contact their sales prospecting "system" in their current sales training program and work in the activity weekly sales target set to ensure a result of monthly income in 6 months.

Step 4: Select the target and "train as they

A sales training ROI goal or 12276000 $ 79,200 $ each representative is definitely worth it. And showed us that the diagnostic system to achieve this goal while making three set additional sales per week per representative, and six more than 3 appointments.

In fact, I lied. X2 resident showed the brighter picture if sales activity were filled with standard set of 6 new appointments in the week. It can support the new hires with a direct marketing system that can help to achieve sales of 6 new appointments in the week, they can actually reduce new hire Ramp to a share of 4 months from the 7 month up to 3 months.
The return on investment is $ 316.800 sales training each representative or a massive $ 49,104,000.

One of the reasons why sales training fails is not selected useful purpose. In this case, our method has identified in the diagnosis one goal is useful for them to form. The same method can be used diagnosis if you have a problem sales performance "unacceptable percentage of salespeople achieve the share of each month.

In Part 2, we'll take a look at the (2) other sales performance issues, and "the rate of sales volume" and "time compared achieved" with this team sales management and see until we have a way to improve the diagnosis of sales performance and resulting ROI.

Do-it-yourself marketing tools

After falling in love with Levengers shirt pocket and PDA bag of love, began to become increasingly dependent on the 3 "by 5" cards. They are ideal for taking notes on the road and keeping systems in my office, so I naturally began to think of ways to use the cards to automate the process of my sales. From this I was born "3X5". I may not be the first person to use index cards and in this way, but I think a lot of sellers is the system easy to use and very effective.
Will need the following tool to create your own 3X5 sales. I found everything I needed in cities and Staples all cost me about $ 25.00.

* A box to store cards
* Monthly 3 "by 5" tabs
* Daily (1-31) 3 "by 5" tabs
* Alphabetical 3 "by 5" tabs
* After tons of eggs 3 "by 5" cards
* Bouquet colorful 3 "by 5" cards
* Small enclosure cards to carry in your pocket

Once you buy the necessary supplies, you can organize your 3X5. For simplicity, suppose that you are meeting your 3X5 on January 1st. If this is the case, it would be to organize one of the tabs in the order below (front to back):

* January tab
* Tabs 1-31 days
* February-December monthly tabs
* A-Z alphabetical tabs
* Data virgin - white and color of your choice

If your cards are now in the box and the first thing you should see the January tab.

Then you should start creating cards for your leads. At the beginning, it will take some time (assuming you have a lot of tracks). I used to drive the white cards and color cards for my clients. You can do whatever you prefer, but I think it would be helpful to pause and clients.

The system works as follows.

Imagine that from January 1. And attend a networking event where you meet potential clients. The advertising business cards at this event and you want to contact him / her on the 2., So when you arrive at your office, you can lead heart card on a white sheet and place it behind the tab "2", then go home for the day. After all, it is New Year's Day, and you have worked hard to create your system and new sales network attended the event.

So you get to work on January 2nd. And open your 3X5. The first thing you need to do is move the "1" beyond the tab tab Feb. Will always roll forward such a system, so that the first tab you see in the box represents the month, then a day later.

Now go to the tab for today (January 2). And find a trail map, which met at a networking meeting yesterday. Call the lead and you know he / she is out of town until January 6. So you make a note that says "02/01/05 -. M. lead on vacation until 1/6" Now you drop the card behind the tab "6" for the month of January.

You will continue to roll in this advertisement before in the system, take notes at each step, until it becomes lead either to a client or to ask you to leave them alone.

If the thread turns into a customer, I fundamental to their business card colorful card and place it behind the appropriate alphabetical tab. So what is another option with this client, I propose colorful card to the Department dated and moved through the process.

Of course, you can also add people to your pipeline, you can not get in touch with everyone on the day they are for a specific period of time. Just move them an opening in the coming days at the end of the day so that you can communicate with them tomorrow.

Do not want to carry a huge metal box full of cards, and this is the reason why you want to have a portfolio of index cards or small box, so if you're on the road or out of the office, just enter your card for the day and leave.

Not only for the sellers.

While the system is ideal for salespeople, it is also an excellent tool for those of us who focus on networks. In fact, I use three different colored cards and use white wire Walozark Red and customers to my contacts networks (national, I know). On the red cards, or I write 7, 14, 30, 45, 60, etc. in the upper right corner of the index card for the number of times I remind me that I want to communicate with the person, then j 'I just move the card forward based on the card number. If you want to contact someone every seven days, I suggest the card a week ago after I contact.

These relationships are really good at Keith Ferrazzi reservations Never eat alone, and he regularly advises the network Ping. By the way, if you have not read the book, you should. You can get a free book notes blog never eat alone.

Options / improvements.

I was considering adding tabs daily each month so that I can move people to this day before any individual (ie 11 August) in the future.

You can also stay a few sticky tabs on hand so you can add a tab at the top of the plug to the anniversary of communications. If you do, you can simply put a tab on the ground in August of each card name, which is the anniversary of August so it can quickly gather a list of the anniversary of each month. Again, this is probably overkill and probably can add the names of contacts in the calendar and keep it separate, but what fun is that?