THE GREETING. Welcome to your first day as a professional sales consultant, I don’t mean like your first, first day… I mean your first real live day on your own. You have the desk, some business cards, shirt and tie… check. The business you work for has given you their “sales process” or “road to […]
Did you practice the positive meditation from last week? This week we jump into getting your attitude into action and performing all of your actions with energy, enthusiasm, passion – PACE and INTENSITY!
While this may seem a little bit silly or archaic, I am a firm believer, that in a sales environment, YOU must be brilliant at the basics, I mean really, really, brilliant at the basics. When I am saying that, one of the most basic and under-used skills of any sales consultant is the skill […]
Original Concept Copyright © August 2009 by Mike Phillips and Joe McCloskey Jr. This is a great set of “rules” to consider in conjunction with whatever your selling process may be, you need to understand that buyers have a set of questions that they ask themselves when making a purchase, a sort of “Buying Process” […]
So, I had an interesting thing happen to me the other day. Note that I am in sales at an auto dealership. I had a gentleman call me and request a price for a vehicle that we had on sale on eBay. SURPRISE!! That’s not the crazy part. He called looking for a good deal […]
For anyone in sales, any sort of sales, anywhere – you’ve encountered objections. Anything from a small “no,” to the big, “I’m not buying your product,” every salesperson has had to work with prospect and customer objections. So let’s talk today about how to isolate and overcome customer objections. First, we need to define an […]
If you are in sales, most likely you’ve taken the time to learn all of the necessary mechanics, sales procedures, proper process, closing techniques and good follow up skills. There is one final, or maybe not so final step… in fact in my opinion, this should be step one! You have to be sold on […]
Welcome to the Lead The Team blog postings. I will be exploring as many possible aspects of sales, motivation, relationships and leadership. These things require specific skill-sets, on their own… and they are all intertwined with one another. Know this… you can’t be burnt out in life if you’ve never been “on fire.” Get ready […]