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Sales Training:
Welcome to the Sales Training Center's comprehensive resource site for effective, performance-based sales training and sales development programs. Over the past thirty years, sales professionals and sales managers across the world have benefited from our highly interactive sales training workshops. We provide pubic open enrollment and private workshops at the location of your choice. We conduct in excess of 200 monthly sales training workshops throughout the world.
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Students of a Sales Training Center workshop will learn to:
Deal with multi-levels sales structures—users, authorizers, and purchasing agents
Use post-sales call measurement to assess their own performance and identify key customer issues by thinking and responding like a business consultant
Recognize basic styles of buyer behavior and determine how to adapt to each style to create positive "chemistry"
Analyze what sales people say, reducing the potential for misunderstanding
Effectively manage and control anger, conflict and difficult situations
Develop active listening skills to focus on what customers are saying
Be able to facilitate, guide, and close discussions in one-on-one and group settings
Build and give appropriate credit for other peoples ideas and avoid putting others on the defensive
Make a positive impact on the quality of teamwork and productivity within the work unit by effectively giving and receiving feedback
Sell long-term relationships rather than price
Incorporate interviewing skills into the sales process in lieu of pitching products
Apply the appropriate sales techniques based on the buyer and behavior type
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Years ago back in the 1960s Pete Seeger penned the lyrics to a song titled "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" After asking this question, another question within the song was "When will they ever learn?"
Even though this was not a song about sales, I was reminded of it recently when viewing numerous responses in blogs dedicated to sales and then observing the behaviors of small business owners to sales professionals. So where have all the sales people gone?
Listen to the conversations at business networking events. How many in attendance are complaining about revenues being down and it is so much harder to close the deal?
Their comments remind me of another story that I had read (wish I had kept it) about salespersons who sold electric generators to farmers in the early 1900s. This would not be significant except the farmers did not have electricity at that time running to their farms.
Watch how many new books on marketing and selling are published every month. The list continues to grow. Of course there are always the tried and true from Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill to Jeff Gitomer's Little Book series. Then new ones such as SNAP Selling by Jill Konrath and People Buy You by Jeb Blount continue to educate those who are new and old to this great profession.
Many of these books share similar concepts and most appear to reinforce the philosophy that sales begins within the individual. And this is why the second question popped up because so many engaged in selling have not learned that simple and easy concept. Part of this maybe because these individuals do not know their talents and may be encouraged to change their selling style at the expense of this lack of personal knowledge.
In some cases, these high performing salespersons have left corporate America and have struck out as entrepreneurs. Given their performance to increase sales, they know they have the talents to accomplish the selling phase within the sales process. The only thing they may lack is the marketing knowledge and skills.
Then there are those who truly do not want to sell, but they have no choice or think that anyone can sell. In both cases they are wrong. People always have a choice even it is not the best one and anyone can sell provided he or she understands where the sales process begins. Sales Training Coaching Tip: If you think you can or you think you cannot, either way you are right. Henry Ford
Professional salespersons will always be needed because the goal to increase sales is always present. Today as it was yesterday, finding them is the first challenge. Then keeping them so your company will not be singing where have all the sales people gone is the second one.
Source: Leanne Hoagland-Smith link
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