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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 courses. We provide pubic open enrollment and private courses at the location of your choice. We conduct in excess of 200 monthly sales training courses throughout the world.

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Students of a Sales Training Center class course will learn to:

  • Communicate more effectively with customers
  • Develop the ability to build positive chemistry and rapport

  • 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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Sales Training Course: Simply Speaking - Increase Sales Using These 7 Words


Imagine just by changing 7 words that you currently use now as a sales professional you could quickly increase sales. Would that be of interest to you?


Years ago, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale said: "Change your thoughts, change your world." I believe that in sales, as well as in life, if you change your words you will change your results. The words that we think and speak have a tremendous affect upon those around us. As a sales professional, this could dramatically increase your sales. And who wouldn't like a little more money in the bank?


First, do you think of your potential buyers as prospects? What picture does this generate in your brain? What actions do you associate with finding prospects? Do those actions (sales skills) possibly make the prospect an object of your desire? Have you unintentionally devalued that individual sitting across the table from you? Consider replacing the word prospect with the phrase potential customer or potential qualified customer. Would this create a different picture in your mind's eye?


Second, by changing the word prospect into the phrase potential qualified customer, you are no longer just prospecting, but rather qualifying potential customers. This allows you to work smarter and not harder and really maximize your sales skills or talents.


The third word replaces the word yes with the word agree. What this word does is to convey a contract even if none has been sign. Agree has 100 times more emotional value than the word yes. And let us be honest, who wants to hear the word yes more, your potential customer or you as the sales professional?


Earn is the fourth word that can increase sales for you. Every time I hear this phrase "close the deal" or "close the sale," I inwardly cringe because this word means to shut off or shut down. From my perspective, as someone who has been in sales for over 30 years, I still cannot figure out why any sales professional would literally want to shut down their potential buyer.


Number five is not a word, but a phrase. In working with potential qualified clients, I realized that a proposal put me in what have come to call the Sea of Sameness. I am like all those other gray suits out in the marketplace. Also, I accepted that I am in the sales business and not in the proposal writing business. To be the Red Jacket, I created this phrase, statement of work, when asked to submit a proposal. Of course, I now write very few statements of work because I have learned to better qualify potential buyers and not waste time writing those darned proposals. The result is that I have increased sales.


The sixth word that I have found to increase sale is educating. No longer am I selling my services or solutions, but rather educating suspects, potential customers and qualified potential customers. I look at every opportunity as one to educate someone else provided they have expressed interest. Through this education process, I have demonstrated the value of my solutions. For many sales professionals this is somewhat difficult because they have been conditioned through sales based marketing. This approach is no longer as effective as it once was. What is far more effective especially for service professionals is education based marketing or EBA.


Now the seventh word is possibly the most important one and that word is Ask. When sales professionals take the time to ask for referrals, to ask to speak, to ask if they can help, a vast pool of opportunities are suddenly opened to them.


Sales Coaching Tip: You can increase sales and even improve your sales skills by changing the words that you think and speak. These are not the only ones, but are a good beginning.


 

Source: Leanne Hoagland-Smith link

 

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