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Sales Training Courses

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: The Main Skills to Develop If You Are in Sales


Effective sales people are good because they have mastered the critical core skills for their job. Like other professionals, they also are required to perform administrative tasks and to treat people with respect and courtesy. However, just because a doctor may have a good beside manner, he will not be effective if he doesn't also exhibit the technical skills of a well-trained physician. In the same way, a cheerful sales person will not be effective if he or she has not mastered core selling skills. If you are in sales, here are some basic skills that you must be able to perform at a high level:


Prospecting: This is the primary skill needed to fill up your sales pipeline. You must be able to canvass likely customers or suspects, and turn them into prospects. Prospects are people who have the need for your product or service, and also have the ability to buy.
If you can consistently maintain a large pool of prospects, then you will significantly improve your chances for sales success.


Asking Qualifying Questions and Identifying Needs: Once you have identified your prospects, then you must be able to qualify them before you can convert them into customers. You must identify their specific needs and desires, or problems that your product or service will address. The only way that you will discover this is by asking the right qualifying questions. Great sales people know how to use open-ended questions to discover needs, and how to use closed-end questions to confirm them. Customers buy products and services to address their own needs and desires. Great sales people know how to help them by discovering needs through the art of skillful questioning.


Feature-Benefit Presentations: People buy products and services because the benefits provide a solution to their needs and desires. Great sales people don't just describe the features of their products or services. They always associate the corresponding benefit with the feature so that the prospect will understand how it will help them. Feature-benefit dialogue is second nature to seasoned sales professionals.


Closing: All good sales people know how to close the sale. This doesn't mean that they use manipulation or high-pressure techniques; however, they know how to summarize the prospect's needs and demonstrate how the features and benefits of their product or service can address them. Good closing techniques help prospects decide to buy by helping them clearly understand the information. Closing helps the prospect see how your product or service is the best solution available to their problems. Educating prospects is how good sales people close the sale and convert them into paying customers.


Time Management: Time management is a critical skill for everyone and especially sales people. Everyone only gets the same twenty-four hours in a day, and those who are effective in their jobs understand how to make the most of their time. Great sales people focus on the critical tasks: prospecting, interviewing customers, making presentations and closing sales. They maximize their own performance when they are spending quality time with prospects and customers, and they manage their time accordingly. While they also complete reports and attend meetings with their boss, they use their workday to focus on the people who are likely to buy rather than the less productive administrative tasks.


As with any job, there is always a lot to learn about your company, its products, the industry, and your competition. It takes time to build quality relationships with people both inside and outside of your company. Whenever you start a new job, it can be overwhelming and confusing, so you need to focus on what is really important to your success. If you are in sales, make sure that you step back from all the activity and focus on these core skills that every sales person needs to know to be successful. These five skills will make the biggest impact on your success.


 

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