Tag: Sales

Are your prospects ready to buy? Eliminate the surprise factor and find out well before the close. Here’s how.

A great story is memorable and easy to understand, and can engage and draw in your audience far more readily than a speech or presentation can. The good news is that effective storytelling is not as difficult as it might seem – being prepared is the key.

Today’s sales environment is so complex that the skills required to be successful are at the standard of high level University qualifications. Despite this, sales hasn’t had a place in the academic agenda; only a few papers here and there. That is, until now.

Sales is a journey. If the customer does not understand where you are headed and why she should come along, she won’t.

Sales is the lifeblood of any small business. To become sales rockstars and keep up with changing consumer wants and needs, business owners must review some basic do’s and don’ts of the selling process.

Here’s a marketing idea worth considering: Give your customers a front-row seat and let them watch you work.

High-pressure sales tactics can be more annoying than effective. There’s a better way to move a deal forward.

Social, economic and political tensions bring uncertainty, with many businesses wondering what to expect and how to align their sales efforts moving forward. Here’s a guide to 12 sales trends that will change how businesses sell and buy.

A bad sales experience can create a mental block against selling in the minds of business owners and their staff, yet every business is dependent on sales. A great step towards creating a successful sales strategy is to review the values you’d like to uphold in the sales function of your business.

Desperate times call for desperate measures, which is why one expert suspects the ‘hard sell’ is making a comeback in business, despite the fact it’s a well and truly outdated sales method.