As a salesperson, you always want to improve your sales techniques, volume, and practices. There’s always room for improvement in the fast-paced sales world. Our experts at Shapiro Negotiation designed our Corporate Sales Training Program to equip you with cutting-edge tools, habits, and techniques to increase your sales efficiency. Using our six-step approach to sales techniques, you’ll be able to close deals and sniff out prospects in an effective manner.
Here are a few tips that you can utilize to improve your sales efficiency today.
Keep Track of Prospects
Prospecting is a mindset and a practice that should be applied everywhere you go. Always think about where your next sale is or who your next lead will be when going about your daily sales operations. In addition, keep track of your best prospecting practices for reference.
Keeping a running document of prospecting tips can help you perform at peak efficiency. Record your best opening lines from emails, cold calling scripts, and LinkedIn practices that have won clients over. Refer to this document and keep adding to it to create a comprehensive prospect guide.
Know How to Qualify a Lead
Lead qualification is an important skill that all salespeople should master. This process helps you determine how to approach a potential client with your sales pitch. Knowing what their needs are can help you connect a potential lead with your company’s goods and services.
Always analyze the following key factors to determine if you should pursue a lead:
- Budget: Can the lead afford your product?
- Need: Does the lead have a need for your product and how can your product satisfy that need?
- Interest: Has the lead expressed interest in a similar product before?
- Role: Does the contact person for that lead have the authority to purchase your product? If not, can you reach the person with that authority?
- Timing: Does the lead need your product within a certain timeframe? Can you and your company satisfy that time frame?
Prepare Questions
You want your leads to feel connected to you and your company. This will encourage them to purchase your product. To establish credibility with your potential client, make sure to adequately research and prepare materials before meeting with them.
A great way to establish a relationship with your client is to ask them engaging questions. What is their current experience without your product like? How can you help solve their problems? What do they wish they could have to make their job easier? All of these questions create a connection between you and your client. In addition, good preparation signals to the client that you care about their experience with your company.
Provide Options and a Safety Net
Presenting your potential client with one product option can put a lot of pressure on the client. They might become hesitant and refrain from committing to a purchase. To alleviate this risk, make sure to present your client with at least three product options so they feel in control of the sales situation.
In addition, you should also provide a safety net in case they don’t enjoy your product. This could be a free trial, a money back guarantee, or a product pilot. These techniques will ease your client into a sense of security when it’s time to close the deal.
Focus on Trustworthiness
A client will not commit to a purchase if they don’t trust you. It is up to you as the salesperson to build a trustworthy rapport with the client by integrating credibility, integrity, and reliability into your sales calls.
Before your meeting, research beforehand and make sure you prepare questions and sales points. This signals to the client that you are credible and knowledgeable. Always keep your client’s best interest in mind when negotiating a deal. In addition, always deliver what you say you’re going to deliver. In fact, you should over-deliver whenever possible. These actions combined will allow a client to feel at ease and develop a sense of trust.
Interested in gaining in-depth knowledge and interactive practice with these sales techniques? Shapiro Negotiation’s Corporate Sales Training Program uses this curriculum to provide sales professionals with the habits, tools, and practices they need for optimal sales success. Our workshops offer an integrated and systematic approach and expert design to the corporate sales world.
Contact Shapiro Negotiations to schedule a training session for your team today.
