Business development is the process of acquiring new sales, clients and relationships. At a very basic level, skills vital for success in business development can include communication, prospecting, qualifying, closing, negotiation and relationship building.
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Why You Need to Increase Your Average Deal Size
Increasing your average deal size is one meaningful way to increase your revenue, and it prevents you from needing to triple or quadruple the number of deals you need to reach your goals.
Telephone Sales Techniques For Success (Part 2): Pre-call Preparation
Once you have your general mindset under control, it’s time to look at how you prepare your week. Be organised, be clear on your structure, focus areas and priorities.
Telephone Sales Techniques For Success (Part 1): Mindset
A strong mindset is the foundation of everything you do. Once you genuinely come from the right mindset, telephone sales techniques become easier.
Speak to Me – Personalisation in Sales
Technology provides a myriad of tools that allow you to aggregate information and then find relevant content to share. Know your customers, know what drives and motivates them and truly know what information they engage with best.
Engaging The CEO (PART 3): Language Of The C-Level Executive
If we want to elevate how we influence and sell, to engage at the CEO or the CXO level in an organisation, then we need to talk the language of leadership and it occurs at two levels: Discuss how you can deliver outcomes and manage their risks.
Talk about the numbers and the business case, plus how success will be measured.
9 Enormous Mistakes Salespeople Make and Their Causes
Selling isn’t easy under the very best of circumstances. There are things you can do to make it much more challenging without intending to. Here are nine mistakes salespeople make and their root causes.
Sales and the “new normal”: virtual prospecting during COVID-19
Many well-established businesses used to have most of their processes in person, often making the most of events and trade shows. In addition, successful enterprise teams take time to develop and train until they produce results. How does that translate to purely digital?
5 Strategies To Handle Intimidating Prospects
Batman or High D’s are not intentionally unkind or rude. Their bark is often worse than his bite. If you respect them and meet their expectations, they will probably do business with you and become a life long client.
Networking At A Conference – How To!
After 10 years in running EVENTS, Trade Shows and Entertainment, people always said the same thing to me, that the networking was the best part of the event, it didn't matter how much technology or free drinks we put on, business people always love to chat.
What Qualities Do Good Sales Recruits Have?
Determine what type of salesperson and/or approach you need first. The higher the complexity of what you are selling, the more skilful and knowledgeable your salespeople will need to be when it comes to customer engagement.
