How to Say It: Business to Business Selling
How to Say It: Business to Business Selling

Author: Geoffrey James

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2011-12-06

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1101559039

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There are approximately 35 million business to business sales reps in the country selling everything from books and computers to furniture and flooring. They know as well as anyone that selling to other businesses is not the same as selling to consumers. Businesses have different budgets, needs, demands, and expectations from those of general consumers. That means an entirely different skill set is required of business to business sales reps. How to Say It: Business to Business Selling is the only book of its kind that caters exclusively to business to business sales professionals. Its short chapters provide tips and strategies tailored especially for the unique business to business selling process. You'll learn how to: Motivate Yourself to Sell Craft an Elevator Pitch Find Hot Sales Leads Make a Cold Call Use Voicemail to Sell Give a Sales Presentation Write a Sales Proposal Give a Product Demo Negotiate the Best Deal Close a Sale Create a Powerful Sales Process Sell to Top Executives Build Sales Partnerships Get a Customer Referral Accelerate Your Sales Cycle With How to Say It: Business to Business Selling you can sell business to business like a seasoned pro.

Sales Management That Works
Sales Management That Works

Author: Frank V. Cespedes

Publisher: Harvard Business Press

Published: 2021-02-23

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1633698777

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Named to the longlist for the 2021 Outstanding Works of Literature (OWL) Award in the Sales & Marketing category In this smart, practical, and research-based guide, Harvard Business School professor Frank Cespedes offers essential sales strategies for a world that never stops changing. The rise of e-commerce. Big data. AI. Given these trends (and many others), there's no doubt that sales is changing. But much of the current conventional wisdom is misleading and not supported by empirical data. If you as a manager fail to separate fact from hype, you will make decisions based on faulty assumptions and, in a competitive market, eventually fall behind those with a keener grasp of the current selling environment. In this no-nonsense book, sales expert and Harvard Business School professor Frank Cespedes provides sales managers and executives with the tools they need to separate the signal from the noise. These include how to: Hire and deploy the right talent Pay and incentivize your sales force Improve ROI from your training programs Create a comprehensive sales model Set and test the right prices Build and manage a multichannel approach Brimming with fascinating examples, insightful research, and helpful diagnostics, Sales Management That Works will help sales managers build a great sales team, create an optimal strategy, and steer clear of hype and fads. Salespeople will be better equipped to respond to changes, executives will be able to track and accelerate ROI, and readers will understand why improving selling is a social as well as an economic responsibility of business.

Secrets of Question-Based Selling
Secrets of Question-Based Selling

Author: Thomas Freese

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 1402287534

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"After I sent my team to the Question Based Selling program, not only was the feedback from the training outstanding, but we experienced an immediate positive impact in results."—Jim Cusick, vice president of sales, SAP America, Inc. "Following the program, even our most experienced salespeople raved, saying QBS was the best sales training they have ever experienced!"—Alan D. Rohrer, director of sales, Hewlett Packard For nearly fifteen years, The Secrets of Question Based Selling has been helping great salespeople live you deliver big results. It's commonsense approach has become a classic, must-have tool that demonstrates how asking the right questions at the right time accurately identifies your customer's needs. But consumer behavior and sales techniques change as rapidly as technology—and there are countless contradictory sales training programs promising results. Knowing where you should turn to for success can be confusing. Now fully revised and updated, The Secrets of Question Based Selling provides a step-by-step, easy-to-follow program that focuses specifically on sales effectiveness—identifying the strategies and techniques that will increase your probability of success. How you sell has become more important than the product. With this hands-on guide, you will learn to: Penetrate more accounts Overcome customer skepticism Establish more credibility sooner Generate more return calls Motivate different types of buyers Develop more internal champions Close more sales...faster And much, much more

Sales Therapy
Sales Therapy

Author: Grant Leboff

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-06-15

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 190731220X

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If you work in a small business, you have to know how to sell. Full stop. But selling as most people know it doesn’t work anymore. It’s relationships that count. Real selling is about understanding customers’ goals and helping them to buy, not topping off a template presentation with a pushy attitude. So how do you put relationships first and still get results? Sales Therapy smashes the age-old sales model with an effective new approach grounded in behavioural psychology. It is natural and effortless to use because it mirrors the way people actually interact with each other. And it really works. Thomas Power, Chairman of Ecademy, describes it as ‘One of the finest pieces of content on how to sell better in the 21st Century.’ At last, you can commit those terrible ‘closing techniques’ to the recycle bin. Sales Therapy will help you build great relationships with your customers while making the art of selling fun and effective and helping your business to grow. PRAISE FOR SALES THERAPY ‘This is one of the finest pieces of content on how to sell better in the 21st Century. Grant you are absolutely right with your judgment’ Thomas Power, Chairman of Ecademy

Business and Sales
Business and Sales

Author: Eddie Lester

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-12-29

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9781539982869

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Eddie Lester has helped more than four thousand personal trainers reach their financial goals and grow their businesses. Now, he wants to help you do the same in this new guide to professional success. In Business and Sales: The Guide to Success as a Personal Trainer, Lester takes you through every step needed to secure the sale and net a new client. Like your own journey, the guide starts with one of the most important steps: attaining certification. Passion isn't enough to be a personal trainer; you need to show your clients that you are knowledgeable and trustworthy. The next chapters reveal how to create a personal brand, define your niche, target your most important demographic, hone your selling personality and sales pitch, make an amazing first impression, follow up with each client, and calculate a pricing structure. Lester also outlines business checkpoints to help you gauge your progress. His "Power Questions" can uncover a client's true motivations and empower you to make the sale. The most important concept Lester wants you to learn is discipline. Use the same drive that makes you a successful personal trainer to become just as successful as a business owner.

Sales Won't Save Your Business
Sales Won't Save Your Business

Author: Joe Pardo

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-01-27

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9781982048877

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Do you want to develop confidence in your team, your customers, and yourself all while increasing profit? Then... Focus on the TOP (Team, Offer, Process) In Sales Won't Save Your Business, Super Joe Pardo shares the secrets to his TOP formula. He used this formula to catapult his family's $100 million business to the next level and then launch his own successful consulting career. Sales Won't Save Your Business is a GPS for your organization, taking you from where you are to where you want to be. Rather than chapters, Joe uses "pins"-points along the journey where you need to stop and learn something. In these pages, you will discover how to: -Empower yourself to do what is necessary -Implement change without ruffling feathers -Create strong relationships with customers and team members -Integrate technology into your business -Grow your profit through training -Control your customers' perception for your benefit -Create predictable and profitable processes Whether you're a business owner, manager, salesperson, or aspiring leader, this hard-hitting, empowering book will inspire you to apply the TOP formula to your business, thereby increasing your confidence, your team's effectiveness, your customers' experience, and ultimately, your profit.

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# LEADS to SALES Tweet Book01

Author: Jim McAvoy

Publisher: Happy About

Published: 2011-08-03

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 1616990589

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McAvoy, with a quarter century of proven performance in maximizing sales, collates a treasury of actionable wisdom. He expounds on each of the five components of the process, showing ways in which one can implement it into lead generation and conversion flow. He also offers practical ideas to help readers advance within the prospecting phase of the sales process.

Sales Growth
Sales Growth

Author: McKinsey & Company Inc.

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2016-04-08

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1119281091

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The challenges facing today's sales executives and their organizations continue to grow, but so do the expectations that they will find ways to overcome them and drive consistent sales growth. There are no simple solutions to this situation, but in this thoroughly updated Second Edition of Sales Growth, experts from McKinsey & Company build on their practical blueprint for achieving this goal and explore what world-class sales executives are doing right now to find growth and capture it—as well as how they are creating the capabilities to keep growing in the future. Based on discussions with more than 200 of today's most successful global sales leaders from a wide array of organizations and industries, Sales Growth puts the experiences of these professionals in perspective and offers real-life examples of how they've overcome the challenges encountered in the quest for growth. The book, broken down into five overarching strategies for successful sales growth, shares valuable lessons on everything from how to beat the competition by looking forward, to turning deep insights into simple messages for the front line. Page by page, you'll learn how sales executives are digging deeper than ever to find untapped growth, maximizing emerging markets opportunities, and powering growth through digital sales. You'll also discover what it takes to find big growth in big data, develop the right "sales DNA" in your organization, and improve channel performance. Three new chapters look at why presales deserve more attention, how to get the most out of marketing, and how technology and outsourcing could entirely reshape the sales function. Twenty new standalone interviews have been added to those from the first edition, so there are now in-depth insights from sales leaders at Adidas, Alcoa, Allianz, American Express, BMW, Cargill, Caterpillar, Cisco, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Deutsche Bank, EMC, Essent, Google, Grainger, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Intesa Sanpaolo, Itaú Unibanco, Lattice Engines, Mars, Merck, Nissan, P&G, Pioneer Hi-Bred, Salesforce, Samsung, Schneider Electric, Siemens, SWIFT, UPS, VimpelCom, Vodafone, and Würth. Their stories, as well as numerous case studies, touch on some of the most essential elements of sales, from adapting channels to meet changing customer needs to optimizing sales operations and technology, developing sales talent and capabilities, and effectively leading the way to sales growth. Engaging and informative, this timely book details proven approaches to tangible top-line growth and an improved bottom line. Created specifically for sales executives, it will put you in a better position to drive sales growth in today's competitive market.