America's #1 corporate sales trainer shows readers how to qualify a prospect by phone, what constitutes an effective follow-up, what approach to take when prospects have received direct mail appeal beforehand, how best to close the sale over the phone, plus "hot tips" from today's best telemarketers.
If you’ve got ten minutes a day, you can make a telesales breakthrough! By providing one concise, easy-to-read chapter for each daily coffee break, Stephan Schiffman’s Telesales, Second Edition has the power to transform your career and help you post noticeable increases in your numbers in just ten working days and transform your career after a mere twenty-one. Stephan Schiffman has coached thousands of sales teams across the country to improve their telesales performance. He knows exactly what works and doesn’t, and in this completely revised second edition, he shares with you all of his insider’s secrets, including how to: Master the five ways you can increase your income Track your numbers . . . and use them to your advantage Evaluate your performance effectively . . . so you hit your own goals Gain control of the call Leave effective phone messages Use "how" and "why" questions to your advantage Learn what’s going on in the prospect’s world Understand the four types of negative responses . . . and find out how to get past each one Turn small adjustments in your performance into large income gains By spending just minutes a day with this one clear, concise book, you can learn everything from creating a script; to recognizing when not calling a prospect can increase your sales productivity, to practicing the ten traits of world class salespeople. In this highly competitive world where the obstacles against telemarketers continue to become increasingly daunting, you can’t afford not to have these tools in your sales arsenal!
Having trouble closing your deals? Hitting a frustrating plateau with your sales numbers? Feel that upselling is a lost cause? Let sales guru Stephan Schiffman drive your sales pitches up a notch with his tried-and-true techniques - and get results immediately! Stephan Schiffman's Sales Essentials includes time-tested tips on: Mastering the cold call Using email as a selling tool Raising the stakes to "up" your next buy Closing the deal - every time! Plus, you'll also find 50 surefire questions to ask to make deal after deal, year after year. Packed with insider information you need to beat the competition, you can't afford not to read Stephan Schiffman's Sales Essentials!
For one of the fastest growing segments of the sales profession, this second edition is welcome. Offering hundreds of new ways to break the ice and complete a sale, it also gives classic tools from the first edition, proven by sales reps and managers. "Ideal for new and veteran sales reps alike, here is the perfect primer for a tough, rewarding job".--The Wall Street Journal.
As more and more organizations scale back on their in-the-field sales operations, sales pros have had to focus their energy and skills on closing deals over the phone--and doing it faster than ever before. Authors Renee P. Walkup and Sandra McKee's easy-to-follow guide for salespeople trying to generate product excitement over the phone provides quick strategies to help you boost your success rate. Selling to Anyone Over the Phone does this by teaching readers how to ensure callbacks, build trust, partner with decision makers, and use personality-matching techniques to build connections with and relate to people they can't see face-to-face. The fully updated second edition includes new chapters on using advanced technology (e.g., webinars and teleconferencing) and selling to customers from other cultures and countries. Complete with an invaluable appendix on handling customer complaints and new sample call dialogs, Selling to Anyone Ove the Phone simplifies an increasingly important facet of the sales role so you can get back to doing what you do best--providing excellent products and services to your customers and exceeding your sales goals.
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Believe in the power of miracles... "A special little book, an antidote to the stress, fury, and unfeelingness of many people's hurried, everyday lives." --Newsday "Judith Leventhal and Yitta Halberstam amaze and inspire with their incredible-but-true story collections...of wondrous true coincidences." --People "Small Miracles is a book you'll love and cherish for a long time to come. It will make you aware of similar events that are happening to you--those touches of grace that, when we think to look for them, bless us all." --Belle
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