Sometimes, when something doesn’t turn out the way we want, it turns out to be a good thing… This happened to me early on in my consulting career, when I started working from my office in my home: One day my router stopped working and my internet went out. I was in the middle […]
Happy With Who We’re Using
This blog post is for those of you who haven’t purchased and read any of my book of scripts yet (what are you thinking? 🙂 ) For those of you who are prospecting, this objection, “We’re happy with who we’re using,” is something you most likely encounter often. The question is: what do you say […]
“How are you today?” Use it or Ditch it?
How do you open your calls? Do you ask, “How are you today?” or do you use a different opening? There was a time when I was against using the worn-out opening of, “How are you today?” and provided a slew of different options—all of which had their place, and some of which I still […]
Proven Way to Increase Sales
I received the following email from a previous coaching client of mine (Rino Racanelli). His email boils down my sales philosophy, and it shows how much success you can have if you follow just a couple of proven principles. I’m reprinting it below—word for word. The subject line was: “I took your advice”: Hi Mike, […]
One Easy Way to Double Your Sales This Year
If you manage an inside sales team, or if you’re an individual producer, then I’m sure you’d love to learn of an easy way to double your sales this year. Think about what that would mean for your company! You’d be able to expand and grow and hire a larger team that would allow you […]
One Error to Correct on Your Prospecting Scripts
Congrats to those companies & individuals who sent in their prospecting scripts for review. I received many scripts and went ahead and reviewed ten (instead of just the three). One error I kept seeing was reps’ mishandling asking for the right person when they didn’t know the right contact’s name. Usually, they asked it this […]
How to Make Your Email Subject Line Compelling
By now, I hope you have all been incorporating your prospect’s name in your email subject lines. If you have, then you are already getting more prospects to lock onto your email, and that will mean more prospects will read them. The second part of a compelling subject line is to make the rest of […]
Free Script Review—First Three Companies Only!
Success in sales is easy—if you’re using the right messaging. Unfortunately, many companies and reps still insist on winging it—and that makes your day-to-day jobs harder, and it leads to hit and miss success. Proper scripting—knowing exactly what to say in each selling situation you get into—makes all the difference between struggling and missing quotas, […]
One Question to Learn Buying Motive
How is your first quarter turning out so far? Closing lots of business and exceeding your quota? Or are you struggling to catch up and hoping for a strong March? If you or your team is struggling, a cause might be a fundamental flaw that many sales teams suffer from: failure to understand—and pitch to—a […]
One Quick Secret to Getting Your Emails Opened and Read
How many emails do you get every day at work? Fifty? A hundred? More? And how about after the weekend? Let’s face it: your prospecting emails can be lost in the sea of unread emails. And if it’s from someone the prospect doesn’t know? That just makes it even harder to get your email read… […]