– By Mike Brooks, www.MrInsideSales.com (Taken from my new book, “The Ultimate Book of Phone Scripts”) I get a lot of ezine topic requests each week, and the majority of them are requests for different questioning techniques to use during the qualification stage. I’m glad to see these requests because it means people understand the […]
Would you finally like to know exactly what to say in any selling situation when you call prospects and clients? Well now you can? My new book, ?The Ultimate Book of Phone Scripts,? has over 220 word for word, proven scripts to help you deal with all the blow offs, put offs and objections you […]
If you are a business owner or sales manager responsible for getting your team of sales reps to make their numbers or achieve sales quotas, then I feel your pain. If you’re like many of the sales managers and owners I work with, then I know you’re being pulled in many different directions. You’re busy; […]
Many sales reps send me emails asking the same thing, “How can I sell against my competition and win the deal?” They tell me it gets more and more difficult as there is always someone who has a similar product for less money, or who can offer their kind of service with more bells and […]
Welcome to the New Year! So, are you ready to start cold calling, prospecting and reaching out to prospects? If so, you’d better be prepared for what is sure to be one of the biggest brush off objections this year: “I’m too busy/don’t have the time to talk to you now.” Because of the personnel […]
First, I’d like to thank you all for your Ezine topic requests. I do my best to answer them, and generally I look for multiple requests on the same subject. And there are a lot of them because let’s face it ? we?re all struggling with the same objections though in different forms. For example, […]
Sounds too good to be true, doesn?t it? Stan Billue, a top telemarketing sales trainer in the late 80?s, claimed that he had a sure fire technique that could double your sales in 90 days if you just followed it. So I did. And it worked! The technique? Record your calls. Everything that you are […]
Whenever the subject of scripts comes up, people usually have definite opinions — they either love them or hate them. Those who wouldn’t be caught dead using scripts like to point to those pesky telemarketers will call at night that sound stilted and computer like. ?I hang right up on them,? they say. ?I’d never […]
How much time and money do you devote to your company’s sales pipeline? Think about the resources, the software, the meetings, the forecasting, the managing and measuring you do, and the time and effort you give it. If you’re like most CEO’s or VP’s or sales managers, your sales pipeline is your life blood. It’s […]
I don?t have to tell you that times are hard for companies these days. And that means hard on you, the sales rep, too. Now when companies tell you that they don?t have the budget, you really believe them, don?t you? Well not the Top 20%. Top 20% producers are still making 80% of the […]
