Cold Calling Blues?
Just under a year ago, I bought a new car. Many of you may remember this as I mentioned a BMW dealer who showed a total lack of interest in my questions and enquiries. He effectively made my decision for me to buy from a different manufacturer. Anyway, I was reminded of this incident when I got this email from one of my readers… We lease some cars for sales staff on contract hire. Sales guy... [Read more]
What would you achieve if you knew you couldn’t fail?
I was meeting with a good friend of mine, Andy Smith (NLP and EI trainer), the other day and, over a tasty Chinese buffet lunch, we were talking about “things that truly make a difference”. Interestingly, and despite all of the training courses that we had both been on, we were in total agreement that you could track back the things that had truly made a difference for us to a handful of techniques... [Read more]
A sales training tip for estate agents… and everyone else!
I have a hobby, it’s called “door-kicking”. It’s a little like “tyre-kicking” but it doesn’t involve cars, it involves houses. When I’m not following my twin passions of motivational speaking and sales training, I love looking around houses… show-houses, old houses, new houses, penthouse flats, country cottages, farms… anything really. You could say that I am an estate agent’s... [Read more]
Sales training tips – it’s not all about you, you know!
What are your goals? What are your aims? How many sales do you need to make this month? What is your annual sales target? What does your product or service do? How much sales activity do you need to do every month? How many cold calls do you need to make to close enough sales? How many networking meetings do you need to attend? How many client sales meetings do you need to run? How many sales presentations... [Read more]
Check out this loser!
Check out this loser… 1831 – Lost his job 1832 – Defeated in run for Illinois State Legislature 1833 – Failed in business 1835 – Sweetheart died 1836 – Had nervous breakdown 1838 – Defeated in run for Illinois House Speaker 1843 – Defeated in run for nomination for U.S. Congress 1848 – Lost re-nomination 1849 – Rejected for land officer position 1854... [Read more]
The Sales Apprentice 2009: Sales training tips from the hit TV show, part X
If you spent tonight watching Manchester United play Barcelona in the Champions League then the good news is that you didn’t miss a lot in the way of sales training and business tips on tonight’s Apprentice. What you did miss however was Sir Alan sacking someone that, based upon your emails to me, many of you had thought would make the final. I agreed with Sir Alan’s decision but more of that... [Read more]
The Sales Apprentice 2009: Sales training tips from the hit TV show, part IX
Week 9 and this week the apprentices had to select and sell two baby products per team at the Baby Show in Earls Court. The team who sold the most would win and on the losing team, someone would get the sack. Leading Ben, Debra and Yasmina (Empire) this week was James. Leading Howard and Kate (Ignite) was Lorraine. I’m really not sure who I wanted to lose this week or who I’d like to sack first.... [Read more]
The Sales Apprentice 2009: Sales training hits from the hit TV show, part VIII
Week 8 and an interesting task rebranding Margate from being “a little tired” to being “a cool place to go”. Not many sales training tips this week but an interesting night and a few good tips. Leading the two teams this week were Debra and Yasmina. Yasmina declared that she was suggesting herself for this task as it required a “multitude of skills” and that she had them. Nothing if not... [Read more]
The Sales Apprentice 2009: Sales training tips from the hit TV show, part VII
Week 7 and 8 apprentices remained to compete in this week’s task of choosing two products from a selection of 12 and then selling them to dealers in Manchester and Liverpool over a two day period. The winning team, as usual, would be the team which made the most sales. Sir Alan was quick to say that tonight’s task was all about sales and that everybody had to sell and that no-one would escape. So,... [Read more]
The Sales Apprentice 2009: Sales training tips from the hit TV show, part IV
Tonight’s task on the sales apprentice was to produce two original and natural body care products and then sell them to the public. The team leaders were selected personally by Sir Alan and were Noorul and Paula… let the battle of the ex public sector employees commence. Paula’s Empire team quickly decided that they were going to produce a shower gel and a soap using seaweed as their natural... [Read more]
