10 Sales Training Tips That Will Help You To Make More Sales

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I am feeling short , sharp and snappy today so here are 10 sales training tips that will help you to win more business... Play from a 10. Attitude is your ability to access your skill. If you’re not on top of your game, you won’t make many sales. We all know that, yet many salespeople don’t fire on all cylinders when they need to. Try measuring your attitude on a scale of 1 to 10 and concentrate on ensuring that you are on top of your game for all important sales  tasks such as prospecting, meetings, presentations, … [Read more...]

Failure For Us Is Not An Option

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I've been getting a few interesting letters recently and I loved this one from Julian Athawes of Halomec in answer to my blog post last week (What would you achieve if you knew you couldn't fail?) talking about how important attitude is for the success of a company... Hi Gavin, I must admit to normally 'skimming' over your mails, I will try to absorb the content a little more in the future as there is some good stuff in there.  I have just stuck the attached poster on our office wall... (poster received but I can't use it here as I do … [Read more...]

What Would You Achieve If You Knew You Couldn’t Fail?

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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 and strategies. Perhaps more interesting still was the fact that, even with our very different backgrounds, it was very similar topics that had … [Read more...]

Check Out This Loser!

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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 - Defeated in run for U.S. Senate 1856 - Defeated in run for nomination for Vice President 1858 - Again defeated in run for U.S. Senate Sorry! Did … [Read more...]

The Sales Apprentice 2009: Sales Training Tips From The Hit TV Show, Week 12, The Final

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The final of the Apprentice. Cool, professional Kate versus passionate, entrepreneurial Yasmina. Their brief, design and pitch a new brand of chocolate. Sir Alan said they were his best candidates ever and that it was his hardest decision yet. Either could have won. Yasmina did. So that done (!), I thought I would sum up some of the core sales training lessons from this year’s Sales Apprentice... On sales motivation and mindset... Top sales performers perform, they don’t talk about performing. Sales is not about what you say … [Read more...]

Successful Selling Lying On Your Back

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I never cease to be amazed by how little effort many salespeople put into improving their sales skills. Ironically, of course, if you’re reading this I am probably not speaking to you. If you didn’t care about your sales development and your sales results then you probably wouldn’t be reading this at all. One of the questions that I ask of the audience in my Selling in Tough Markets (or Selling in a Recession) keynote speech is, “Who is currently reading a book on selling?” The answer is usually about 2% of the audience at any one … [Read more...]

Getting The Sales Superstar Mindset, Sales Training Video 1 Of 3

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The first of 3 sales training videos on how to adopt the mindset of a sales superstar and make more sales. … [Read more...]

Selling In Tough Markets – Free Special Report

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7 strategies for selling more in an economic downturn or recession. This 14 page special report on how your business can not only survive but thrive and grow in even the most difficult of markets is yours to download and read at your leisure. Packed full of strategies, tips and ideas this report will help you, your team and your company to focus in on what's important - more sales. I have decided to restrict the downloading of this report for members of GavinIngham.com only but don't worry if you're not a member of our sales and business … [Read more...]

Why Practise Makes Perfect When Sales Training

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When running sales training sessions, sales seminars, sales motivational speeches and sales consultancy I am constantly amazed by the lengths that salespeople will go to avoid practising sales techniques. Like any skill, selling requires practise and the more your practise the mor successful you will be. Check out this excerpt on closing the sale from my forthcoming book, Real World Sales Skills: How to Sharpen Your Sales Skills & Win More Sales... The more your practise the more success you are going to achieve. When I make this … [Read more...]

Why Tenacity And Persistence Are Essential For Sales Success

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Imagine for a second that you have set up a new business selling a new form of consulting service. There’s nothing like it in the marketplace and you are going to have to educate your clients on its worth. After a bit or research you settle on a price and go to visit half a dozen selected clients to get their opinion. Unfortunately, every one of them says that it’s too expensive. What do you do? A) Reduce the price to match what they think? B) Re-evaluate the product and add more benefits? C) Start negotiating furiously? D) … [Read more...]