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4 Best Ways to Prevent Summer Sales Call Cancellations

The Sales Hunter

While some salespeople do cut back during the summer, it also can be the customers who start canceling appointments. Here are a four ways to prevent sales call cancellations in the summer: 1. Reason is simple: Customers aren’t going to cancel on you after you’ve taken the time to confirm with them.

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2 Cancelled Flights and Another Lesson in Leading Salespeople

The Sales Hunter

When you have 2 out of 4 flights cancelled in a span of 3 days, and both cancellations result in overnight stays and missed meetings, you do have to wonder about air travel. Irony of the cancelled flights is yes stuff got pushed back, rearranged, etc., Blog leadership Professional Selling Skills sales leadership'

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To Become A Master Salesperson, Master NON Selling Skills.

Jeffrey Gitomer

To Become A Master Salesperson, Master NON Selling Skills. Tweet Share Everyone talks about “how to sell” Not me. If you save this list, review it weekly for a year, select one of the elements each week and work on the skill, you will become a master. You can learn old world selling skills.

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Selling Skills or Selling Process? Which is Holding You Back.

The Sales Hunter

Selling Skills or Selling Process? A person with strong selling skills. Strong selling skills certainly are a beginning. These include the ability to listen, ask questions, create a unique selling proposition and ultimately close. I refer to these as selling skills, not a sales process.

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The 4 Essentials to Sell to the CFO in a Challenging Economy

The Sales Readiness Blog

This is undoubtedly the case today, when sales organizations see buying decisions being put on hold, budgets getting canceled and deals taking longer to close. In times of economic uncertainty, corporate spending garners greater scrutiny and more decision-makers.

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How to Avoid the Summer Sales Slump

The Sales Hunter

The number of sales appointments that get cancelled goes up and the number of excuses people make goes up. It happens every summer. The result? A sales slump. Summer is not the time to make excuses about things not happening. I like to view it as the time to make things happen, because other salespeople […].

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Why is Sales Leadership Connected to Emotions in Sales? (video)

Pipeliner

It involves asking questions and helping individuals discover their own solutions, which is both a coaching and selling skill. We suggested that coaching should be routine and not treated as a low priority task that gets canceled or rescheduled frequently.