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The Truth About Sales People #4 - They Don't Prospect Very Well

Anthony Cole Training

Sales people have to prospect! At least that was the case in 1983 when I was selling Nautilus exercise equipment, and it still is today even as president of Anthony Cole Training Group. I know this is not a great revelation, and you are probably wondering why I would even add this to the list of truths about sales people.

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Is Your Company Arrogant?

Score More Sales

In a world with most of us remotely communicating with customers, former customers, and prospective ones, we don’t have the ability to really read someone’s face or judge their body language – all the more reason to employ some version of video communication with your clients.

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“The Joy Of Selling…,” Have We Lost It?

Partners in Excellence

” Whether it’s bad prospecting, bad Social Channel interactions, bad selling, weak sales management, ineffective training, and so forth. I had a single very large account, my job was to prospect within that account, finding new opportunities to sell and grow our relationship. I struggled a moment.

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Relationships Always Rule [Q4 Referral Selling Roundup]

No More Cold Calling

That’s what a client asked me a couple years ago, and I was baffled by his revelation. We get so busy prospecting and working heads-down on new client projects, that we neglect our current clients. If virtual sales training was ever needed, this was the time. Now I know why, because I’ve been guilty of it myself.

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You Can’t “Just Call It In” To Win In Cold Calling

The Pipeline

Having trained hundreds of sales people in effective telephone prospecting, I have witnessed a number of recurring patterns which impact success, both negatively and positively. Coming out of the training most will apply what they learned quit literally, almost religiously. By Tibor Shanto - tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca .

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Our Success Is Based On The Misery Of Our Customers!

Partners in Excellence

A lot of my early training in sales taught me to focus on “finding the pain.” I think the challenge too many sales people face is they are calling on happy customers and prospects. So crass as it seems, revel in your customers’ misery and pain. It has to eliminate or reduce their misery or pain.

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“Why I’m So Interested In Selling,” Charles Green

Partners in Excellence

He loves responding to the worst possible prospecting emails possible. After a few years, it became clear that at some not-too-distant point, I would have to start selling – a prospect that did not thrill me. I tried my hand at the bloodless side of the business, writing reports and letters to prospects.