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Sales Start Where Marketing Ends

Sales Start Where Marketing Ends

Cold Calling.  The brief mention of this subject will create a rise in people. The type of reaction you get from a salesperson is “it’s part of the game” and I agree.  For the others, meaning the people receiving the call is typically one of contempt, disgust and general frustration- myself included.  For the record I hate [...]

How to Handle Sales Objections

How to Handle Sales Objections

How often have you left a sales meeting (or sales pitch) beating yourself up for not closing the deal when it was well within our reach? And then begins the process of guilt, self- condemnation and intense scrutiny of our actions. Our minds overload with thoughts of all the things we should’ve said and all [...]

How to Influence the Sales Process

How to Influence the Sales Process

As some of you may know for the past several years I have been teaching the Martial Arts, one of the topics I focus on is how to talk yourself out of a bad situation.  Some people may know this under a different name, verbal de-escalation. The trick to effective verbal de-escalation is to use empathy.  Granted [...]