4 Changes To Make To Save Your Sales Life

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Sales is an amazing business.  As a sales executive myself and as the lead Sales Training World coach, I live and breathe sales every day just like you.  Sales will feed your family for many years to come, if you adapt and evolve.  If you live for yesterday, you will die tomorrow.  This is why continuous sales training is so important to you and your entire sales team. 

Those that want to buy from you are growing tired of your “needs assessments” and your “open ended questions” and your “soft close techniques.”  The sales “tricks” of the past are just not working any more and you need to stop selling this way. Period.  So, what do you do?  Easy.  Well, sort of easy. Create great conversations with great clients where you pitch great products and get your clients great results.   

4 Sales Changes to You Need to Make

  1. Create great conversations.  This idea is all about having a plan for prospecting.  My Big 50 prospecting plan is focused on myself working 50 new clients to set 10 great meetings within 30 days.  From those 10 meetings I will secure bye-in from 8 clients and close 4 deals quickly.  I always promise not to waste my client’s time and to come to them with a great idea that will improve their business.  This idea is core to my sales training plan of attack.    
  2. Talk to great clients.  This idea is all about setting meetings with the perfect client for myself.  Not random clients, where I hope for a deal.  This is a waste of my time and the client’s time.  I have a six point checklist that each client must match before I ever call them as a prospect.  For example…   
    1. Do I have a connection point via LinkedIN or in my community?
    2. Do I know who the decision maker is?
    3. Does their company size match my ideal client?
    4. Is it obvious that they have a need for what I am selling?
    5. Are they working with my competitor?
    6. Do I have any type of inside track to the client?   
  3. Pitch great products on the spot.  Consultative selling is still alive, but now more than ever; I am coming to the client meeting with ideas ready to present.  The days of gathering information to then chase down the client are gone.  Clients expect sales executives to come to the meeting ready to roll with ideas to solve their problems.  Use the data at your fingertips and your industry expertise to come ready to go with great ideas.  Sure, you may need to tweak your ideas, but coming with nothing is just not acceptable to the buyers of today. 
  4. Offering great results is all about return on investment.  But, are you being held to a standard that is to high?  Perhaps?  Did you check your clients expectations from the get go?  How are you at managing your clients expectations?  Are you providing reporting or results on a predetermined basis?  What is your ROI management plan?  You need to have one in place.  You need to execute on the plan.  No ROI, no future deals.

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Create great conversations with great clients where you pitch great products and get your clients great results.   

All four of these sales training points are about hosting meetings where you have great conversations with your clients.  No amount of sales tricks will replace having quality conversations with your clients.  I sell each and every day just like you.  I have read literally hundreds of sales books.  What I am noticing is that most sales trainers are not updating their sales strategies to work on millennial buyers.  Buyers born after 1984 are awesome, but they come with a certain expectation. 

  1. Don’t waste my time.
  2. Be relevant.
  3. Come ready to roll.
  4. Do your research in advance.
  5. Prove to me that what you say will happen. 

Sales is an amazing business.  It will feed your family for many years to come if you adapt and evolve.  If you live for yesterday, you will die tomorrow. 

–Ryan

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Ryan Dohrn, CEO of Brain Swell Media LLC

Ryan Dohrn is an Emmy award winning TV producer, has overseen over 3,000 Web site builds, is a nationally acclaimed speaker, has been featured in USA Today, on ABC, CBS and FOX TV stations, on Forbes.com and has personally impacted millions of dollars in online and related media revenues for media companies large and small.