Sales help in the form of tips, ideas, and secrets.
Everything has to be sold. Even good ideas. If you want to have others benefit from the things you know, the ideas that you have, and the causes you support, you have to sell. Free sales help is at hand.
Since January 2020 I have been posting daily on LinkedIn. My posts come from the accumulated wisdom that I have collected in my life. Many represent the learning and work of others. As Newton said, "I stand on the shoulders of giants".
Never miss a post: Email myposts@salessense.co.uk for notifications.
Since LinkedIn is a 'happening now' place, I want to provide access to past posts that in a few short days or weeks, are pushed too far down the LinkedIn stack to be seen.
So here are my favourites:
The campaign approach - LinkedIn invitation.
Sales prospecting email psychology
What to say in a sales voicemail.
Sales Prospecting - the campaign approach.
How to get introduced by someone whom you do know.
How to get introduced by someone whom you don't know.
The social selling 'Get Introduced' system - part 4
The social selling 'Get Introduced' system - part 3.
The social selling 'Get Introduced' system shortcut.
The social selling 'Get Introduced' system - part 1.
Sales prospecting with or without LinkedIn?
The most reliable way to start more sales conversations.
How will you fill the top of your sales funnel?
How much time should you spend generating sales leads?
How to set a sales prospecting target.
What are the top three customer problems that you fix?
Find out how the problems you solve, manifest - 3
Putting yourself on your customer's team - 2
Sales brilliance - what we have covered and still have to address.
How to get around an intimediary.
What do you do to move a sales opportunity along?
How do you keep track of your sales leads and opportunities?
Which of these steps are part of your customers' typical buying process?
What should you do first - define your sales process or choose a CRM system?
Trial close testing questions - 15
Relationship testing questions - 14
Hypothetical testing questions - 13
Elliminate mistakes with testing questions - 12
Use rhetorical questions to plant ideas - 11
Make it their idea with planting questions - 10
Steering question examples and an exercise - 9
Initiating question preparation and examples - 8
How to keep New Year resolutions.
Overt and covert question styles - 7
Mirroring for rapport and better answers - 6
Using sensory language to increase rapport - 5
Matching for rapport and better answers - 4
How to build trust quickly in a conversation - 3
What to do when you get closed answers to open questions - 2
The questioning skills that you never knew were needed - 1.
Sales Methods for Every Stage of the Sales Process
Integrating the Customers Buying Process with the Sales Process
How to Develop Better Sales Methods
Sales Brilliance - People Reading Skills
Putting things in Perspective and Managing Response for Mental Toughness
Mental Toughness through a Pledge, Vow, or Oath
How to Increase Mental Toughness - Healthy Living
Mental Toughness from Realistic Practise
Using Stress Exposure to Increase Mental Toughness
How to Increase Mental Toughness - Anticipation and Preparation
Visualise to Increase Mental Toughness
Learn from Everything to Increase Mental Toughness
How to Increase Mental Toughness by Choosing Helpful Attitudes
How to Increase Mental Toughness with Clear Goals
How to Increase Mental Toughness by Getting Emotions Under Control
Using a Positive Internal Narrative to Increase Mental Toughness
How to Increase Mental Toughness
Mental Toughness - Definition and Opportunity
What it takes to be Brilliant in Sales - Reader Choices
What it Takes to be Brilliant in Sales
Sales Qualification - Qualifying Customer Competence
Sales Qualification - Qualifying the Competition
Sales Qualification - Qualifying the Approvers
Sales Qualification - Qualifying the Decision Criteria
Sales Qualification - Qualifying the Evaluation Plan
Sales Qualification - Qualifying the Business Case
Sales Qualification - Qualifying Decision Makers and Influencers
Sales Qualification - Pressure Forcing Action
Sales Suspect Pre Qualification
Sales Brilliance - Discovery Qualification
Cultural Intelligence 10 - Review
Cultural Intelligence 9 - Trust
Cultural Intelligence 8 - Achievement
Cultural Intelligence 7 - Rules
Cultural Intelligence 6 - Time
Cultural Intelligence 5 - Communication
Cultural Intelligence 4 - Risk
Cultural Intelligence 3 - Power
Cultural Intelligence 2 - Identity
Cultural Intelligence 1 - Definition
Sales brilliance - Intrinsic Motivators 4
Sales Brilliance - Intrinsic Motivtors 3
Sales Brilliance - Intrinsic Motivtors 2
Sales Brilliance - Intrinsic Motivators 1
Sales Brilliance Aspects Contributed
What Does it Take to be brilliant in Sales?
Use a Sprint to Win a New Customer
Project Sprints - How They Help Get Things Done
How to Transform Ideas into Innovations
Creative Tactics for Brilliant Ideas 3
Creative Tactics for Brilliant Ideas 2
Creative Tactics for Brilliant Ideas 1
Oh No! Voicemail - What do you Say?
Simple Steps to Set Up a Cold Outreach System
Set Up a Sales Prospecting System
Even the MOst Driven Person Needs Downtime
Reasons for Questions Offered by Yesterday's Commenters
Can Questions Cause People to Think Particular Thoughts?
When You Hear or Read a Question . . .
What Do You Do to Protect Your Health?
How to Improve Forecast Accuracy 5 - Confidence
How to Improve Forecast Accuracy 4 - Qualification Checklist
How to Improve Forecast Accuracy 3 - Stage Percentage
How to Improve Forecast Accuracy 2 - Process Alignment
How to Improve Forecast Accuracy 1 - The Buying Process
Is Sales Forecasting an Art or a Science?
How Agility Addresses Ambiguity (VUCA)
How Understanding Supersedes Uncertainty (VUCA)
How Vision Mitigates Volatility (VUCA)
Is Your World VUCA - Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous?
Forced Learning - Can it Work?
What are the Best Things to Say in a Sales Letter?
Set Yourself Apart With a Sales Letter
What is the Best Way to Find New Customers?
Do you get sales approaches that are off the mark?
How Do You Feel About Cold Calling?
Story Lessons from 'Save The Cat' by Blake Snyder
Create Compelling 25-word Sales Stories
Never Make a Point Without Telling a Story
Never Tell a Story Without Making a Point
As Stephen Covey Put it, "Put First Things First"
Why Do Things Always Take Longer than You Think they Will?
How to Reduce the Cost of Selling
Is Your Cost of Selling Rising?
How Do You Start a Conversation With a Sales Suspect?
If You Had Bread to Sell and a List of Hungry People
Aristotle's Pillars of Persuasion
Do You Keep Track of Contact Events?
What Sayings and Principles Guide You?
How is What You Sell, Different?
Do You Look People Up Before You Meet or Speak?
What Goes On Inside the Minds of Senior Executives?
Do You Think that You Should be Selling More?
How to Overcome Your Greatest Sales Challenge
How to Use Strategy in Any Competitive Scenario
How Do You Use the Term, Strategy?
How Consultants, Experts, and Trainers Add Value
Everything that You Want to Know, Almost
Where Can You Get a 100% Return on Investment Today?
What Should Be a Salesperson's Virtues?
Types of Proof that Your Stuff Does What You Claim
How to Be Better Prepared for Recovery
How Do Customers Decide what to Buy?
People Often Say that Motivation Doesn't Last
What are the Worst Sales Habits?
Do Any of These Business Scenarios Resonate?
Have Clive Miller facilitate or lead an online session on any of the topics or issues raised in these sales help posts. Call +44 (0)1392 851500 or email jimm@salessense.co.uk for details.
