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Is sales success in the DNA?

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Is sales success in the DNA? For years I have assumed great sprinters just had DNA that I did not have. While there certainly is truth to this, it’s only a partial truth. In recovering from a recent injury, I trained under Tony Santos who has worked with the Washington Commanders, the Wizards, and several current college stars. He pointed out to me that the.

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Put Some Snot In Your Potatoes

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Put Some Snot In Your Potatoes I’ve said before that sales negotiations are a game, and one of the most common plays a buyer has is the flinch: you state the price and they almost fall out of their chair. A client once told me she had just been to negotiating training for buyers and showed me eight pages of material dedicated to the flinch. Read more The post Put Some Snot In Your Potatoes appeared first on Software Sales Gurus.

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Don’t Give Away the Deal at the End

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Don’t Give Away the Deal at the End Salespeople can invest months building value slowly with a customer, only to give it away in an instant at the end of the sales cycle when a savvy buyer flinches at the price tag. If a salesperson believes the buyer has the money, and thus all the leverage, they offer unilateral concessions in order to get a.

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Is your ego stopping you from making a sale?

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Is your ego stopping you from making a sale? One of the key tenets of my Sales Star Coaching Model is that a person’s current beliefs dictate the outcomes they will achieve. The idea is that the belief (sales = pitching) causes a person to act a certain way (lead with a pitch) and to get a certain result (buyers are not forthcoming because they. Read more The post Is your ego stopping you from making a sale?

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A New Normal in Sales

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A New Normal in Sales A newly hired executive sat in on a sales call as part of his onboarding. He said, “This customer was very forthcoming. Far beyond normal. They told us everything. Pain. Cost of doing nothing. Their exact list of decision criteria. Budget. Process.” The call was recorded and we reviewed it with the sales team. The new team member thought he.

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3 Ways to Excite Your Buyers

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3 Ways to Excite Your Buyers Most prospects are content to stay with the status quo because the personal risk associated with attempting change looms large. This is especially true if the need they have is something technical, like the monitoring of logs or single sign on. Intellectually they know things could be improved, but this is not a visceral or emotional pain point for.

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Do you understand FOFIP?

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Do you understand FOFIP? A common sales strategy these days is to use FOMO (fear of missing out) as a catalyst to make something happen. What we don’t often talk about is FOFIP (fear of failing in public). People are more afraid of failing than they are of spiders. In fact, fear of failure is the number one reason people don’t try new things. This. Read more The post Do you understand FOFIP?

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