In Module 1 alone you will learn:
Strategy 1: Understand the Timeless Truth About Sales: It's All About Money*
- What you are really selling
- Why it's important to know how your clients count their money
- Where to get outside information about publicly and privately held companies
- How to get inside information from key personnel
Strategy 2: Learn to See Things Objectively*
- How to achieve both the inward- and outward-focused objectivity necessary for sales success
- How sales winners assess their own skills, attitudes and behaviors
- The risks associated with wishful thinking
- Four critical keys to successful selling
- New business behaviors worth the risk of trying
- The real story behind one decision-making process
Strategy 3: Get into Shape for Selling Bigger*
- The four types of skills, attitudes and behaviors all sales professionals need to develop and to maintain
- Four categories of magazines and the websites you need to visit regularly
- How to develop your own research tools
- How to differentiate yourself and build credibility with your prospects' C-level executives after you gain access
- Tactics for building the executive demeanor you need to sell to C-level executives
Strategy 4: Enhance Your Communication Skills*
- How buyers pigeonhole sales people and what you need to be seen as credible
- How to increase the effectiveness of your e-mail and voice mail communications with customers and clients
- Tips to improving written and oral communication skills
- E-mail and voicemail as avoidance
- The importance of listening and what to listen for
- How to become proficient at asking the questions that will move you ahead in the sales process
Strategy 5: Transform Yourself from a Salesperson into a Businessperson*
- Why executives don't like to buy from salespeople
- Eight behaviors and traits of sales winners who are businesspeople
- How to get the information you need to provide business value to your prospects' executives
- Questions you need to ask yourself before your customer does
- The most important element of business know-how
Strategy 6: Become an Expert in the Industry into Which You Sell*
- Why the vertical market approach has never been more important
- Four basic approaches to becoming knowledgeable about your prospective buyers
- How "selling in the well" will make you more successful
- Eight benefits of selling within a niche
Strategy 7: Get into a Competitive State of Mind*
- Why you need to get into a competitive state of mind
- The two questions you must ask yourself every day to protect your livelihood
- How to sensitize yourself to competitors' activities
- How to stay ethical and still win in today's sometimes-unfair competitive battles