Archive for January, 2012

02
Jan

The Smart First Step of the Sales Process Through Sales Training

Like so many things we learn on all types of training courses to improve our skills, sales is no different. The answer to the old age question of ‘are salespeople born or taught’ in my opinion is obvious. .

Day in and day out the skills of sales are taught successfully to thousands of delegates on sales training courses throughout the country. I would not dispute in any way that certain people have a natural ability to communicate with other people and influence them in their decision making, and we would then assume they would make good salespeople. However that is not necessarily correct all the time, neither is it correct that these people whom we believe are excellent communicators do not need to attend sales training courses.

01
Jan

SMM 2 | 3 Proven Sales Management Techniques To Establish Trust With Your Salespeople

On this week’s episode of Sales Management Mastery we’re going to talk about what’s in it for you to placing deposits in the trust account, plus three proven methods to establish trust with your salespeople so that you can drive your company’s sales revenues. Today we’re going to talk to you about the shear importance of why this is such a critical part of your overall sales management strategy. Whether or not you are a new sales manager, a tenured sales manager, a business owner listening to this, who has a bunch of sales managers that report to you, VP of Sales, CEO, establishing trust with your front line salespeople is important with your front line sales people is a part of good sales leadership but also great sales motivation, and everything sort of flows from it. And it’s the first thing that you need to do is establish that trust or re-establish it. On this show we are going to give you three proven techniques that will allow you not only to re-establish or establish trust so that you can drive your company’s sales revenue.

And our real goal here is to give you some honest, straight forward techniques and strategies that really do work. Everything that we’re really going to be talking about on this show really comes back to this basic foundation of trust. And think about it as you are building a house. Trust is the foundation. You can’t really build the house, and start putting up walls, or doing any other work on the house, unless you have a strong foundation first. So you have to dig it out, pour the foundation, and that’s really what the trust account is all about.