Sales/Prospecting
What is the difference between sales and marketing?
What does a salesperson do anyway?
What resources do you need to sell?
Do you have a "sales personality?"
Where do I find customers?
What do customers want anyway?
How wide is your network?
This is no time for being shy (overcoming "stage fright")
Do you listen enough to sell?
Can you recognize "buying signals?"
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Practical Benefits of Better Listening for Sales People
In spite of what many business owners believe, the role of a salesperson is not exclusively to present or to cajole, convince, or persuade prospects into becoming customers in a
uni-directional communication.
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Seven Keys To Better Listening
Salespeople have often been criticized for not listening to what is being said to or asked of them. The knock against them is that the salesperson is more focused on TELLING than on SELLING. MORE
     
How to Listen (Attentive Listening Skills)
In most cases, you will want to solve a problem for your prospect, demonstrate your product or service, or in some other way take control of the conversation and assume the role of expert. To do so is to invite a sale that COULD have been yours to flee to your competition. MORE
 
     
     
Recommended Links

You Just Don’t Understand by Deborah Tannen

People Styles at Work by Robert Bolton and Dorothy Grover Bolton

Listening FlowChart

Essential Listening Skills Self Study Exercises

 
 
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