Small Business Sales

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How to Handle Complex Sales for B2B Businesses

Sales processes vary significantly between Business-to-Consumer (B2C) and Business-to-Business (B2B) transactions. While B2C sales are often simple, involving a single decision-maker, B2B sales are more complex, especially when dealing with larger companies. This complexity arises because B2B transactions typically involve multiple stakeholders, each with distinct roles, priorities, and decision-making criteria. To successfully close a complex […]

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Tips to Make Successful Sales Calls

Tips to Make Successful Sales Calls

Selling to small and midsize businesses often requires reaching top executives, but gatekeepers can pose significant challenges. With thorough preparation, personalized communication, and a strategic approach—including leveraging sales team insights and respecting gatekeeper roles—you can navigate these barriers and connect with key decision-makers effectively.

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Outbound Sale

The Ultimate Sales Showdown: What You Need to Know About Inbound Vs. Outbound Sales Tactics

Inbound and Outbound Sales Are Two Distinct Approaches to Driving Revenue for a Small Business. Outbound Sales Involve Actively Seeking Out Potential Customers Through Email Outreach, Cold Calling, or Social Selling. Inbound Sales, in Contrast, Focus On Identifying and Engaging with Prospects Who Have Already Shown Interest in a Company’s Products or Services.

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Unleash Your Consulting Power: Why Being Exclusive Is Holding You Back

Many Consultants Are Hired for a Period of Time on a More or Less Full-Time Basis in Support of a Project. They Are Compensated on an Hourly or Daily Rate and Are Often Required to Show up On-Site like Regular Employees. This Is a Bad Business Model for the Consultant and the Client for Various Reasons.

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Powerful Words to Deal with Indecisive Prospects

When It Comes to Making Sales, Sometimes the Prospect Is Indecisive. As A Business Owner or Salesperson, You Want to Get the Prospect to Move the Sale Along, but Either the Prospect Comes Across as Dismissive, Saying They Know Something and You Know They Don’t, or They Are Just Fearful of Taking the Leap and Choose to Procrastinate. There Are Four Sets of Powerful Words That Every Business Owner or Salesperson Can Use to Get an Indecisive Prospect to Commit One Way or The Other.

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Powerful Words to Resurrect a Stalled Sale

When It Comes to Making Sales, Sometimes the Deal Gets Stalled for One Reason or Another. As A Business Owner or Salesperson, You Want to Get the Prospect to Move the Sale Along, but You Don’t Want to Come Across as Too Pushy or Confrontational and Risk the Deal. Here Are Two Sets of Powerful Words Every Business Owner or Salesperson Can Use to Resurrect a Stalled Sale. When Would Be a Good Time…” And “I’m Guessing That You Have Not Gotten Around To…”

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Powerful Words To Inspire Prospects to Buy

When It Comes to Making Sales, There Is a Fine Line between Coming Across as Too Pushy and Being Assertive Enough to Get a Prospect to Make a Purchase. The Following Are A Few Phrases That Every Salesperson Should Use During the Sales Process to Get a Prospect to Consider Their Offering “I’m Not Sure If It’s for You But…”, “How Open-Minded Are You About…”, “How Would You Feel If…” And “Just Imagine…”

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How to Use Sales Discovery Questions to Close More Deals

When It Comes to Sales, Too Many Small Businesses Spend Too Much Time Pitching Their Solution and Not Enough Time Listening to the Prospect. Small Businesses Need to Use Sales Discovery Questions to Control the Buyer’s Journey and Uncover Their Needs, Challenges, and Goals Before They Offer Their Solution.

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Cold Calls

How to Make Cold Calls That Will Get a Meeting with Important Prospects

Trying to Get A Meeting with That Important Prospect That You Have No History with Can Be Difficult. However, Providing Something of Value to The Prospect Before You Try to Get A Meeting with Them Shows You Have Their Best Interest in Mind and Will More Often Than Not Get You That Face-To-Face Meeting You Want.

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Influencing Styles

4 Situational Influencing Styles To Get What You Want

Effective leadership relies on your ability to influence others to accomplish your objectives. As a business owner, your success often depends on your ability to effectively influence both people over whom you have control over and people over whom you have no direct control. Not all influencing styles work in every situation. Savvy entrepreneurs will change their influencing style based on different situations.

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Negotiation

10 Step Process to Get the Best Deal in Every Negotiation

In business, we are always negotiating with suppliers, vendors, customers, and employees. The “I FORESAW IT” mnemonic is a powerful tool created by Seth Freeman that sums up what a negotiator should follow to systematically prepare for any important negotiation. Each letter reminds you of questions you want to ask yourself and then answer as part of your preparation for a negotiation.

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3 Simple Business Relationships Strategies to Get What You Want

People like to work with and buy from people that they like. However, sometimes you need them to change their direction without leaving a stink on your relationship. Here are three strategies that can be used to help you get what you want in business relationships, with the added benefit of making you come out smelling like a rose.

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How to Leverage the Similarity Principle for Better Sales

With respect to sales, the similarity principle is based on the idea that certain facts when presented during a sales presentation can serve to heighten the probability that two individuals will be drawn to each other and experience a positive outcome in their interactions. Since prospects are far more likely to buy from a salesperson that they like and trust the similarity principal is an important tool for sales professions to understand and master.

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New Rules of Marketing and Sales

New Rules of Marketing and Sales

When it comes to marketing and sales, the internet changed everything. The changes caused by the internet, and its offspring social media, have not caused an evolutionary step in the way businesses go about marketing and sales but caused a revolutionary step. The internet and social media have caused businesses to re-think their old marketing

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How to Harness the Halo Effect to Boost Profits

How to Harness the Halo Effect to Boost Profits

When it comes to marketing, small businesses should understand that psychology and sales are two parts of the same coin. From the world of psychology, one cognitive bias that a small business owner should embrace when it comes to marketing is known as “the halo effect.” Technically speaking, the halo effect is a cognitive bias

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