{"id":3582,"date":"2009-12-20T08:46:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T13:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37d57f8fa2.nxcli.io\/blog\/?p=3582"},"modified":"2009-12-17T09:22:25","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T14:22:25","slug":"sales-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/sales\/sales-success\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret To Sales Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Shirley told me she sometimes felt like a lioness hunting big game in Africa. When she needed business she went out and found it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Then after she closed the sale and got that big commission check, she sat back and rested. Like the lioness who lays down after a successful hunt, rolls over on her back, and takes a long nap.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When the lioness is hungry she begins hunting for food again. And that&#8217;s what Shirley does. When she needs some business, she goes out and looks for it.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Because she doesn&#8217;t keep her pipeline full, she&#8217;s living a feast or famine existence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Don&#8217;t let this happen to you. Look for new opportunities each and every day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Keep your pipeline filled and you&#8217;ll eliminate the feast\/famine syndrome.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Prospect, Prospect, Prospect<br \/>\n<\/strong>Keeping your pipeline filled is an end result. There&#8217;s something you need to have in order to do this: PROSPECTS.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Wear your prospecting cap all day long. You need to consistently add new prospects to your database and identify those who may be interested in purchasing your products or services.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You need to have a system of separating those prospects who are &#8220;really&#8221; interested from those that ask lots of questions, have you jump through hoops, but never buy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There&#8217;s a difference between calling on a brand new lead &#8211; someone who you have never spoken to before; and someone you&#8217;ve been calling on for months, or years, but has never bought.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The new lead energizes you and keeps you on your toes. And when you&#8217;re calling on an older lead, come up with a new idea to talk about. Try to turn this &#8216;old&#8217; call into a FRESH call.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Get On The Phone &#8211; Every Day!<\/strong><br \/>\nTo become a huge success, get on the phone every day. Set targets for yourself. How many people do you want to call each day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ten? 20? 30?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But this means getting on the phone EVERY DAY. It&#8217;s easy to get your calls in when you&#8217;ve a light schedule. But it&#8217;s harder to do when you&#8217;ve appointments scheduled for the entire day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So schedule an appointment with yourself &#8211; and write it on your calendar &#8211; to get on the phone every day and make your calls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For this to work, you must have a large list of prospects. You need to be calling different people each day. This isn&#8217;t going to work if you&#8217;ve only 30 leads and call the same 30 people on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yes, you dialed the phone 150 times, but you called the same 30 people, five times each. A better way is to have 150 leads, and call each of them once.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The Secret Of Sales Success<br \/>\n<\/strong>Sales success is very easy when you get the simple things done. The challenge is to do those &#8220;simple&#8221; things exceptionally well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Do the following and do them exceptionally well:<br \/>\n1. Find more prospects.<br \/>\n2. Get on the phone and schedule meetings with them.<br \/>\n3. Ask some great questions.<br \/>\n4. Find out what they want and need.<br \/>\n5. Deliver value and quality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Keep your pipeline full, you&#8217;ll close lots of sales, and become a H-U-G-E success.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8211; <em>Jeffrey<\/em><\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 159px; text-align: left;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"8\" cellpadding=\"8\" width=\"450\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"450\" valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#ececec\">Reprinted with permission from &#8220;Jeffrey Mayer&#8217;s SucceedingInBusiness.com Newsletter. (Copyright, 2003 &#8211; 2005, Jeffrey J. Mayer, SucceedingInBusiness.com.) 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