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Sales: Practical Techniques

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Overview

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Learn key techniques and practices for being an effective salesperson. Discover how to build rapport, understand a client's needs, prescribe a solution, and close a sale.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
1. Understanding Sales
  • Staying on the sales tightrope
  • Prescribing, not selling
2. Building a Sales Relationship
  • Introduction: Building a sales relationship
  • Do you need to be liked?
  • First impressions and body language
  • Make me feel important
  • Being a great listener
  • The sales-questioning funnel
  • Four types of people
  • Delight factor
3. Diagnosing the Sale
  • Introduction: Diagnosing the sale
  • Finding out their needs
  • Building their needs
  • Get them to say it
4. Prescribing a Solution
  • Introduction: Prescribing a solution
  • The difference between features and benefits
5. Handling Objections
  • Introduction: Handling objections
  • Can objections be a good thing for sales?
  • Feel, felt, found
  • Preparation is the key to sales
  • Overcoming the "It's too expensive" objection
6. Closing Sales
  • Introduction: Closing sales
  • The principle of closing
  • The words to use when closing
  • Keeping the ball in your court
7. Efficiency and Measurement in Sales
  • Introduction: Efficiency and measurement in sales
  • Seven essential principles of sales efficiency
  • The science of sales measurement
Conclusion
  • Thank you

Taught by

Chris Croft

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