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Listening, questioning, negotiating, closing—today’s sales professionals need so many different selling skills to succeed. But which ones should you focus on if your sales team is a little green or if your seasoned sellers could use a refresh? Communication Communication is the most important selling skill.
What is surprising is that despite having demanding sales roles for new and existing clients, many professional services marketers have received little formal salestraining. Selling challenges in professional services: Sales processes and skills. Their fee-earners are often in the same boat.
As an AE, they’ve got a brand-new set of responsibilities: Running demos or giving presentations; identifying, surfacing, and addressing potential buying obstacles; crafting personalized value propositions; getting the commitment to purchase; and negotiating the actual terms. AEs are held to quotas.
We have a few items you should consider if you want to find success in the consultative sales process. Questions are the most critical component of consultative sales reps. However, you also need to have strong intrapersonal skills for excellent communication with a prospect.
We know that personality traits dont predict success , because charisma can only take you so far before needing interpersonalskills, and the ability to work with customers in many different environments. In fact, the top skills needed for sales can be broken down into three categories.
In fact, the skills used today to be a great salesperson go much deeper. We know that personality traits don’t predict success , because charisma can only take you so far before needing interpersonalskills, and the ability to work with customers in many different environments. Soft Skills and Traits. NegotiationSkills.
So it’s not surprising that each time I talk with my friends on the salestraining front, they tell me that the path to increasing sales is to improve selling skills. Of course, my retort is that you won’t increase sales if you don’t have the right tools to compete more efficiently and effectively.
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