If you want to sell more, more often, dig deep to unearth your buyer’s needs. Generally stated Buyer needs are the problems your Buyer wants to resolve, and the resulting improved situation they desire. You knew that already, right? Where to from here? For each sales opportunity there are in fact three levels of buyer […]
Funny term, ‘Sales Velocity’. What does it mean, and why is so important to you as a person in business development? Sales Velocity is the speed at which your deals close. Faster is better [I know, you figured that out already]. The more deals you can close in a week, month, quarter, or year, the […]
We are in the business of helping our buyers fix their problems. We do this by providing great solutions. A great solution is the currency of the realm in business development and an astute seller can artfully describe the richness of their capabilities in this domain. It would seem that those who can solve problems […]
There is an old saying in sales that goes, “Your customer is not buying a power drill, they are buying the holes.” If old sayings become old sayings because they contain pithy wisdom, what is the wisdom here? It is that Buyers don’t buy features, they buy the benefits those features deliver. But I think […]
Ideas in this posting will help you: Make Money, and increase the ease with which you Close Business. I am privileged to spend time chatting with many business people who carry a revenue generation responsibility. They range from Sr. Executives, to Managers, to Key Account sales professionals. I am infinitely curious to learn how they […]
Ideas in this posting will help you: Save time in your sales process. Your Buyer: “I’m sorry, I don’t have any budget to spend right now.” You: “Oh really? I guess we will have to put this proposal on ice for now, huh?” Ouch!! If you find yourself in a sales situation playing to this […]
Ideas in this posting will help you: Make Money Life in business is sooooo good when sales are happening. Why though does it seem that sales – and the precious revenue that they generate – often comes in peaks of activity and valley’s of inactivity? Let’s look at why this happens, and how to avoid it. […]
Summer time is traditionally perceived as a slack business time by many. For the banks however, it is not. They are as busy pulling mortgage payments out of your account in July as they are in October. So, use your summer work time wisely. Do those ‘working on the business’ things now that you have […]
“There MUST be a better way to sell!”
After studying many sales methodologies and being thoroughly bamboozled by most of them I thought “there must be a better way to sell. One that is sound, effective and is easy to learn and apply.” That way is The Conversational Sales Method. In Sell More by Selling Less you will learn to master it.
I recently had an interview on the Consulting Success® Podcast where I talked about the roadmap to mastery in consulting. To listen and read the full interview click HERE
Based in Vancouver British Columbia Rob Malec has been helping his clients increase the revenue their companies generate while operating more effectively as an organization since 2001.
