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Successful Selling Solutions

This book goes beyond mere sales techniques: using self-assessment models, it shows you how to monitor your progress in an actual sales project against where you need to be and includes templates, tables and exercises.

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Overview

Many books simply list prescribed techniques and leave the reader to interpret them. What makes this book different is that it provides clear, practical advice on every aspect of making a sale, but you’ll also find much more: templates, tables, exercises and stimulating ideas to develop your sales techniques and monitor your progress in each particular sale. Every chapter ends with a summary, key points and coaching advice on developing a particular part of the sales cycle.

If you’ve ever found yourself thinking ‘How can I be sure to maximise my chances of success?’ – this book is for you.

Content

Introduction

  • Factors that will affect your level of success
  • Topic reference table
  • Coaching
  • Glossary of sales terms

Chapter one: Preparation and sales development

  • Introduction
  • Your products and your competitors
  • Recording sales-call information
  • Forecasting future sales
  • Other sales models

Chapter two: Targeting new accounts

  • Background information on a target account
  • Differentiating yourself from your competitors
  • Written introduction techniques
  • Examples of introductory letters 54

Chapter three: Telephone and personal introductions

  • Introductory telephone techniques
  • Cold calling on the telephone
  • Overcoming objections on the telephone
  • Common telephone objections
  • Key questions

Chapter four: Turning interest into commitment

  • Questioning and listening
  • Having a structure
  • Advanced questioning techniques

Chapter five: Developing a sale correctly

  • Ensuring that you have ‘genuine’ commitment
  • Presenting the benefits of your solution
  • Other sales development factors 118
Chapter six: The presentation

  • Presentations and demonstrations
  • Preparing presentation material
  • Informal and formal presentations
  • You – the presenter
Chapter seven: The sales proposal

  • Establishing that you are at the proposal stage
  • Difference between quotations, proposals and tenders
  • Structuring a quotation and a proposal
  • Proposal to IT Marketing Limited

Chapter eight: Negotiation

  • Bargaining or negotiation?
  • Setting out your objectives
  • The principles of negotiation
  • Understanding the person you are selling to 187
Chapter nine: Closing the sale

  • Different types of ‘Close’
  • Buying signals and overcoming objections
  • Good closing techniques

      Chapter ten: Managing your accounts and your sales performance

      • Managing target accounts and relationships
      • Developing an account strategy
      • Gaining an advantage
      • Analysing your sales performance
      The 10 do’s and don’ts of successful selling

      Reviews

      ‘Innovative and extremely beneficial to our performance both in terms of skill sets but particularly in increasing confidence levels within our teams of sales people.’

      Andrew Pendrigh, Director, James McNaughton Group

      ‘One of those rare people in sales… knows what has made him successful and is able to transfer these skills to others.’
      Andrew Mills, Sales Director, Applied Optical Technologies

      ‘Julian Clay is a master of the selling process. By coupling powerful questioning techniques with his sales forecasting method we have revolutionised our sales process.’

      Lawrie Siteman, Managing Director, IDS Group

      Author

      Julian Clay

      Julian Clay is a Management Consultant specialising in selling techniques. After a successful career with Kodak, he developed his own consultancy. His clients have included the James McNaughton Group, ICI, Racal, Gillette and Novartis. He is co-author of The Sales Manager’s Desktop Guide, also published by Thorogood.

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      Paperback ISBN-10: 1 85418 242 0
      ISBN-13: 978 185418242 5
      Pages: 272
      GBP 14.99
      EUR 17.99
      USD 24.95
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      Hardback ISBN-10: 1 85418 298 6
      ISBN-13: 978 185418298 2
      Pages: 272
      GBP 22.99
      EUR 27.99
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