Authentic Selling - Practical, Proven, Success Sales Strategies

04 Dec 2019

7 pillars of sales negotiation wisdom

Prashanth G Sales Consulting, Sales Enablement

Sales negotiation is quite easy provided one is very well prepared in the overall subject. But what most people overlook is the process part of the negotiation. There are many elements that go into the sales negotiation and it is difficult if one doesn't stick to a process. In this blog, we will list the 7 common elements of any sales negotiation. The priorities and importance of...

5 mistakes to avoid while selling innovative solutions to enterprises

Prashanth G Sales Coaching, Sales Consulting, Sales Prospecting

Recently we worked with a company that wanted to serve the education institutes with the innovative solution towards teaching in an experiential way. There is a lot of innovation that has gone into this solution to understanding current student grades, their gaps, progress. But when salespeople visited and promoted these solutions, the response wasn’t great from the teachers as well...

5 mental barriers affecting your sales success

Prashanth G Sales Consulting, Sales Management 1 Comment

Everyone in sales is looking for success, but very few are able to achieve it consistently. Why is that? There are many reasons, but primarily selling is not taught formally anywhere and many are naturally not good at sales. Also, the salespeople are under pressure that most people can't take. Selling requires to be of help, be at ease with people who have little or no wish to se...

Collaborative sales success

Prashanth G Sales Coaching, Sales Consulting

Many sales opportunities get stuck at the end of the sales process and do not close, leading to frustration for sellers. Especially in the B2B sales with all the hardwork of proposals, pilots or demo stages and presenting the commercials, some buyers catch cold-feet and delay the closing. How can this be addressed is a common question among many salespeople? One of the key rules t...

Active vs Passive Commitments

Prashanth G Sales Enablement, Sales Management, Sales Prospecting

Recently one of our clients said, many of the prospects book appointments but not many show up for consultation. What is exactly happening here? This is not just for appointments, we see many times, the sales team members commit to their next month targets, but hardly stick to it. Like this many commitments, each of us makes, but we don't stick to it. What is the reason? As per R...

How to overcome 2 biggest sales challenges

Prashanth G Sales Consulting, Sales Training

We keep meeting many companies and also salespeople. When we ask, what are their biggest challenges, 2 common challenges expressed are pricing and competition. Most buyers are challenging the salespeople on the pricing part and there is always a competitor who is out there who is willing to undercut the price to win the orders. How do sales team can handle this? Firstly ...

Evaluating a sales training company

Prashanth G Sales Coaching, Sales Consulting, Sales Enablement

Hiring any service is a challenge as there are many factors involved which are not easily quantifiable and also cannot be tried like a product. Most people try to simplify by going with referrals or known contacts. That might work at the individual level, but at an organization level what is required is to follow a process and have a clear evaluation criterion. Just like evaluat...

Sales Training: The Measure of its Success

Prashanth G Sales Enablement, Sales Training

Sales training is an integral part of the business of any company. But many organizations have doubts about the trainings because they worry about the investments not giving returns. Or the other way it is not knowing ways to measure the success of the sales training in an objective way. However, what begs to be answered is, how do most companies who continue to invest in training...

4 rules to handle b2b pricing pressure

Prashanth G Sales Consulting, Sales Management

How would you respond if your customer says any of these below? I will buy the product provided you a discount of 30% There are other players who are giving 20% less, so why should I buy from you? If you increase the price, I am planning to switch to another player I just listed 3 questions but as a salesperson, you might face many price-related questions as above. So, i...

3 mistakes companies make in implementing Sales CRM

Prashanth G Sales Coaching, Sales Consulting, sales CRM, Sales Enablement, Uncategorized

Do you have a plan to implement Sales CRM in your organization or if you are using Sales CRM already, then keen to know how to improve the ROI? Then from our studies as well as interacting with companies who have successfully implemented the sales CRM, there are 3 common mistakes to be avoided. Not having a sales CRM Strategy The 1st biggest mistake is to roll out sales CRM with...

How to become a preferred supplier in a competitive market

Prashanth G Sales Consulting, sales CRM, Sales Management

Recently one of our client who is into selling Auto component solutions wanted to know how to become the preferred supplier to some of their top tier vendors. The challenge he said is the customers are defining the specifications and also giving an acceptable price range. The customers are inviting many suppliers who can match the specification the vendor has defined. Client was ke...

How to increase client rention

Prashanth G Sales Coaching, Sales Consulting, Sales Management

Can you increase price and retain your buyer?

The no.1 challenge most salespeople face in retaining their existing accounts is to keep them from switching to competitors. Due to this fear of losing customers, salespeople are always worried about communicating price increase to customers. Recently a client of ours told, " Many buyers threaten to switch to low priced competitors and hence our salespeople struggle to communicate pri...

How to build trust with buyers

Prashanth G Sales Coaching, Sales Consulting, Sales Management, Sales Prospecting

In the recent article from LinkedIn on the sales statistics, it is mentioned TRUST is the No. 1 attribute of the salesperson which is critical for B2B sales success. Here are the statistics, 51% of decision makers rank trust as the No. 1 attribute they want in a salesperson.Virtually 100% of sales professional say trust if “very important” or “important” to winning new business.88% of...

7 powerful questions to coach your team members

Prashanth G Sales Coaching, Sales Management, Sales Training

Recently one of the participants said, he is having a hard time to get consistent delivery from his team members. No one seems to own responsibility and happy when they meet 70%~80% target. I am not very aggressive like other sales managers and I don't know what to do? I asked have you tried coaching the team members weekly or bi-monthly? He said, I hear a lot about coaching but I am ...

Measuring the success of sales training

Prashanth G Sales Coaching, sales CRM, Sales Enablement, Sales Management, Sales Training

When it comes to sales training initiative, measuring the success of sales training or ROI in terms of business results is not clear. This inhibits many businesses to take up sales training initiatives. Many companies we meet ask this question about sales training. Since I am investing money on this training, how do I clearly measure the impact with respect to business results such as...

3 must competencies for consultative selling

Prashanth G Sales Consulting, Sales Enablement, Sales Management

Depending on the business types, buying environment, solution types, selling and sales complexity must vary. In the article, we had mentioned 4 types of sales expertise depending on the buying environment and solution type. Just for brevity, let us put this again here, Sales people expertise vs solution type As we can see from the above 2x2 matrix when the buying envir...

Light up your B2B sales success using stories

Prashanth G Sales Coaching, sales CRM, Sales Enablement, Sales Management, Sales Training 1 Comment

What actually results in sales success? This is a difficult question and there is no one answer. Some say sales success is driven by process, structure, whereas others say sales is all about building relations. The answer lies in the combination of these. Sales is as much an art as science. Many of you, would have come across someone who in spite of not having a sales process, produc...

Knowing what your customer wants from your own teams?

Prashanth G Sales Coaching, Sales Training

Are you facing situations where you are losing business and don't know the reason? Do you wonder if you just had magic wand using which you could know what exactly your customer wants? Or wonder why the customer who used to buy stopped buying? If you are facing any of the above, there is a way to know the answer. It is fact, one of the hardest things in business is knowing what th...

Why measuring sales activities is key to sales success?

Prashanth G Sales Operations

Sales analytics is gaining popularity and most large companies with field force sales are realizing the importance of it. The definition of the sales analytics is Sales analytics is the process used to identify, model, understand and predict sales trends and sales results while helping in the understanding of these trends and finding improvement points. It i...

Sales productivity increase, what tools can help?

Prashanth G Uncategorized

Sales force automation not giving the results

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Sales Force Automation software, sales tracking tools have been some of the latest technology trends to help companies improve field sales effectiveness, sales efficiency resulting in overall sales productivity improvements. Any organization which relies on field sales force would love to have a dashboard of what is happening on sales from prospec...