Professional Sales: Panning For Gold

I’ve written before about my beliefs on prospecting and the symbiotic relationship between professional sales and the gold miners of the 1800’s. But, this past week while vacationing with my family in Colorado and Arizona, I was again struck by the similarities between what we do and what those miners of yesteryear did day in and day out. Because aren’t we just panning for gold?

Sales Tips: Expert Negotiations

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The U.S. must be the only country where haggling is not a part of daily deals. Today’s video blog takes a look at how to be professional in your negotiations. Remember

Not every sale is good. Profitable sales are good sales.” Butch Bellah

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4. Video Inspiration: How Big Is YOUR Frying Pan? (10.7)
5. Video Blog: Using A Top Ten List (10.1)

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5 Secret Sales Skills Every Sales Pro Needs

I know your boss thinks you are Superman or Wonder Woman sometime, right? Hey, it comes with the territory. But, in all honesty there are some secret sales skills—some almost superhuman powers each sales pro must posses.

Sales Tips: Expert Preparation

Today’s video blog takes you through the preparation needed to be a true professional salesperson. Remember

If you’re prepared to succeed, success shouldn’t surprise you!” Butch Bellah

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So You Got Your First Sales Job

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Your First Sales Job

So, you got your first sales job! Congratulations and welcome to the greatest profession on the planet. You are joining a long list of some of the most influential people in the world of business—all who started out in sales.

How To Answer, “Your Price Is Too High”

ORIGINAL SOURCE If you’ve been in sales longer than half-an-hour you’ve probably heard this from a prospective customer when you asked for the order.

Salespeople: You’re The Teacher and Your Customers are Your Classroom

I have news for you: if you’re in sales, you are a teacher and your customers are your classroom. While there are many ways one can interpret that statement, let me clarify what I mean and I think you’ll agree.

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As salespeople a lot of times we have a group of varied group of customers. They run the gamut—and in many ways they’re like a classroom of children with us having to sit at the head of the classroom as the teacher.

Confession Time: My Strongest Weakness

Whether we like to face them head on sometime, we all have weaknesses. While I know we’d rather focus on our strengths it’s important to know where our weaknesses are. Everybody has them and I’m going to “pull back the curtain” and share mine with you today. Hopefully, it will inspire you to do a little self-reflection of your own.

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I talk too much.

There I said it. Something everyone in my life has known since I was born. I’ve admitted. As a salesperson (and supposedly a good one), that is a terrible trait. However, I honestly believe I’ve found a way to separate it from my selling life and the rest of my life.

Why Is The New Guy Outselling Me?

How many times have we seen the new guy come in to an organization and outsell all the “old hands”. Beginner’s luck, they call it.

Nope.

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I call it something else: doing it the right way.

Too many times what happens is as we get used to a process—or the steps to a sales, we start to take shortcuts. “I think I can skip this part” or “It won’t matter if I don’t do this this time”. Well, yes it does matter. And over time, you get out of the habit of doing thing the way you were taught—the way you did them when you started.

Video Inspiration: How Big Is YOUR Frying Pan?

Video Inspiration: How Big Is YOUR Frying Pan?
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One of the most popular written blogs ever is now a great video blog! Enjoy!

Sales Power Tips: How Big Is Your Frying Pan? from Butch Bellah on Vimeo.

What Social Selling Is NOT!

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One of the biggest buzz words/phrases to hit professional sales in years is social selling. While many believe they know what it means, I find many to be a bit confused.

Why Your Business Will Fail

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I've got some news for you and this may or may not come as a surprise, but your business will fail not because you’re not good at what you do. More than likely the reason why your business will fail is because you’re not good at sales and marketing.

The Power of The Mastermind

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In Think and Grow Rich Publisher: Ballantine Books Think and Grow Rich Napoleon Hill define the Mastermind or “Master Mind” as, “Coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people, for the attainment of a definite purpose.”

The Power of The Mastermind

Have you ever really participated in a mastermind session? If not, you should.

I’ve been blessed to be involved in several with some brilliant minds and had the opportunity last week to be in one with Mark Victor Hansen, his lovely wife Crystal and about 16 other people. It was truly a once-in-a-lifetime chance to sit around in an intimate setting and talk to a man who has sold a a half-billion books and is generally regarded as one of the greatest philantropists and speakers our time.

Why I Love Selling And You Should, Too

I was doing an interview recently and was asked why I love selling so much. I’m not sure I’d ever been asked the question in that way, but the answer was easy for me. While there’s no one, single reason I know exactly I enjoy it so much, there is definitely reasons.

Why I Love Selling And You Should, Too

First, it gives me a tremendous amount of personal satisfaction to help others. Call me naive, but I still see the value of helping others as the main reason to sell anything. As I train salespeople, it’s amazing sometimes to see their results change as they shift their thinking from “me, me, me” to “what’s best for the customer?”

Voice mail Tips: After The Tone, Please Don’t Leave A Message

Today’s guest post: Voice mail Tips: After The Tone, Please Don’t Leave A Message is  from Adam Honig, Spiro Technologies

After The Tone, Please Don’t Leave A Message

After the Tone, Please Don’t Leave a Message

Let’s be honest, this is what you’d really like to say on your personal voice mail recording, right?  You hate getting voicemails. We hate getting voicemails. Your prospects hate getting voicemails. Everyone hates voicemails.

It takes valuable time out of your day to dial through the phone system just to hear someone ramble on a message that you could have read in seconds via text or e-mail. I am sure there are ignored messages on most people’s phones.  In fact, there are three of them sitting here unheard on my phone right now.

5 Myths About Sales

Today I want to talk about some common myths about sales and world of professional selling. There seems to be a lot of misinformation, myths and misunderstandings about professional salespeople and what we do for a living. Now, I want to emphasize professional salesperson because I think there is a huge difference between a salesperson and a professional salesperson.

5 Myths About Sales

Some of these myths may be applicable to an average salesperson, but they certainly don’t apply to a professional salesperson.

1. You’re a born salesman: Totally incorrect. Everything a professional salesperson does is a learned skill and it’s a skillset they have to keep learning, growing and honing throughout their entire career. It’s just like any other profession where you have to have continuing education and get better at what you do. There are new techniques, new strategies and new ways of communicating with prospects, buyers and customers a professional has to constantly be keeping pace with. There is always something new to learn and the professional salesperson is always learning. They understand nobody is born a salesman.

What Social Selling Is NOT!

One of the biggest buzz words/phrases to hit professional sales in years is social selling. While many believe they know what it means, I find many to be a bit confused.

What Social Selling Is NOT!

Instead of defining what social selling is, why don’t we take a moment and see what is is not:

Social selling is not autopilot: It is not designed for you to put all your sales efforts on auto and move along with your marketing efforts. Inbound marketing, social selling—all of those things still require you to interact with, understand and solve a need or want for your customer.

Social selling is not a salesperson: I had a sales manager many years ago call it b2b: belly-to-belly. While you may not meet every customer face-to-face, social selling will not replace the interaction of a professional salesperson.

Sales Tips: Before Quitting Your Job Do These 8 Things

I understand. You've been in sales for a while either by choice or because you were forced into the profession after losing a job in your chosen field. Whatever the case, things aren’t going as planned and you’re ready to throw in the towel.

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Do me (and you) a favor: before you do that, try these eight simple sales tips. Unfortunately, you’re probably the victim of a lack of training that’s not your fault. If that’s the case you definitely need to give this a shot before moving on. It could be the difference between success and failure in the sales profession.