Most Common Sales Training Issues:
Do you and/or your sales team struggle with the following sales training issues?
• Can’t get through to C-level people
• Not reaching decision makers
• Being outsold by the competition
• Competing mostly on price
• Sales cycle is too long
• Losing too many sales
• Losing business to low-priced competitors
• Dealing with unqualified leads
• Dealing with prospects that can’t afford your stuff
• Prospects that were “thinking it over” disappeared
• Wasting time on prospects that go nowhere
• Getting shopped around
• Inconsistent sales results
• Too busy to manage your sales load
• Salespeople aren’t closing the business
• Not prospecting enough for new opportunities
• Sales people don’t have a clear sales process
• Increased competition
• Down economy is hurting margins
• Salespeople are busy but not productive
• Sales people are professional visitors and order-takers
• Give prospects a quote never to hear from them
• Salespeople struggle to sell on value
• Lack motivation within the sales team
• Reluctant to make new sales calls
• Would be in serious trouble if lost number one client
• Not sure what to say in sales meetings
• Tend to speak most of the time in sales meetings
• Prospecting calls simply are not working
• Not getting enough referrals
If you said yes to some or many of these challenges, it’s probably due to one or more of these three issues:
1. Prospects perceive you or your team as ‘salesy’
2. You or your team lack a sales game plan
3. You don’t have a clear day-to-day plan to follow in order to be successful.
This is obviously an oversimplification, but there is a very good chance that one of those three issues is true. In Game Plan Selling, the goal is to always be different, be systematic and have a clear prospecting plan that you follow day-to-day.
It may be your time to change what you are doing.
By Marc Wayshak, America’s Sales Coach on Game Plan Selling and Sales Trainer Boston.
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