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Set Appointments that Lead to Sales Tom Ziglar says, 'If you could set a higher number of better and more qualified appointments, would it help your sales career? If you answered yes, then The Seven Keys to Effective Business-to-Business Appointments Setting is just for you.' This webinar offers a unique compilation of tactical appointment setting techniques that have been proven effective for sales professionals in the  more...

Empower Others to Promote Your Business What if you could cut your prospecting time in half? How about never having to prospect for business again because you ve developed a network of Ambassadors to seek and find business for you? The Ambassador relationship is the ultimate relationship in sales. Also known as champions or advocates, Ambassadors see such benefit in what you do and the products and services you provide, that they re  more...

Use Customer Service to Win Loyal Clients Differentiate By Making Client Satisfaction Pervasive Throughout Your Organization When service is blas , price becomes the decision driver for customers. If you aren't committed to delivering a high-level service experience, be prepared for a never-ending price war that slashes your margins. Today's marketplace demands that companies deliver consistent, stellar service to retain their existing  more...

Process Management for IT & Professional Services Firms Restore Profitability and Become Scalable Through Process Efficiency As a leader of an IT or professional services firm, you know that cost containment is critical to survive and thrive. Without it, you can't provide competitive pricing on proposals making it difficult to compete. Yet, there is a key part of your business that is draining your profits without you knowing it process management! IT  more...

Process Management for Manufacturing & Construction Firms Restore Profitability and Become Scalable Through Process Efficiency As a leader of a manufacturing or construction firm, you know that cost containment is critical to survive and thrive. Yet, there is a key part of your business that is draining your profits without you knowing it process management! Manufacturing firms that do not have documented processes and workflow become inefficient,  more...

Business-to-Business Prospecting Innovative Techniques to Get Your Foot in the Door with Any Prospect If there is one thing you could improve regarding your role as a sales professional, what would it be? Find more opportunities? Close more deals? Make more money? I would estimate that what you care about most is closing the sale. Funny thing is that the very first phase of the sales process the prospecting phase often has the  more...

Customer Service for a Social Media World Techniques Designed To Delight Your Clients For Retention and Growth Customers are more demanding than ever and with social media; it's never been easier to share their customer service experience with the world. The question is whether that message is positive or negative. And customer satisfaction isn't just about keeping clients. Satisfied clients buy more services, provide references, and  more...

Driving Business Development Using Modern Principles of Productivity Get More Business By Getting More Done Business development is simple build relationships and secure clients/customers. But getting it done is hard. To develop business, you must consistently repeat a series of small steps, but executives and professionals often fail to do this because they lack a simple, easy-to-use method for getting it done. The result is missed opportunities to grow and  more...

Get New Sales People Generating Revenue Fast Develop a Plan That Quickly Gets New Hires Up to Speed As a sales manager, you rely entirely on your sales team for revenue performance; and succeed or fail based on how they do. Your ability to effectively onboard your newly- hired sales people will make or break your year. Every moment that your new sales person is not armed to sell translates to lost sales opportunities and is a glaring cost  more...

How to Become A Great Sales Leader Learn The Secrets to Building A Winning Sales Team Baseball managers don't throw a pitch or hit a ball. They lead their team through thick and thin to deliver victories. As a sales manager, you rely on your sales team to hit homeruns every day. In a challenged economy, your sales team may be finding it tough to take a good swing at the plate these days. Your sales team is looking to you for  more...

Social Media Savvy How to Develop a Free Marketing Campaign that Delivers Profit What have you heard about social media marketing? Do you believe that Facebook and MySpace are just for teenagers? Do you know that the Obama Campaign maximized the power of the internet through social media to garner the power of close to 10,000,000 fans and supporters? What could that do for your business? In this webinar you will  more...

Time Management for Sales People Find More Time to Sell Without Working More Hours How many selling hours did you have last week? It's a frighteningly low number, isn't it? High-performing sales people spend 28% of their time selling actively, face to face sales under-performers spend just 14%. If only a small fraction of your time is spent on high-value selling activities, what chance do you have of hitting your revenue and  more...

The Busy Professional's Guide to Social Networking Leverage this Power In Just Minutes A Day Social networking is hot, but you are still sitting on the sidelines. You hear about LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, blogging and perhaps, it's all so overwhelming with your plate already full with other initiatives. Getting involved with social networking can help you and your business grow without a huge time investment if you know how. Lynne  more...

Create a Client Experience to Grow Your Financial Advisor Practice Strategies for Developing a Consistent, Memorable Impression Over 80% of surveyed clients said they were dissatisfied with their financial advisor. That's pretty scary if that includes your client base. You certainly can blame the economy for some of your client s frustration but are you responsible too? How you define the client experience affects, not only retention, but also the new clients  more...

Process Management for Manufacturing & Construction Firms Restore Profitability and Become Scalable Through Process Efficiency As a leader of a manufacturing or construction firm, you know that cost containment is critical to survive and thrive. Yet, there is a key part of your business that is draining your profits without you knowing it process management! Manufacturing firms that do not have documented processes and workflow become inefficient,  more...

Master Cold Calling to Drive Revenue Techniques to Get Your Foot In the Door Technology has created tremendous barriers for sales people. From caller ID to voicemail to professional screeners, reaching the decision-maker has never been more challenging. When you finally reach them, you have a mere few seconds to capture their attention or you get the dreaded click and opportunity is lost. For most sales people, the prospecting call  more...

Turn Tradeshow Leads Into Sales Over 43% of trade show leads fail because sales follow-up is too late! Companies invest an exorbitant amount of money, time, and resources in trade shows. Business leaders hold sales and marketing departments accountable and responsible for generating a return on the investment made in trade shows. With marketing dollars being finite and marketing investment being heavily scrutinized, it is more  more...

Stop Negotiating, Start Closing! It s the end of the month and you re off quota by 30%. Your need to sell is overwhelming your boss wants you to close more sales, your prospects want a huge price break. You are feeling squeezed! Do you discount and lose margin and commission dollars, or do you lose the deal entirely? The pressure is on! Andy Miller has taught thousands of salespeople around the world a unique negotiating  more...

Dogs are born to hunt. Is your sales staff born to sell? What is more important, nurture or nature? When it comes to sales, they both are important. Sales DNA refers to the internal qualities required to be successful in sales . Some examples include - no fear of rejection, no need for approval, money motivated, positive outlook and many others. When a new hire lacks these traits, many frustrating hours of coaching and training will be wasted. The  more...

Using Social Settings to Get Your Deal Done Dining Etiquette That Differentiates You From The Competition Mind your manners! Even if you don t pull up a chair to your parents dinner table every night, heeding their advice about mealtime manners is more critical now than ever before. In today s competitive business world, meals aren t for nourishment they re an efficient way to get deals done. Whether you are closing a sale or interviewing  more...

Unconventional Marketing Strategies for Small Business Owners Boost revenue and profit in this stressed economy Small business owners are struggling now more than ever to grow revenue. Cash flow is limited and return on investment (ROI) dictates where this money is spent. You need to question where to invest marketing dollars how to measure performance and what to expect from ROI. Your marketing budget must be invested wisely or you will suffocate your  more...

Pricing Strategies for Profitable Growth How to Formulate the Right Price in a Service Business 'If I price it too high, they won t buy. If I price it too low, we barely break even.' The yin and yang pricing debate has been a staple in business since the beginning of time. When you are operating a service company, it is very easy to price yourself right out of business if you don t know all of the factors that affect profitability.  more...

Performance-Based Sales Recruiting How to Hire More Top Sales Producers and Jump-Start New Hire Sales Performance How expensive are sales hiring mistakes? To answer this question, take a look at the difference in revenue, gross margin or profit (whichever number is most important to you) produced by your company s top sales producers and your bottom sales producers. Then add in the costs of recruiting and training new salespeople.  more...

Why Your Sales Team Doesn't Work For You and Never Will Sales people don t wake up energized, wondering how they will make your company more money. What motivates people varies greatly between individuals. Often, management believes money is the only motivator needed for a sales staff but money alone does not have emotion tied to it. If the employee has a goal for retirement, education for a child, or a dream vacation, that is much more real and  more...

Social Media Savvy How to Develop a Free Marketing Campaign that Delivers Profit What have you heard about social media marketing? Do you believe that Facebook and MySpace are just for teenagers? Do you know that the Obama Campaign maximized the power of the internet through social media to garner the power of close to 10,000,000 fans and supporters? What could that do for your business? In this webinar you will  more...

The Renegade Approach to Consultative Selling When you look back at your monthly sales results, did you spend more time making friends or generating revenue? If you invest the same amount of time with every prospect it results in a full pipeline, but with few or no sales. The key to sales success is being able to separate those prospects ready to buy from those who are not. If you can t identify real prospects, you re wasting precious selling  more...

Coaching for Success The four step process in changing beliefs and outcomes Getting performance from others is one of the biggest challenges in business. Employees simply do not see things the same as the owners and managers! Yet, performance is needed and Managers and Leaders need to build people and performance in order to grow the business and stay competitive! One challenge is the vast variety of motives and  more...

Fill Your Pipeline with Hot Prospects It has never been harder to be successful to get profitable clients. Budgets are tight. Competition is fierce. The secret to success is to fill your pipeline with only hot prospects. But who are they? Referrals! Don't stop reading because you think 'I already know how to get referrals.' Successful referral sellers aren't asking clients to pass their name along, nor are they calling a new  more...

Elevate Your Presentations Powerful Strategies to Engage Your Audience Great news! You just found out that you are a finalist for a huge account. It s an exciting time it s a scary time. After all, the one who is most effective at presenting their solution will win the business. Will your presentation skills lead you to victory? Lorraine Howell has spent more than 10 years successfully coaching business professionals  more...

Name Your Price and Get It! Strategies for Effectively Handling the Money Conversation 'If we don t lower our price, we won t get the business!' Just as kryptonite paralyzes Superman, the price objection stops sales people in their tracks. For some, it triggers a paralyzing fear. Others don t know how to resolve the concern. Drop the price? Walk away from the deal? Hold firm? There are tell-tale signs that tell you exactly  more...

Put Your Strategic Plan Into Action Implementation Strategies that Get Results! Many companies have the right strategic plan, but still don t grow their business! If effective execution is a major challenge when the economy is booming imagine what it is now that a recession is here and resources are scarce. Having the best strategic plan in the world won t help you increase profitability and grow your business if it's not  more...

Get New Sales People Generating Revenue Fast Develop a Plan That Quickly Gets New Hires Up to Speed As a sales manager, you rely entirely on your sales team for revenue performance; and succeed or fail based on how they do. Your ability to effectively onboard your newly- hired sales people will make or break your year. Every moment that your new sales person is not armed to sell translates to lost sales opportunities and is a glaring cost  more...

How to Create Successful Strategic Marketing Alliances Use Marketing Partners to Grow Your Business Surviving the economic crisis demands fresh thinking and strategic marketing and you have plenty of creative ideas. The only catch? You don t have the budget to implement all of your plans. The solution? Develop strategic marketing partnerships with other organizations to extend your marketing and sales reach without increasing your budget. Ann  more...

How To Be An Online Spy (and use what you find for business success) There is an incredible amount of information online about what s going on at companies and with people. The problem is when you look for information using popular search engines, most people receive thousands and sometimes millions of results. In 'How To Be An Online Spy,' you ll learn the inside secrets on how to find information on companies and  more...

Critical Thinking for Business Leaders How Outcome Based Thinking Can Change Your Results The higher you climb up the leadership ladder, the more important 'conceptual skills' are to your ability to drive organizational success. Leaders who possess conceptual thinking skills can leverage critical thinking and problem solving techniques that produce faster, better results. Those that continue to approach issues the same old way are  more...

How to Close More Sales by Shortening Your Sales Cycle Two of the side effects that this uncertain economy has had on sales is delayed closings and longer sale cycles. Most salespeople are not equipped to deal with these two additional issues in the face of the additional resistance they re seeing from prospects. This webinar will show you how to shorten your sales cycle and eliminate delayed closings by going more slowly through the sales process to  more...

How to Build a High Performance Sales Engine Develop the foundation for your sales organization 'We have one guy who brings in 90% of the company s revenue. What are we doing wrong?' You re right to be concerned. Your company s financial success depends on the rainmaker s ability and motivation to sell. Plus, if you lose your top performer to a competitor, it could destroy your company. If this sounds like your company, you need to address  more...

Hiring Strategies for Your Sales Organization Best Practices When Hiring Sales People 'I just found my rainmaker or did I?' Sales managers are often blinded by the star qualities and accomplishments of prospective sales candidates. The resume reads like the perfect sales rep met 150% of quota, grew the business 200%, and thrived with a competitor. If you re only looking at their track record, you may be missing key information that indicates  more...

Process Management for Manufacturing & Construction Firms Restore Profitability and Become Scalable Through Process Efficiency As a leader of a manufacturing or construction firm, you know that cost containment is critical to survive and thrive. Yet, there is a key part of your business that is draining your profits without you knowing it process management! Manufacturing firms that do not have documented processes and workflow become inefficient,  more...

Use Customer Service to Win Loyal Clients Differentiate By Making Client Satisfaction Pervasive Throughout Your Organization When service is blas , price becomes the decision driver for customers. If you aren't committed to delivering a high-level service experience, be prepared for a never-ending price war that slashes your margins. Today's marketplace demands that companies deliver consistent, stellar service to retain their existing  more...

Drive Growth Despite the Recession Create the right strategic plan for your company Professional sports coaches don t send teams on the playing field without a game-plan they ll get crushed. Even when games are broadcasted, viewers see coaches and managers constantly reviewing strategies and updating plays to leverage strengths, eliminate weaknesses, and identify the gaps to win. Similarly, businesses without the right strategic  more...

How to Become A Great Sales Leader Learn The Secrets to Building A Winning Sales Team Baseball managers don't throw a pitch or hit a ball. They lead their team through thick and thin to deliver victories. As a sales manager, you rely on your sales team to hit homeruns every day. In a challenged economy, your sales team may be finding it tough to take a good swing at the plate these days. Your sales team is looking to you for  more...

Social Media Savvy How to Develop a Free Marketing Campaign that Delivers Profit What have you heard about social media marketing? Do you believe that Facebook and MySpace are just for teenagers? Do you know that the Obama Campaign maximized the power of the internet through social media to garner the power of close to 10,000,000 fans and supporters? What could that do for your business? In this webinar you will  more...

The Cold Calling System That Works! Reach the Top-Level Decision Makers to Skyrocket Sales! Sales professionals find cold calling painful. But if they don't do it and do it well they have no sales. Prospecting is a slow, uncomfortable process as you strive to reach the top decision maker. If you can't 'Reach The Top Dog,' you can't generate sales and your income is at risk! Leslie Buterin, author of 'Secrets to Scheduling the  more...

Never Have Another Cold Call! Know More Than You Ever Thought You Could About Your Prospects, Clients, and Competitors You've heard it before Knowledge is power and, as a sales professional, you need that power to sell. A tremendous amount of information is available at your fingertips to prepare for a sales call or research competitors, but few know how to find it online. Deals are lost every day because the wrong sales  more...

Powerful Secrets to Keep Your Sale Moving Learn the keys to keeping the connection alive with your prospects Business is tough. Budgets are tight. Buyers are scared. How do you get clients comfortable enough to buy from you? In the current market where dollars are scarce and clients are wary of new commitments, getting precious time in front of a prospect is extremely valuable. You want to have to make the most of that opportunity. You  more...

Leverage Buyer Styles to Win More Sales The missing ingredient that keeps you from closing more Finally, you have the meeting with the decision maker that you have chased for months. No sale! You just could not make a connection with her. Was the prospect a jerk or was it your approach that caused the meeting to go badly? Sales people who approach every prospect the same way have a 75% chance of blowing the meeting! There is a critical  more...

Give Your Elevator Speech A Lift How do you stand out in the crowd in a competitive environment? Your prospects are getting inundated by confusing marketing messages making it difficult to sound unique. The sales people and entrepreneurs that get in the door are the ones that can quickly and powerfully communicate their value. Your 30-second commercial had better hit the mark -- or you re going to lose sales and referral  more...

The Secret to Closing More Sales Closing is certainly an important sales activity, as the time, effort, and resources invested in managing sales cycles are wasted if orders are not secured. However, the real secret to closing sales is doing a great job at the FRONT end of the sales cycle. In other words, it is the quality of the work that is done during the OPPORTUNITY QUALIFICATION stage of the sales process that determines  more...

Get New Sales People Generating Revenue Fast Develop a Plan That Quickly Gets New Hires Up to Speed As a sales manager, you rely entirely on your sales team for revenue performance; and succeed or fail based on how they do. Your ability to effectively onboard your newly- hired sales people will make or break your year. Every moment that your new sales person is not armed to sell translates to lost sales opportunities and is a glaring cost  more...

Driving Business Development Using Modern Principles of Productivity Get More Business By Getting More Done Business development is simple build relationships and secure clients/customers. But getting it done is hard. To develop business, you must consistently repeat a series of small steps, but executives and professionals often fail to do this because they lack a simple, easy-to-use method for getting it done. The result is missed opportunities to grow and  more...

Use Customer Service to Win Loyal Clients Differentiate By Making Client Satisfaction Pervasive Throughout Your Organization When service is blas , price becomes the decision driver for customers. If you aren't committed to delivering a high-level service experience, be prepared for a never-ending price war that slashes your margins. Today's marketplace demands that companies deliver consistent, stellar service to retain their existing  more...

What Every CEO Should Know About Their Sales Organization Ask the right questions to know if your sales team is on track 'Where are the sales?!' Every CEO knows how to ask this question, but the response does not tell if the sales team is performing optimally or is aligned with the corporate vision. Revenue used to roll-in, almost magically, through the front door. Now that the economy has slowed, CEOs need better predictors of performance to  more...

Get the Trash Out Of Your Funnel What s a sales professional supposed to do in this turbulent economy -- you re not getting meetings with real prospects, your clients wonder if they ll be in business tomorrow and you re not generating revenue. You may rationalize that your sales funnel is filled with active leads, but it s actually just filled with rocks, weeds, and sand. How do you fill your sales funnel with qualified leads and  more...

Empower Others to Promote Your Business What if you could cut your prospecting time in half? How about never having to prospect for business again because you ve developed a network of Ambassadors to seek and find business for you? The Ambassador relationship is the ultimate relationship in sales. Also known as champions or advocates, Ambassadors see such benefit in what you do and the products and services you provide, that they re  more...

Create a Client Experience to Grow Your Financial Advisor Practice Strategies for Developing a Consistent, Memorable Impression Over 80% of surveyed clients said they were dissatisfied with their financial advisor. That's pretty scary if that includes your client base. You certainly can blame the economy for some of your client s frustration but are you responsible too? How you define the client experience affects, not only retention, but also the new clients  more...

Driving Business Development Using Modern Principles of Productivity Get More Business By Getting More Done Business development is simple build relationships and secure clients/customers. But getting it done is hard. To develop business, you must consistently repeat a series of small steps, but executives and professionals often fail to do this because they lack a simple, easy-to-use method for getting it done. The result is missed opportunities to grow and  more...

How to Build Strategic Alliances to Grow Your Business 'You're solution is just not as comprehensive as the other company.' Ouch! Lost again to the big guys! As a small business leader, it s frustrating to miss out on business opportunities because you don t have a broad offering to the marketplace. While you excel in your niche, the market is looking for breadth along with depth. How do you offer a comprehensive solution without breaking the bank?  more...

Become Your Prospect s Trusted Advisor How to Build Confidence that Turns Prospects Into Buyers Only 28% of buyers trust a message from a company. The Wall Street Journal found 92% have more confidence in information they find online themselves than from a company source. Prospects hit search engines first when they decide to solve a problem. They ask their friends and colleagues for referrals and opinions. They look for information  more...

Create a Sticky Lead Nurturing Process Use e-marketing to increase qualified leads and shorten sales cycles. According to Marketing Sherpa, 64% of companies with a lead nurturing process are dissatisfied with their results. Every company needs more sales-ready leads. But, unless nurturing content syncs with the way they think, the dissatisfaction will continue. Your leads have taken control of the buying process. They decide when or  more...

How Marketing Can Help Sales Sell More Sales Enablement Drives Revenue Growth PACE research finds that salespeople only spend 23% of their time actually selling. Salespeople spend too much time in early-stage lead generation instead of late-stage selling. They clamor for more qualified leads, but only follow up with about 30% of the leads marketing provides. With budgets tightening and sales cycles lengthening, companies can t  more...

How to Create Profitable Customer Relationships Leveraging Your Marketing ROI Into Client Retention Has your business lost customers in the last 5 years? Can your business afford to spend dollars recruiting new customers only to lose those customers to your competition? Technology and globalization have created a very competitive business climate making it more difficult and more expensive to attract and retain customers. Your company s  more...

Customer Service for a Social Media World Techniques Designed To Delight Your Clients For Retention and Growth Customers are more demanding than ever and with social media; it's never been easier to share their customer service experience with the world. The question is whether that message is positive or negative. And customer satisfaction isn't just about keeping clients. Satisfied clients buy more services, provide references, and  more...

Set Appointments that Lead to Sales Tom Ziglar says, 'If you could set a higher number of better and more qualified appointments, would it help your sales career? If you answered yes, then The Seven Keys to Effective Business-to-Business Appointments Setting is just for you.' This webinar offers a unique compilation of tactical appointment setting techniques that have been proven effective for sales professionals in the  more...

Use Direct Mail Effectively On A Tight Budget Secrets to Using This Forgotten, Yet Effective, Marketing Tool Internet marketing is a glitzy marketing approach that has caused many marketing professionals to forget about tried-and-true direct mail marketing campaigns. While direct mail may lack luster, it is still shown to be an effective marketing tool even more so than Internet marketing. According to a recent DMA study, direct mail  more...

Are You Missing the Mark In These Magic Moments In Sales? Prevent Sales From Stalling Out On You Business is tough. Budgets are tight. Buyers are scared. How do you get clients comfortable enough to buy from you? In the current market where dollars are scarce and clients are wary of new commitments, getting precious time in front of a prospect is extremely valuable. You want to have to make the most of that opportunity. You don t want to inadvertently  more...

Time Management for Sales People Find More Time to Sell Without Working More Hours How many selling hours did you have last week? It's a frighteningly low number, isn't it? High-performing sales people spend 28% of their time selling actively, face to face sales under-performers spend just 14%. If only a small fraction of your time is spent on high-value selling activities, what chance do you have of hitting your revenue and  more...

Master the Proposal Phase of the Sales Process Secrets to improving your closing rate Pin the tail on the donkey is a kid s game, not a sales game! With the limited information that most sales people have when drafting a proposal, they may as well be blindfolded! The proposal is one of the most abused sales tools, but it is the critical tool that leads to a prospect becoming a revenue-generating client. Sales people who cannot identify the  more...

Elevate Your Presentations Powerful Strategies to Engage Your Audience Great news! You just found out that you are a finalist for a huge account. It s an exciting time it s a scary time. After all, the one who is most effective at presenting their solution will win the business. Will your presentation skills lead you to victory? Lorraine Howell has spent more than 10 years successfully coaching business professionals to  more...