By the end of this one-day basic sales training course, the participants will:
- Understand what makes a great sales person.
- Follow a customer-focused sales process to guide their sales conversations and match the buying cycle.
- Create a great first impression and opening to a sales conversation.
- Identify needs and opportunities through effective questioning and listening.
- Introduce services and products using features and benefits.
- Gain commitment from customers when closing the customer conversation.
- Explain customer satisfaction, retention and loyalty and measure them in a meaningful and systematic way
- Defend the use of a profitability dimension to any customer loyalty strategy
- Arrange, plan and manage impactful customer satisfaction surveys
- Define customer segments, profiles and models for maximum strategic as well as tactical impact
- Create ‘customer value propositions’ that work
- Develop effective loyalty schemes: know what to avoid and how to improve them
- Compare and contrast between the integrative and the distributive types of negotiations
- Evaluate and assess the differences between soft, hard, and principled styles of negotiations
- Identify and consider personality styles in negotiation
- Understand and work effectively through the four phases of negotiation
- Explore and apply different negotiation tactics
- Plan and conduct effective negotiations
- Identify and adopt the right professional selling behaviors and skills needed to maximize sales performance
- Develop critical self-driven practices to optimize personal and business effectiveness and efficiency
- Master and implement the sales process to successfully handle objections and close more deals
- Manage customer expectations and exceed it to gain customer loyalty and generate repeat business
Master the art of verbal and non-verbal communication to create an atmosphere of respect and trust in the seller-buyer interface