by Jeff Beals | May 24, 2019 | Closing Sales & Overcoming Objections, Prospecting, Referrals, Sales Motiviation
By Jeff Beals During question-and-answer periods, the same issue keeps coming up in my sales workshops: how to deal with gatekeepers. These people are the receptionists and administrative assistants who stand between you and the decision maker you seek. I’ve...
by Jeff Beals | May 20, 2019 | Closing Sales & Overcoming Objections
By Jeff Beals Remember that closing a sale involves a series of small commitments before you get the big commitment to buy. These little commitments are sometimes referred to as “miniature closes.” By simply agreeing to meet you, a prospect makes a mini commitment,...
by Jeff Beals | May 6, 2019 | Closing Sales & Overcoming Objections, General Sales Topics, Sales Motiviation
By Jeff Beals It happens to all of us – a prospective client, one you’re sure is going to end up purchasing from you, suddenly goes inexplicably dark. Prospects have been going dark since the sales profession’s very beginning. It’s a common problem, but it...
by Jeff Beals | Apr 5, 2019 | Closing Sales & Overcoming Objections, General Sales Topics, Sales Motiviation
By Jeff Beals I was talking with my brother-in-law last week, and he shared an experience he had at a local chapter meeting of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors. An insurance executive was delivering a speech about sales success. ...
by Jeff Beals | Oct 29, 2018 | Closing Sales & Overcoming Objections, General Sales Topics, Prospecting, Sales Motiviation
By Jeff Beals I was meeting with one of my coaching clients earlier this week, and he was lamenting that one of his top prospects wouldn’t call him back. The prospect was a senior decision maker at large company. As my client shared his frustrations, it reminded me...
by Jeff Beals | Aug 10, 2018 | Closing Sales & Overcoming Objections
By Jeff Beals One of my all-time favorite “sales” quotes came from a man known simply as “The Greatest,” the late boxing champ Muhammad Ali: “The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses—behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance...
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