Getting to know your prospect Get in the meeting, fire up the presentation and tell them how great your company is. I can’t tell you how many times I have seen this, a prospect hoping to hear the answers to the problems and challenges she is facing only to be bored to tears by yet … Read more
How often have you been in a meeting with your team, agreed actions and sent them off to complete the actions only for them to come back with a totally different answer to a task you didn’t set. It’s frustrating!. You are a good communicator, you wouldn’t have got to where you are today without … Read more
It has happened to us all, you have been in a meeting with a customer and had a really good session. It may have been about a small opportunity or the framing of a larger project… Awkward situation You leave the meeting (or video call nowadays) and put together what you believe the outcome was. … Read more
Quite often software houses have a few customers that they have built up over time. They may not be in similar industries, quite often they are different sizes and ultimately they all spend differing amounts of money on the products and services that you offer. When looking to grow the business the temptation is to … Read more
The Coronavirus pandemic has impacted us all. Some to a greater degree than others. All the plans for business that we had, all the opportunities we expected to close, those orders just ready to sign have all been thrown into disarray. Welcome to the world of doughnut planning. Doughnut PlanningEvery salesperson has been in this … Read more
The Dating Game – Getting the Right Prospects Being successful in sales always starts out with having the right prospects for your software solution. Sounds easy, but is it? If you have a horizontal product that covers many verticals and is pretty much a commodity then finding prospects should be easy. Conversely, if you have … Read more
Overnight the world has changed and Coronavirus is the only headline we hear about. This new paradigm has meant that the majority of the workforce who are 1, still in work and 2, not a key worker are now having to work from home. As we all know homeworking. Novelty of homeworking The novelty of … Read more
Know your target One of the costliest exercises for any sales person in terms of time used is prospecting. Not all of us have huge marketing departments and budgets to rely on for lead generation. The majority of us have to get off our backsides and do it ourselves. Who to look for It is … Read more
The Valley of Death You have been working with the customer for months now and communication has been good at all times. You have confidently put them on your sales forecast and then all of a sudden ‘radio silence’. We have all been here whether we know it or not. The Valley of Death is … Read more
Planning We all know the 7 p’s don’t we? Maybe not, but it is very true that proper planning and preparation prevents particularly poor performance. This is something that is really true within the sales arena. You will find that the more prepared you are the better the outcomes tend to be even to the … Read more