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Professional selling is a dynamic, exciting, and exacting profession with
rewards and
opportunities to match the risks involved. It requires that salespeople
develop a contingency approach to customer interactions. This means that
rather than there being one ''best'' way to sell, salespeople must analyse
each selling situation in order to plan the strategies that will work best.
Aims and Objectives
Recognise the reasons behind buying and selling
Explore the difference between sales and marketing and
the sales person’s role
Recognise how customers think and feel and to empathise with them
Recognise the need for thorough preparation and planning prior to meetings with
customers
Cover the methods of gaining orders and customer commitment to purchase
Recognise the factors that make a successful sales person
To identify why people dislike being sold to and show how to avoid falling into the
wrong approach
Cover the methods used to discover new business, work out and discuss the level of
creative activity required to provide enough prospects to convert new business
Gain the delegates’ agreement and understanding for the need to qualify their
prospects in selling
Understand the correct use of the telephone to gain appointments
Use of effective questioning skills
Understand the difference between features and benefits and the significance of
benefits in the selling process
Learn how to handle objections to buying
Learning Outcomes
Recognise how modern sales has developed and can be used in their own working
environment to improve margins and profits
Apply a basic sales process to their own sales situation.
Recognise the need to understand the decision making process.
Qualify, approach and assess new business prospects.
Know how they match up to the personal attributes necessary to be successful in selling.
Approach all those they deal with in a more confident manner
Recognise the differences between needs and wants and identify rational and emotive
reasons to purchase.
Recognise the different motivations behind what makes the customer decide to buy.
Approach individual prospects without triggering the defensive barriers that they may have
against being sold to.
Ask questions, listen and discuss with individuals rather than “telling”.
Calculate the activity ratios needed to create prospects before they can even start to sell
successfully.
Improve their telephone appointment getting success.
Appreciate benefits from the customer’s point of view
Handle customer’s objections/reluctance to purchase.
Close and win orders with more confidence.
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