Articles under ‘Soft Skills’

When I first started in sales I thought that all I needed was to learn a bunch of sales techniques. I soon discovered that there was so much more to selling.
Many sales trainers will have you believe that if you just follow their techniques you will never look back. For some people that will [...]

You can avoid some serious diseases by receiving an inoculation. The smallpox inoculation works by infecting an individual with a mild case of smallpox and the body builds up natural defenses. In a similar way, you can inoculate prospects against serious price objections by using the concept of inoculation. This will help enormously when closing [...]

With relationship based selling, the clue is in the title! To be successful with this type of selling you need to be developing and extending relationships. The activity is similar to networking except you are building a network within the client account. Seek to keep updated with what is going on and also expand your [...]

I tend to work with people where they seem to have everything going for them in terms of business and yet something is just not quite working. In many cases they know HOW to sell but for some reason they are not getting enough business. I am going to do a separate article on self-motivation [...]