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Coming From Behind
Are you falling short of your goal this period? Do you have ground to make up before the period ends?
Coming from behind is a skill and a process. And it’s a skill and a process that you will use more than once, as falling short of goal is not unusual even when the intention is to make goal consistently and to stay on track.
The process needs to be high impact…meaning it needs to produce results quickly. To do that, look to the business that is closest and easiest to close: appointments that …
Be Realistic and Honest
This month I'd like to dedicate time to discuss ENDING a selling period…and ending it on track and on goal, even if the month didn’t go as smoothly as desired.
We are now in the fourth quarter of the year, so the skill of finishing strong applies to the month as well as to the year.
Let’s start with being straight and realistic. You are either on track to make goal or you are not. You have had a specific number of opportunities that you have closed or scheduled, or you have not. You have sch…
Observe the Calendars of Your Sales Team Members
Now that your calendar is set with recurring actions and appointments, you can start connecting the dots (for yourself) of how that level of organization is contributing to the results you are achieving.
And you can be the example for your team to follow.
Your example and expertise will allow you to coach your team on HOW to organize their time and HOW to plan for appointments so that they can begin to experience that level of organization for themselves and connect their own dots of struct…
Take the Actions That Create Appointments
Actions are the only things that produce results. When appointments are the target, there are specific actions to take, in a sequence, that will get them on the calendar, get them accepted via invitation, and get the result intended – namely, the sale. Here they are in chronological order:
- Organize your calendar to schedule 8-10 appointments per week – at times YOU set.
- Enter EACH customer interaction INTENDING to accomplish a sale or an appointment.
- Recognize when an appointment WILL be …
What is Your Relationship to Organization?
As a natural list maker, it still surprises me when I work with someone who relies solely on a daily to-do list and doesn’t use a calendar. Is that you?
A daily to-do list is an insufficient structure for organizing actions in time. They are good vehicles for prioritizing results per day…but using them exclusively fosters high stress and a narrow perspective…which is why I encourage using a calendar with at least a weekly view. It encourages a wider vision of the time allowed and the best tim…
June is…a good practice month.
It’s hard to imagine that less sales traffic would be a good thing…and yet it can be.
If traffic is off, you can spend more time with each opportunity and increase the chance to close and to close for bigger tickets.
What makes the difference is intention.
Intention to focus on creating an outcome with each and every opportunity. The intention is to sell it or schedule it. Not to sell it or follow up… to sell it or schedule it.
If you notice that you are not scheduling at least 20% of your…
Tuition or Commission?
Tuition or Commission?
It’s that simple…
Either you write it up now and get commission…or you make an appointment to sell it later.
Those are commission producing actions and results.
OR you DON’T get the sale or the appointment…and you LEARN something from it.
You learn something about yourself. You learn what you could have done or done differently.
For that outcome you need to want to get something from this interaction with…
PerformNow and One by One
If you are a regular reader, you know that I have a commitment to sales managers and how they effectively execute their job and elevate their team performance. My “Sell it or Schedule it” has a sales manager training component and I easily spend as much time training and coaching sales managers as I spend training and coaching salespeople.
It’s with that commitment that I have joined forces with David and Wayne McMahon and their PerformNow Sales Manager Performance Groups. There are…
The Final PR Word
P R
For Sales Professionals, everywhere…..
This is the last of four blogs in the series on PR words. How did the last blog about the buyer’s PRocess impact what you know about where your client/customer is in their decision making…and what you are able to complete and achieve with them today? Our final P R word is….
PRoduct(s)
- Based on what we have learned about their problem, what matters most to them, and where they are in their process, what are the best product solutions for them?
- H…
Respecting Time by Making Appointments
As part of organizing actions in time, establish pre-arranged appointment times for when they work best for YOU (scheduled at lower opportunity times for other, harder-to-control actions). Use the repeat feature on your calendar so that you hold those times week after week. When you offer an appointment time that is agreed to, send a calendar invitation that can be accepted and ‘saved for this event only’ from the series…leaving that spot open next week at the same time. Increase the opportuni…
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