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Dec 27, 2022 12:00pm

By Jody Seivert

Under #SellItOrScheduleIt, Build Habits, Actions, Consultative Selling, Conversation, #FillTheWell, sales, Qualifying Questions, Coaching, Interactions, showroom, strategy & Discovery Questions

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Guardrails #2

To continue with the guardrail conversation… setting boundaries.
A boundary that helps guide the conversation is the ability to say “No.”

Say NO when the client/customer asks for things that cannot be done – either within the current budget or timeframe.
Say NO when the client/customer asks for additions without adding to what they are paying for it.
Say NO when the client/customer asks you to ‘take it out of your commission’.
Say NO when the client/customer asks you to do something that you know is…

Dec 27, 2022 12:00pm

By Jody Seivert

Under #SellItOrScheduleIt, Build Habits, Actions, Consultative Selling, Conversation, #FillTheWell, sales, Qualifying Questions, Coaching, Interactions, showroom, strategy & Discovery Questions

2 min read

Nov 29, 2022 12:00pm

By Jody Seivert

Under Discovery Questions, Qualifying Questions, gratitude, relationships, sales, Interactions, success, #FillTheWell, Opportunities, Commitment, Results, showroom, connecting, Consultative Selling & Conversation

1 min read

GRATEFUL QUESTIONING

How can we bring gratitude to questioning? When do we need it the most?

Let’s look at where questions start. Are they coming from a place of interest and helpfulness?

Are the questions originating from compassion and a desire to understand?

Are the questions courageous (tough to ask but we know we must) and considerate (asked in a

way that is respectful and kind)?

When a sales interaction is successful (in that it produced a sale or an appointment), take a moment to present and to be gratef…

Nov 29, 2022 12:00pm

By Jody Seivert

Under Discovery Questions, Qualifying Questions, gratitude, relationships, sales, Interactions, success, #FillTheWell, Opportunities, Commitment, Results, showroom, connecting, Consultative Selling & Conversation

1 min read

Nov 22, 2022 12:00pm

By Jody Seivert

Under gratitude, #FillTheWell, Build Habits, Interactions, Opportunities, relationships, team, Customer Satisfaction, Mindset, Connection, Consultative Selling, Actions, Coaching, showroom & Excellence

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GRATEFUL GREETING

This is where gratitude matters most…when we welcome clients, customers, and prospects into the showroom and collectively and individually create an environment that is warm and inviting.

Our thinking and conversations internally impact the experience that we create for our ‘guests’ and when we understand the impact that we have, we can be responsible for it and be

intentional with it.

What do you do to prepare yourself to be welcoming and grateful to incoming guests?

What do you do to rem…

Nov 22, 2022 12:00pm

By Jody Seivert

Under gratitude, #FillTheWell, Build Habits, Interactions, Opportunities, relationships, team, Customer Satisfaction, Mindset, Connection, Consultative Selling, Actions, Coaching, showroom & Excellence

1 min read

Oct 11, 2022 12:00pm

By Jody Seivert

Under #SellItOrScheduleIt, Action plan, Build Habits, sales, Appointments, Systems, Interactions, Furnishings, showroom, Opportunities, Retail, planning & Follow-up

1 min read

Follow Up…enough to get a result?

As an industry, whether retail or trade home furnishings showrooms, we tend to be weak in follow-up. Not everyone, but as an industry, this is a shortcoming. Please consider that there is room for growth here.

Start by planning to schedule follow-up and outreach actions into your work week, not letting them fall into 'when you get to it' status. AND plan them at the best time to produce the desired action –to connect and to get a sale or an appointment.

Notice: When do you give up? When i…

Oct 11, 2022 12:00pm

By Jody Seivert

Under #SellItOrScheduleIt, Action plan, Build Habits, sales, Appointments, Systems, Interactions, Furnishings, showroom, Opportunities, Retail, planning & Follow-up

1 min read

Aug 9, 2022 12:00pm

By Jody Seivert

Under Qualifying Questions, Goals, communication, Build Habits, Coaching, Sales Coaches, Interactions, showroom & Discovery Questions

1 min read

Assessing versus Assuming

Assess OR Assume…you can’t do both.

And the only way you know which one you are currently doing is…drumroll, please…you are asking questions with only ONE of them: Assessing. Assessing means asking questions, not knowing and looking for evidence, but asking in order to know.

Asking questions is a skill. Every sales professional needs to see it as a skill to develop FOREVER because the customer buying process changes, the marketplace evolves, and the desire and ability to learn more and do …

Aug 9, 2022 12:00pm

By Jody Seivert

Under Qualifying Questions, Goals, communication, Build Habits, Coaching, Sales Coaches, Interactions, showroom & Discovery Questions

1 min read

Aug 2, 2022 12:00pm

By Jody Seivert

Under Decision Maker, Sales Managers, Action plan, Build Habits, selling, Interactions, showroom, Closing, Sketch, priorities, relationships & Appointments

1 min read

How to Summarize?

“Let’s recap where we are now….”

“Let’s look at what has been decided and what remains…”

“Let’s summarize where we are now and make sure we are focused on your priorities.”

Notice that these are all ‘stop action’ statements by the salesperson…directing what the next action will be and the benefit of that action.

Summarizing will let the customer/client take a breath and not add new information to the conversation.

It will allow the salesperson to pause and take a breath, get to neutral…

Aug 2, 2022 12:00pm

By Jody Seivert

Under Decision Maker, Sales Managers, Action plan, Build Habits, selling, Interactions, showroom, Closing, Sketch, priorities, relationships & Appointments

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Jul 26, 2022 12:00pm

By Jody Seivert

Under Interactions, Opportunities, Coaching, Build Habits, Action plan, Results, showroom, sales, Sales Managers, Sales Coaches, Clarity & sales professionals

2 min read

Who should Summarize?

In the same way that sketching the room is a multi-purpose tool and skill, I assert that summarizing will be, too. And they both need to be practiced into second nature by everyone on the sales team.

The sales professional.

In the earlier posts, I itemized the situations that would benefit from summarizing. For the salesperson, this will be a skill to be practiced and to keep front of mind. It may need to be mentioned in the daily huddle – with some successes from the previous day and some v…

Jul 26, 2022 12:00pm

By Jody Seivert

Under Interactions, Opportunities, Coaching, Build Habits, Action plan, Results, showroom, sales, Sales Managers, Sales Coaches, Clarity & sales professionals

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Jul 19, 2022 12:00pm

By Jody Seivert

Under Clarity, Sales Coaches, Build Habits, Action plan, Coaching, Sales Managers, selling, Interactions, #SellItOrScheduleIt, showroom, distraction, Mindset & Appointments

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When to Summarize?

With this new skill of summarizing, it is helpful to know when to use it. As you read this, put yourself in your most recent ineffective sales interaction…and by ineffective, I mean that you did not produce a sale or an appointment. Without defense or blame, let’s explore if any of these things happened and if a different outcome might have been achieved if you had summarized.

Did you or the customer get distracted, confused, or overwhelmed? It’s easy to do when there are a lot of details …

Jul 19, 2022 12:00pm

By Jody Seivert

Under Clarity, Sales Coaches, Build Habits, Action plan, Coaching, Sales Managers, selling, Interactions, #SellItOrScheduleIt, showroom, distraction, Mindset & Appointments

2 min read

Jul 6, 2022 12:00am

By Jody Seivert

Under #SellItOrScheduleIt, Mindset, #JodySays, Build Habits, Coaching, selling, Opportunities, Achieve, Interactions, #closeratio, showroom, sales, relationships & communication

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What does slow mean?

When salespeople tell me that ‘it’s slow’…I have to take a breath and get to neutral so that I don’t react. 😀 Why is that?

Because most salespeople who complain about traffic aren’t using the actual data as their complaint. They might be using one day of traffic against the same day a week earlier or another anecdotal comparison that is not based in fact. And even if it IS factual, now what?

My standard response to “It’s slow…” is something like, “I get that you have some concerns about the tr…

Jul 6, 2022 12:00am

By Jody Seivert

Under #SellItOrScheduleIt, Mindset, #JodySays, Build Habits, Coaching, selling, Opportunities, Achieve, Interactions, #closeratio, showroom, sales, relationships & communication

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Jun 14, 2022 12:00pm

By Jody Seivert

Under #FillTheWell, #SellItOrScheduleIt, Build Habits, Action plan, Organization, showroom, Systems, Prospects, practice, connecting, relationships, selling, Interactions, Opportunities, Retail, sales, #closeratio & Closing

2 min read

Who you gonna call?

Do you have your customers and prospects in a CRM or accessible and organized format?
Are your contacts stored somewhere that you can get to easily?

If you aren’t using a CRM program, you can get by with putting your contacts in Outlook or in an Excel or Google spreadsheet. You probably have systems in your computer (or the company does) that you can use to get started, so ask before you take on building something that might already be in existence.

For trade showrooms, begin to organize your…

Jun 14, 2022 12:00pm

By Jody Seivert

Under #FillTheWell, #SellItOrScheduleIt, Build Habits, Action plan, Organization, showroom, Systems, Prospects, practice, connecting, relationships, selling, Interactions, Opportunities, Retail, sales, #closeratio & Closing

2 min read

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Guardrails #2

GRATEFUL QUESTIONING

GRATEFUL GREETING

Follow Up…enough to get a result?

Assessing versus Assuming

How to Summarize?

Who should Summarize?

When to Summarize?

What does slow mean?

Who you gonna call?

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