The Difference Between Top Sales Performers and the Rest

The Ability to View Obstacles as Opportunity

Business Owners, CEO's and Presidents: Do your sales people have more excuses and reasons for failing to meet quotas? Or do they develop, implement and stick with a different and more productive course of action?

In these difficult economic times sales people become quite black and white. In other words the difference between top performers and rest becomes quite clear.

For those of you who find it difficult to differentiate between the two, let's look at a few differentiating factors.

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The Impact on your Bottom Line due to Commoditization: Products and Services Don't Commoditize; Sales People DO!

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Providing CEO's, Presidents and Business Owners with Executable Strategies that Target the Problems Inherent in Sales, Sales Management and Sales Recruiting

Why do so many sales people jump through hoops to get the prospect’s attention then deliver a stellar presentation, only to have the prospect go with a competitor who comes in at a lower price? To learn more call Peak Performance today at 866-816-0991

Are your products/services overpriced? Are your competition’s offerings under priced?

Why does the prospect perceive your product as a mere commodity—easily replaceable by any number of competitive products?

To read the balance of this tip please visit http://www.peakperformancesalestraining.com/content/impact-your-bottom-line-due-commoditization-products-and-services-don%E2%80%99t-commoditize-sales

 

 

The Difference Between Top Sales Performers and the Rest

The Ability to View Obstacles as Opportunity

Business Owners, CEO's and Presidents: Do your sales people have more excuses and reasons for failing to meet quotas? Or do they develop, implement and stick with a different and more productive course of action?

In these difficult economic times sales people become quite black and white. In other words the difference between top performers and rest becomes quite clear.

For those of you who find it difficult to differentiate between the two, let's look at a few differentiating factors.

To read this tip in full please visit http://www.peakperformancesalestraining.com/content/difference-between-top-sales-performers-and-rest-ability-view-obstacles-opportunity

The Making of an Expert!

The Making of an Expert! : Are you searching for self proclaimed sales experts or are you working to make experts of your people?

In a recent Harvard Business Review article new research shows that outstanding performance is the product of years of deliberate practice and coaching, not of any innate talent or skill.You are expects with your products, services, delivery and support, right? However how effective is your sales team when it comes to their sales expertise? The only experts in sales are those who get paid!

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In this article written Harvard Business Review it was discussed how thirty years ago to Hungarian educators, Laszlo and Klara Polgar, decided to challenge that popular assumption that woman do not succeed in areas requiring special thinking, such as chess. The Polgars home schooled three daughters and as part of their education they were taught to play chess at a very young age. With continued daily training and dedication their approach paid off. By 2000 all three daughters were ranked in the top ten female players in the world. There youngest was a grand master at age 15, breaking the previous record for the youngest held by Bobby Fisher!

In 1985, Benjamin Bloom a professor at the University if Chicago wrote a book on the subject that examined the factors that led to developing real talent. His findings show that there is no real correlation between becoming an expert and IQ. The only correlation found was that in the case of sports or physical activities where body height and size did matter to a certain degree. This however is simply not applicable in sales, which is solely an intellectual game. All of the superb performers, regardless of field practiced intensely and had studied with devoted teachers. Later research found that the amount and quality of practice were key factors in the level of expertise people achieved.

Now this may sound a bit self serving coming from a Sales and Sales Management Training Company. However the question is what course of action have you taken in order to increase and sustain sales? To determine growth gaps that impact revenue please visit http://www.peakperformancesalestraining.com/CEOSolutions/ComplimentaryCE... for your Complimentary CEO Diagnostic.

Have you resorted to searching for the so called sales expert? Remember one thing. In the interview all sales candidates believe they are the best! Never forget that inherent in sales people is something called an ego. Were you sold on their ability, only to be disappointed with their inability to actually sell! Or have you actually invested in your sales team as you do in other areas of your company. Have you actually provided them with the tools and discipline to become effective sales people?

If you find yourself at this point in this article then this subject is obviously of importance to you. Understand your options. Fix them, fire them or grin and bear with it. Firing them leaves you with one bad option of having to rely on the same hiring criteria that led you to hire your current group of under producers. Grinning and bearing with it is simply acceptance of mediocrity and quite simply put you do not have a sales problem. You may have a management problem. Do not allow your sales problem to become a management problem!

For example, look any professional athlete, regardless of their skill level or their internal belief that they can move mountains. Are they simply drafted, followed by being placed on the field? Or are they put through on-going, rigorous and disciplined practice sessions prior to and during the entire season? Could your one week of product knowledge training followed by occasional pep talks be part of the problem?

Your ability to grow your company is contingent upon your sales team ability to consistently sell and outsell competition. You must look at the “Gap”. The “Gap” is the difference between where you are and where you are capable of being. One way to gauge the Gap is to answer the following question.

On a scale of 1-10 (10 being the highest) where would you rank your current sales teams ability to actually develop new business?

Now a 10 would relate to a sales team/people who:

 Proactively and effectively prospect to identify and open new opportunities

 Consistently diplomatically challenge and dissolve objections

 Clearly differentiate your unique services opposed to commoditizing them

 Hold margins opposed to price slashing eroding your margins

 Get decisions from decision makers sooner rather than later

 Do not waste time chasing pipeline hopefuls and invest time developing new business

Now, what is your answer? The difference between where you are and where you are capable of being now can be translated into sales revenue. Are you 60%, 70% or 80% effective? How is this impacting your bottom line?

Our final question is, are you OK with the way things are?

At Peak Performance we essentially get two types of inquiries. We get the Business Owner or President who has problems, however they simply sit back, grin and bear with it. The second type has the same problems as the first however these problems are in the hands on someone who is proactive and decisive. These are leaders who are at least open-minded to exploring their options.

If you have come to the point where your options are limited contact us today. The cost of accepting your current situation is significantly more than the cost of investigating what might be the difference between where you are and where you deserve to be. Call Peak Performance Sales Training today at 866-816-0991 to discuss viable options.

 

Effectively dealing with Resistant Sales People Part 1

The economy is changing, buyers are more skeptical and you are working harder and longer for the same or less revenue. You have concluded the necessity for or have been asked to lead a change initiative. The problem identified is that what you or your organization have been relying business development specific simply is not working to the point where you can gain the traction necessary to get to the next level. The time, energy, effort and desire are present, however real change and the results are not.

 

Business Owners: Are you facing Growth Obstacles, Stagnant Sales or an Inconsistent approach to Sales that has you stuck on the Sales Plateau?

How much of a role do you play in your own level of dissatisfaction?

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Change triggers fear reactions and these reactions can lead to resistance. Understanding the fears the cause resistance to change will help you to find communication strategies to reduce the amount of resistance that can impede you from achieving the results you desire.

So, you are going over the same thing with the same sales people each Monday morning, right. They nod, smile and acknowledge your advice however by Tuesday you find them exhibiting the same counterproductive behavior we were discussing the day before!

First let’s understand the cause. Sales people resist change because of a variety of reasons. 

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The Impact on your Bottom Line due to Commoditization: Products and Services Don't Commoditize; Sales People DO!

By Peak Performance Training and Development www.peakperformancesalestraining.com

Providing CEO's, Presidents and Business Owners with Executable Strategies that Target the Problems Inherent in Sales, Sales Management and Sales Recruiting

Why do so many sales people jump through hoops to get the prospect’s attention then deliver a stellar presentation, only to have the prospect go with a competitor who comes in at a lower price? To learn more call Peak Performance today at 866-816-0991

Are your products/services overpriced? Are your competition’s offerings under priced?

Why does the prospect perceive your product as a mere commodity—easily replaceable by any number of competitive products?

To read the balance of this tip please visit http://www.peakperformancesalestraining.com/content/impact-your-bottom-line-due-commoditization-products-and-services-don%E2%80%99t-commoditize-sales

 

 

The Impact on your Bottom Line due to Commoditization: Products and Services Don’t Commoditize; Sales People DO!

By Peak Performance Training and Development www.peakperformancesalestraining.com

Providing CEO’s, Presidents and Business Owners with Executable Strategies that Target the Problems Inherent in Sales, Sales Management and Sales Recruiting

Why do so many sales people jump through hoops to get the prospect’s attention then deliver a stellar presentation, only to have the prospect go with a competitor who comes in at a lower price? 

To learn more call Peak Performance today at 866-816-0991

Are your products/services overpriced? Are your competition’s offerings under priced?

Why does the prospect perceive your product as a mere commodity—easily replaceable by any number of competitive products?

Has the prospect become a smarter and better negotiator, or do they simply hear the same needs-focused pitch from you and everyone else, that ultimately demotes your superior solution to commodity status?

Why You?

Why you? This is the question most prospects ask themselves when dealing with a sales person for the first time. Why should I buy from you? Most sales people respond with the obvious and expected answers:

1. We have the best product
2. We have the best services
3. We have the best price (having the best price is often a contradiction in terms)
4. We have been in business for years

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