Why spend the last two weeks of December cleaning your office when you could be filling next year’s pipeline with new business? Most business leaders and salespeople believe that trying to reach prospects at year-end is pointless and instead spend time getting...
A Prospect’s Back to School Mentality Can Help You Grow Sales
Did you ever notice people become more serious at the beginning of September? Gone are the lazy days of summer and in front of us are four important months before year end. I call this the “Back to School Mentality.” I see it as much amongst adults as I do amongst...
When to Give Up on a Prospect
When decision makers say, “No thank you," should you keep trying or cut your losses? My experience is that as long as the prospect is someone whom your research indicates is an “A” level prospect there is no reason to give up, unless you receive new information that...
Hiring Sellers From the “Market Leader” Doesn’t Guarantee Results
Every company is different, and a salesperson who is a perfect fit for one company may be a bad hire at another. Many people who sell successfully for other companies may not sell well for you. I once worked with a newer company that spent well into six figures to...
Using the “Assume Close” Strategy to Open Doors
The "Assume Close" strategy when opening doors has proven exceptionally successful, especially when working on securing meetings with difficult to reach corporate decision makers. Most recently, one of our Door Openers® used it and booked a meeting with a high level...
Personalization Counts When Prospecting
It sounds like a no-brainer, doesn’t it? We personalize our conversations all day long with the people we know. It comes to us as naturally as reaching for our first cup of coffee in the morning. Yet, in all my years of selling and coaching others to sell,...
Getting the Most from Prospect Meetings
It's not easy to get a meeting with a decision maker. So when you have one, it had better go well! Have you ever finished a meeting and wished you achieved a better outcome, gotten further into the discussion or secured better next steps? We call this "the valuable...
Get the Prospect Meetings You Want
Did you ever wonder why some sellers can get the “difficult to get” prospect meetings and others can’t? These are the meetings with high level, hard to reach prospects. Do you have some of these prospects on your wish list? Imagine what meeting these people could do...
Expert Jack Daly endorses Kopp’s Door Opener® Service
“We have finally found an outsource Door Opening Service that works!” Jack Daly is a sales and sales management expert who has led sales forces numbering in the thousands, operating out of hundreds of offices nationwide. Click below to hear Jack discuss how the Door...
Every Word Matters – Finding the Right Language
Did you ever wish you had more compelling language when speaking with prospects? Most companies spend very little time, if any, developing their sales message and making sure it works. You’ve spent time developing your website and brochure; you may even have a trade...
Why Inbound Marketing Alone Doesn’t Always Deliver High Level Prospect Meetings
It’s no secret that buyer behavior has changed with the ease of information access we all enjoy through the internet. With a click of the mouse, we can get what we need to evaluate new products and services. There’s no doubt that shifting some dollars to digital...
Protecting One of Your Most Valuable, Yet Overlooked Assets: Your Sales Pipeline
One of the most important decisions a business owner can make is how to protect one of the company’s most valuable assets…the sales pipeline. The relationships that you and your team have built with customers and prospects will lead to future income. Some prospects...