There is an art to making the sale and closing deals. It’s part psychology, part problem-solving, and a ton of active listening skills. There are a few key things you can master that will help you close more deals and have more effective meetings. Establishing a good meeting process Understanding your prospect’s pain points (and how your offering solves them) Listening for buying signals and being …
The Process: Crack the Code on Business Development
Read more as we explore in depth what happens and what you can accomplish when you have a properly working business development program.
Crack the Code on Business Development
What we’ve learned at BDPros through over a decade of experience in process-based sales, marketing, and operations is that you can’t separate the three when it comes to B2B business development. We’ve tried the siloed approach, and it does okay – until it doesn’t. Getting the entire team – marketing, sales, and operations – to come together can be like herding cats sometimes, but luckily for you we’ve learned how to herd cats and we’re going to give you some of our secrets.
Your Sales Plan is Your Roadmap
So you’ve put together your sales plan in December or January – time to get selling, right? Gotta hit those KPIs! But how often do you consult that sales plan? When do you reflect and review? When do you make edits? We set our goals and do our best, and hopefully – if we’re good at what we do and we’re lucky – we hit those …
5 Tips to Help You Set Meaningful Goals
Setting goals can be tough and there is a lot of good (and not-so-good) advice out there, but it can still be confusing. It’s important to set SMART goals and important to set achievable goals, but how do you determine your goals? There’s no perfect formula, but there are some methods we use to make the decision-making process easier. 1) You should have more goals than …
Benefits of Outsourcing Sales: Pipeline, Process, People
Why Outsource Sales? Sales is both complicated and simple at the same time. The goal: sell something. The method: an unlimited number of options. It can be overwhelming for a sales team to keep track of, let alone a single salesperson. What strategy do you choose, and why? Do you cold call or send emails? What systems do you use to keep track of everything? This …