Some Words Are Better To Use In The Sales Conversation

December 20, 2021May 28, 2019 by telesales_editor

Some words are better to use in the sales conversation than others. On the phone, words have 25% importance so avoid words that cause resistance. Below are a few common mistakes. 1. Never use the word ‘BUT’ to counter an objection This one little word, ‘but’, is often used when responding to an objection and … Read more

Building Rapport Technique For Sales Success

December 20, 2021July 15, 2016 by telesales_editor

This building rapport technique requires you to listen for your customer’s language patterns. This is a challenging skill to acquire but if you can start to be aware of your own communication style and that of others, you will quickly become a great rapport builder. When we use our customer’s preferred language style, we become like them, and we all know that people buy from people they know like and trust.

We communicate in 3 ways but we generally have a preference for one or a combination of 2 of the following ways.

1. Building Rapport Technique with Auditory People

These people communicate through their ears. They use language like “I hear what you are saying”, “Tell me more about it”, “Explain to me how it works”, “It sounds good”, “That rings a bell”, “I hear what you are saying”.

2. Building Rapport Technique with Visual People

These people communicate through their eyes. They use language like “I see what you mean”, “Can you show me how to do that”, “It looks like I will be going ahead with that appointment” , “I see what you mean”.

3. Building Rapport Technique with Kinaesthetic People

These people communicate through their feelings. They use language like, “I get the feeling this is not the right product for us”, “I would have to experience it to get to grips with what it is about”, “I need to grasp the concept”, “How do you feel about that?”.

Great Questions On A Telephone Sales Call

December 20, 2021June 15, 2016 by telesales_editor

Why Ask Questions?

It is important to ask great questions on a telephone sales call to build rapport early. That way you find out people’s needs before you start telling them what you have to offer. Ideally they should begin with What, Why, Where, When, How, Which and Who so that the customer has to expand on what they want and they cannot answer “no”. They should create pain with the customer or give them pleasure because those are the two reasons people want your services.

Making Sales by Phone Can Be Marred By One Mannerism

December 20, 2021January 13, 2016 by telesales_editor

Making sales by phone requires skill. One of the main reasons some staff (particularly new staff) fail at prospecting is that they do not sound confident . Well, if you are new, understandably you may not feel confident so you might need to be trained in some simple techniques how to sound confident. You might have to fake it till you make it. This is so important as no-one is going to buy from someone who is not sounding confident in themselves or their product or service. Your job is to generate such confidence in your product or service and transfer your energy to the prospect on the other end of the phone.

When making sales by phone, here are 5 simple techniques to sound confident

How To Build Rapport On The Phone

December 20, 2021November 26, 2015 by telesales_editor

People buy from people who are like them so we need to become as much like our customer as we can to build rapport. We have talked about ways to build rapport before in the telesales tips newsletters like copying a customer’s speed, talking the same auditory, visual or kinaesthetic language, asking open-ended questions and demonstrating listening skills. Now let’s look at another way to build rapport.

I was training a team in a large contact centre recently when one person said, “I really like this new script you have given us. It is much more concise and to the point and we have had a 33% increase in sales overall in our first week of using it. We have been taught to chat to the customer a lot more and ask them all about their pets before we start selling the idea of buying raffle tickets to raise money for the RSPCA.”. The light switch went on for me. Their trainer clearly did not have an awareness of the DISC profiling of the basic four different styles of people or customers. He was quite right to teach the chat style to his team to build rapport but only if the customer spoken to was an Influencer (I) on the DISC profiling system or a Steadiness (S) type of person on the Disc Profiling System. The S and the I are social people people who like to chat to you. However, if you are talking to the Dominance style of person (D) or the Conforming style of person (C) these people want you to get to the point, tell them why you rang and what the bottom line is, then get off the phone.

8 Lessons From A Horrible Retail Sales Experience

December 20, 2021October 30, 2015 by telesales_editor

1. When you call someone with an offer and they say “NO,” you can call them again because the next time they might be in a different space. Persistence does work if you do it in a nice, non pushy way.

2. When negotiating, don’t drop the price too dramatically just to get the sale. It makes it look like you were trying to rip the client off in the first place and makes the client suspicious that the products have much less value.

3. Do not lie to get a sale. Offer the client the right option for them even if you lose a bit of commission.

4. Pay the client a compliment when you first meet them . Comments and criticism do not build rapport.

5. People like to know the name of the person they are dealing with so provide it.

6. Do not be too familiar with new clients. Not everyone likes hugs and kisses from a stranger.

7. Do not make the customer call you about an error on delivery. You call them as soon as you find out.

8. If a client complains, acknowledge the client straight away before they tell thousands of people .

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Tone on the Phone Or Sales Skills?

December 20, 2021April 21, 2015 by telesales_editor

I like to go to other Sales Trainer’s seminars occasionally to hear what they are teaching. My curiosity got the better of me when I actually went to hear Jordan Belfont, (from the movie “The Wolf of Wall Street”), now turned sales trainer after a stint in jail. Personally I felt very uncomfortable in his … Read more

How To Get Leads and Build Rapport (A Clever Way)

December 20, 2021October 1, 2014 by telesales_editor

A postcard from Stephen, a salesman at Mcgrath Real Estate arrived the week before Father’s Day with a competition to win a $500 prize. “Write in 25 words or less why your Dad is the best”. I let my 2 sons know and asked them to do the competition. My younger son did it straight away and after 4 days of reminders, my older son had not done it. I asked him if there was a reason why he had not done it and he said, “Oh, it will just be an excuse for the real estate agent to keep ringing us or mailing us because they will want us to give our phone number and email.” I pointed out that the reason for doing it would be to win a prize for Dad and that he could easily unsubscribe from any information that was sent by the real estate agent in the future. He then sent his submission in but I feared it would have missed the deadline of 5pm Friday before Fathers Day.

As my older son predicted, sure enough, at 9.30 am on Saturday, the phone rang and it was Stephen from Mcgrath Real Estate.