Adaptive Business Services

MARCH 23, 2022

welcome to “How I Work It – Social Selling”. There is a lot of confusion, particularly with B2B, regarding how to implement social selling. Our hope is that these folks will inspire those of you are still on the fence and our goal is to share with you some of the best proven selling practices that you might wish to emulate!

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Adaptive Business Services

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Yet, it’s also very simple … don’t sell. In its simplest form, stealth selling ditches conventional selling techniques. We are able to do so because the people who work for the company, the company that you are selling to, do none of these things. . Changes like considering your product or service. A walletectomy.

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Adaptive Business Services

AUGUST 25, 2021

A few weeks ago I was asked to coffee by a young man who I knew who was struggling a little bit with his selling. In my experience, there are 3 areas that are critical to selling success …. Prospecting – The ability to go out and to find new business. Keys to selling success. This applies to all aspects of selling.

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Adaptive Business Services

AUGUST 11, 2021

One of the nicest things about Nimble CRM is that it can be highly customized in order to meet your specific needs including as a Signage CRM …. Up to 1,000 custom data fields in a wide range of field formats. Thank you and good selling! Customized pipelines with deal stages including the maximum number of days in each stage.

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Adaptive Business Services

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Then I wake up. As someone who has spent his entire life in sales, and was an early proponent of social selling, the internet offers a variety of awesome opportunities! I was once very active on Twitter (I forced myself) and ended up deleting my account. Ain’t gonna’ happen and I’m ok with that. I have never liked Facebook.

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Adaptive Business Services

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Be aware of selling vs. non-selling time. Selling time is for being in front of a customer. Non-selling time is for prep and paperwork. It’s coming out of that meeting and saying … “Why didn’t I do … ?!”. . Educate vs. sell – Establish yourself as the authority. They are your inbound selling tools.

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Adaptive Business Services

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

In an earlier article I spoke a bit about returning to my roots … selling. My roots also include the industry that I still consider to be the highlight of my almost 45 year B2B sales and management career … signage and, starting today, we are offering specialized sign sales services to this market segment. Virtual sales meetings.

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Adaptive Business Services

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

One of the most basic tenets of selling is that you are going to have to figure out ways to stand out in a crowd. Did not meet expectations – you are toast, burnt. . Repeat business. Just don’t muck it up by becoming lazy, overconfident, or complacent! It’s selling without … actually selling. .

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Adaptive Business Services

JUNE 2, 2021

This is pretty easy to understand if your perception is that CRM will, at best, inhibit your selling. An Implementation Workshop addressing the following should be performed to define how Nimble will be set up and configured for your business. Sales, Marketing, and Business Processes to be supported. Sell the benefits.

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Adaptive Business Services

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

You can talk about advanced selling techniques and tools all you want, but until you have a solid grasp of selling fundamentals … these exercises are meaningless. Is selling any different? It’s just not enough to meet customer expectations. The difference between “knowing” and “reflex” your selling fundamentals.

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Adaptive Business Services

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Late that Friday, my sales manager called me and told me that one of the businesses, Golden West Billiards (this was 1977!), had called and wanted to meet with me on an accounting system on Monday. . I ended up selling them two systems (they were ledger card based) and the total was over $20,000.00. Never give up.

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Adaptive Business Services

MARCH 3, 2021

Social selling leverages social tools, tactics, and strategies to complement, not replace , traditional selling methodologies. First let’s talk about where social selling excels …. It is your inbound selling tool and qualified buyers will come to you. Nowadays … think Zoom if in-person meetings are not practical.

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Adaptive Business Services

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

They don’t need to, they might represent entirely different aspects of our business, but they can. Let’s look at selling. When somebody contacts our company about our services, we need to assign this inquiry for someone to handle. If we did all of this in a workflow, we would be giving up our sales and forecast reporting.

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Adaptive Business Services

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Jump to 2022 and, while we still talk about Social Media and Social Selling and Social Networking, nobody talks about Social CRM. Someone came up with the bright idea that we should not be managing contacts, we should be managing our relationships with them … Customer Relationship Management … CRM. . Nimble is now Nimble CRM.

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Adaptive Business Services

JULY 8, 2020

Yet, as sales managers, is the team’s goal to sit at their desks or meet their sales targets? Whether in person or remote, many managers throughout the day loosely check in with each person every morning, randomly jump into coach someone, and schedule multiple training meetings. It is harder to be intentional about one’s management.

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Adaptive Business Services

APRIL 21, 2021

Social selling for introverts? Still, I embrace the tenets of social selling. This all being said, while I am task focused probably 75% of my time, I can be very socially focused one-on-one (selling and with close friends) or when in front of a group (training or presenting). What does all of this have to do with social selling?

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Adaptive Business Services

JANUARY 26, 2022

They did not meet your sweet spot. I had not given up too early. Dress for success – Specifically dress for your clientele and then bump it up a notch. Professional Selling. However, depending on their level of sophistication with your services, this research may have left them more confused than informed.

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Adaptive Business Services

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

I think that it is important for the customer to know, and to meet, these other members of the company who will be integral in ensuring their satisfaction. Everybody sells – Think about referrals from other team members. We had to use propane heat turbines under the truck to keep it from freezing up. I was the go-fer.

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Sports Sell Transportation Electricity 71

Adaptive Business Services

OCTOBER 6, 2021

And due to huge improvements in international ecommerce networks, it’s now very common for businesses (even those on the smaller size) to offer their wares throughout the world instead of just locally. This introduces some challenges, though, and one of the trickiest is figuring out how to sell to different audiences.

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Adaptive Business Services

JANUARY 13, 2021

I remember taking a selling skills assessment some years ago and one of the questions was about CRM. This was multiple choice and I answered “It helps you sell more”. . When you complete a task, set a new task for follow-up. If it helps you to sell more, you will make the time. Any CRM should be a selling tool.

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Adaptive Business Services

MAY 25, 2022

I also offer a number of enhancements for the group like a web-based database of shared leads and a very nice lunch during the meeting. On top of this, I am willing to provide members with a number of free services like a company workshop, help with configuring their LinkedIn profiles, and a free behavioral assessment.

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Adaptive Business Services

JULY 28, 2021

In 2006 I decided to leave management and go back into selling. My solution was to tear up the entire list (not joking) and pursue a completely different prospecting strategy. We met for coffee, breakfast, or lunch and discussed how we might best assist each other and then we agreed to meet again and to do so regularly!

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Adaptive Business Services

OCTOBER 20, 2021

However, the principles discussed will be applicable to any business! You simply must have certain tools and knowledge in place if you are going to maximize your selling potential. You are selling advertising. This idea also opens up opportunities with people who are not looking for signs (new construction etc.).

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Adaptive Business Services

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

However, in selling situations, there is rarely enough time to do either. A win is the natural culmination of a selling process well done! Speaking of expectations … there are only 3 possible outcomes from any selling engagement …. You did not meet their expectations – No explanation needed. You get one chance.

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Adaptive Business Services

JUNE 16, 2021

There are so many aspects to selling and each would need to be performed to perfection. I will always look for ways to maximize my chances for securing the sale and that means focusing on repeat business from existing customers as well as referrals to new ones. They are going to have to meet certain criteria prior to their pursuit.

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Adaptive Business Services

JUNE 8, 2022

There are literally tons of sources for new business opportunities. Understand the new rules – Is selling harder today than it used to be? Dress for success – Business casual is fine but, if you show up in a tie … R.U.M. Seriously, dress according to your area norms and then kick it up a notch.

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Hubspot

MARCH 27, 2023

These services range from financial counseling to tarot readings. When we think about online selling, we usually think about selling products like clothing or electronics. But, it's advantageous for businesses to sell services online, especially now, when a plethora of services can be offered virtually.

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Adaptive Business Services

APRIL 3, 2019

I’m one of those people who are keenly aware that there is selling time , when you see customers and prospects, and non-selling time , before and after work when you can do paperwork. Networking groups will generally meet for breakfast or lunch. My guess is that few will meet on Fridays and Mondays. Stay tuned!

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Adaptive Business Services

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Later, as my business began to morph, that site was repurposed to supporting our leads group and my writing focus was redirected to this site. Well, I’m mixing it up again! We might actually end up with 10 steps or maybe even 20. Would you rather make cold calls or follow-up on a referral? Since NetWorks!

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Adaptive Business Services

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

I took about 6 months off to plan my next moves and came to the decision that I wanted to go back to selling only which was something that I had not done in a great deal of time. Neither aspect was appealing, So, I did the only logical thing, I tore the list up. Additionally, I wanted to work on a commission only program. That’s what.

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Adaptive Business Services

OCTOBER 3, 2018

The simple fact is that, if you can’t sell, no app will help you to sell more. That should keep you plenty busy … until you are dead and buried. As previously discussed, you need to know who to sell and be good at. Even with a clearly defined task in mind, you may find dozens of apps that will claim to meet your needs.

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Adaptive Business Services

DECEMBER 18, 2019

You’ve built up your book of business, your marketing is a fine-tuned lead generating machine, but are your pitches closing as many deals as they should be? Countless sales professionals end up finding themselves up to their necks in administrative and remedial tasks that take precious time away from what we do best: selling.

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Adaptive Business Services

JUNE 12, 2019

The first meeting with a new person in your network is a sounding-out process. Good networkers do a “quality control” assessment of the people they meet. Consider someone saying something like this to you, after first introductions: “Great to meet you! Ignorance of business legal issues is not an option.

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Adaptive Business Services

MARCH 6, 2019

The same can be said for selling and networking. These people are from non-competing industries who will most likely refer you to potential business since they are folks who call on your same target buyers and markets. Is this a closed meeting or an open event? How often and when do they meet? What to do?

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Adaptive Business Services

JANUARY 9, 2019

Meeting targets. They don’t plan their day-to-day activities, or probably don’t even have a follow-up strategy or a sales cadence in place. The key to success in sales is to have a well-thought-out plan, and in this blog, we’ll talk about how you can go about creating a sales cadence that wins meetings and deals. Prospecting.

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Adaptive Business Services

MAY 30, 2018

There are so many free sources that are available today that will help you to become more professional at what you do … for cripes sake, take advantage of them and do so on non-selling time. You should know your product and services cover to cover. Let me give you a non-selling related example. No problem. How about you?

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Adaptive Business Services

OCTOBER 2, 2019

After all, much of B2B outbound selling is all about establishing a solid network. Georgetown University’s Dr. Andrea Bonior reminds us that cliques are an indication of pre-existing relationships , but this doesn’t necessarily mean that these people don’t want to meet you. Introductions. So how do you go about this?

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