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. Repeat business. Just don’t muck it up by becoming lazy, overconfident, or complacent! It’s selling without … actually selling. . appeared first on Adaptive Business Services.

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Adaptive Business Services

MAY 11, 2022

One of the techniques often discussed in selling is that of creating a sense of urgency in order to move a client from the thinking to the acting stage. I don’t much care for the term “creating” as it implies some sort of artificial emergency that is conjured up by the salesperson in order to close the sale. Now add them up.

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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? The difference between “knowing” and “reflex” your selling fundamentals. The post Master Your Selling Fundamentals First!

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Adaptive Business Services

JULY 27, 2022

I remember when I first got into B2B sales selling expensive office equipment. While techs never had any quotas, they were encouraged to sell time and material service, maintenance agreements, and supplies. Throw away the objection handling and conquering techniques. If you screw up, own up. They’re there.

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Adaptive Business Services

APRIL 27, 2022

When I started as a B2B sales trainee in 1977, one of the senior representatives, Lance, shared with me his favorite sales technique. We were selling expensive professional desktop calculators. . Lance would sell the $479 calculator by telling folks that this was what they needed but that they could only afford the $349 model.

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Adaptive Business Services

MARCH 30, 2022

It was a modified version of Xerox Professional Selling Skills. This was classic sales training for the time and it all led up to the big moment where you have to ask for the order. Now, I know more closing techniques than I have fingers and toes and I use … none of them. There was always one glaring challenge.

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Lead Fuze

JULY 6, 2021

And it’s not over yet; now comes the biggest hurdle… pricing up your offering. With a cost-plus pricing strategy, businesses only focus on the costs of producing their products or services. This results in the marking up prices to cover that and make money. No small feat, right? One way they do this?

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Adaptive Business Services

JULY 24, 2019

Educate vs. sell – Establish yourself as the authority. Cushioning, providing reasons before asking tough questions or having to deliver unwanted answers, is a powerful technique! Additionally, you pop up at the least expected times with unexpected items of value. Beware of selling vs non-selling time.

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Adaptive Business Services

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

This technique has evolved over my 40 years of B2B selling. This technique is based on the premise that, when you are perceived as someone who actually works for the company, vs. as a vendor who is trying to sell something to that company … well … there is no comparison. How do you sell? You don’t sell!

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Adaptive Business Services

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Every week it seems that I either run across, or I am introduced to, some really great new apps and articles that pertain to social selling. Backed up files are never where I expect them to be and it seems to slow down my computer at the least opportune of times. Have you ever: Lost a deal because you forgot to follow up?

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Adaptive Business Services

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Finally becoming open to the possibility that this phenomenon might be an effective business tool (nobody talked about social selling back then), I jumped in with both feet and … it seemed that none of it would ever make any sense. Social Selling augments, rather than replaces, traditional selling strategies and techniques.

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Adaptive Business Services

AUGUST 2, 2017

I started B2B selling in 1977. Looking back, about the only selling skill that I really excelled at was product knowledge and I could give one hell of a good demo. If you have monkeys of your own … don’t give up. I decided that I just wanted to sell but, could I sell? My selling style changes. I was a wreck.

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Cience

JANUARY 6, 2020

In most cases, the buyer persona is defined by a company prior to creating a product or service. It outlines what you sell and to whom and describes what business problems and tasks you can solve for a particular business. Advanced techniques include Predictive Scoring and developing Lookalikes to current best customers.

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Adaptive Business Services

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Yet, it’s also very simple … don’t sell. Throw every sales technique that you have ever learned right out the window. In its simplest form, stealth selling ditches conventional selling techniques. Changes like considering your product or service. Sounds crazy, but it works. We’re about to go stealth.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2014

Let’s say your business has only been up and running for a relatively short time. For example, the company GrooveHQ took advantage of using it’s welcome email to trial customers to ask why they signed up. With a little competitive analysis you can create compelling copy, especially if what you sell isn’t unique.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This is my personal story of how I went from having a job I did not like at all, not knowing what to do with my life to building several successful businesses. I’ll share my lessons I picked up along the way. “So, did you sell anything today? It all started in Dubai. I worked hard and was eager to kick butt.

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Sell Or Die

MAY 31, 2018

Exectras is a membership-based, discount services company that "optimize business performance" and "empower employees". Companies pay a monthly fee which gives them access to performance business services at discounted rates. It's the only choice for the true Sell or Diehard! Subscribe to the Sell or Die Podcast!

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Lead Fuze

AUGUST 5, 2021

One of the best resources on the internet for anyone who sells stuff. 24 Examples of Sales Follow Up Email Subject Line. Highly informative articles giving detailed advice on successful techniques to employ as well as fun co-conspiratorial content to inspire motivation. Email Open Rates By Industry: See How You Stack Up.

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Adaptive Business Services

MAY 28, 2025

They invested in teaching us how to sell really sell starting with the basics and drilling the fundamentals until they became second nature. No endless flood of LinkedIn tips, email hacks, AI tools, or daily “10 new sales techniques you must try!” Sure, it was old-school selling. No internet.

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Adaptive Business Services

JANUARY 29, 2025

Its up to the servant leader to develop a culture of recognition and appreciation for each other. Enhances individual performance – Sales people in a team environment learn from each other better ways to sell. This is the toughest part of the sales team-building process. It invariably starts at the top and filters down.As

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