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7 Winning Steps for Effective Objection Handling

Salesforce

We learned very quickly that the biggest obstacle to closing new business isn’t the objections themselves, it’s how the team manages the objections. The key to effective objection handling is using a question-based framework that puts the prospect at ease. Why is objection handling important?

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Objection Handling vs Negotiation: 10 Tips to Win the Deal

Sales Hacker

If you confuse objection handling and negotiating , you could be losing sales. . In this article, we’ll look at what objection handling and negotiating are (and what they aren’t). Then we’ll go in-depth to look at 5 techniques for handling objections and sales negotiation, so you always walk away with a win.

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B2B Reads: Objection Handling, Risk Taking, and the Benefit of the Doubt

Heinz Marketing

In most organizations with a strong sense of moral motivation, the leaders are always great storytellers, and that’s no coincidence. 3 Simple Rules to Improve Objection Handling. Don’t lose control of the conversation by mishandling the objections that get thrown at you. Thanks for your insight, Colleen Francis.

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The Ultimate Guide to Objection Handling: 40 Common Sales Objections & How to Respond

Hubspot

To be successful, reps must learn how to both discover and resolve these objections. What Is Objection Handling? Objection handling is when a prospect presents a concern about the product/service a salesperson is selling, and the salesperson responds in a way that alleviates those concerns and allows the deal to move forward.

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Shortcuts Are Seldom Short….

Partners in Excellence

The same objection handling and closing techniques, Carefully constructed phraseology no longer resonates because everyone else is using the same technique. When we finally find these shortcuts, they don;t last very long because everyone else is doing the same thing. And the answers ChatGPT gives us are the same it gives everyone else.

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How to Create a Sense of Urgency in the Mind of Your Customer

Cerebral Selling

One of the biggest reasons salespeople fail to create a sense of urgency in the mind of their customers is because they mistakenly focus too heavily on business cases and not nearly enough on their customer’s emotional motivators (i.e. I refer to this in my objection handling course as “ turning the future into the past ”).

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6 Lessons Learned from A Year of Pandemic Selling

Cerebral Selling

ROI is an objective statistic. And these feelings are the TRUE driver of buying behavior. Softening statements acknowledge the validity of the objection and act as a calming mechanism. Related article: 3 Objection-Handling Lessons from Pandemic Politics. The best sellers lead their customers into the future.

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