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80% Of Prospects Use One Of Five Common Objections

Tibor Shanto

Ask any group of salespeople why they don’t like telephone prospecting, objections or rejections are number one on the list. While every cold call or prospecting call will result in an objection, the objections are not all that different. Your question can be a key to unlocking a train of thought. Sell Different !

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From Legacy to Modern Sales Approaches, Objections | Part 6

Iannarino

The Gist: The legacy approaches to sales are designed to overcome objections. The legacy approach to handling objections is inadequate to resolve these concerns for our clients. Legacy Laggard: Overcoming Objections. Legacy Solution: Overcoming Objections + Proof. Part 2 | The Starting Question. Part 3 | Information.

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The Only Two OKRs for Sales

Iannarino

The more you focus on these major outcomes, the better your results. The idea of the OKR (Objective and Key Results) comes from Andy Grove, the CEO of Intel in the early seventies. The objective is your goal, clearly expressed. The key results are three to five results that track the achievement of the objective.

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3 Keys That Determine the Length of Your Sales Cycle

Understanding the Sales Force

This could result in a shorter sales cycle, but since you didn’t reach the decision maker and sell value, you probably won’t win this business. Using statistics from Objective Management Group’s (OMG) assessments of around 2.5 And there’s the problem.

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Want to increase sales?

Tibor Shanto

What hypothesis I am proposing is this: Ambition is key – investing energy in low balling targets will hurt you in the long run. If the reasons why goals are set to be a stretch is new to you I’d recommend you read this post about OKR grading as it outlines the science of why ambition is key to team and organisational success.

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A Better Way To Data Driven Discovery

Tibor Shanto

Most use data/stats as an object to be thrown, with the hope the prospect becomes sufficiently impressed to move forward. In this case we focus on things that are just beyond reach, and opportunities missed as a result. This will help you understand objectives and outcomes to focus your questions on, leaving the datapoint for later.

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Your Numbers Have To Add Up

Tibor Shanto

But there is no denying that a lack of quality prospects leads to the same poor results. It’s like those idiots who say, “value is subjective,” it’s not, it can be very objective, measurable and addressable. It is about what you do and the results, which is why half prefer to operate in the subjective. How Do You Feel?