Behind every top performing athlete is a coach, or trainer. The role of the coach is to advise, support, teach new techniques and ultimately guide the athlete to success. The same can be said for sales coaches too. Sales training is nothing new, and yet is certainly becoming more and more common. However sales training […]
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Multi-tasking can be quite efficient for certain job roles and for certain tasks. However, can multi-tasking be quite detrimental for sales professionals. I see it all too often; a sales professional with a million and one tabs open on their browser, emails being replied one by one as they come on, text messages being answered,
Never give up after one follow up! It happens so often; many business owners and sales professionals will only send one follow up to a prospect, never hear back, and then give up. Here’s a scenario. You meet someone that has shown an interest in your product or service. You have a meeting to understand
Business networking events are a fantastic way to make new connections, interact with other business owners and to also look for new avenues of business. Networking has been a solid staple of business owners and sales professionals alike for decades and that simply proves that it does work. Plus, let’s face it, you also normally
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It’s our birthday! Can you believe it?! A whole year ago today I sat down at this very desk here and started officially working for Paragon Sales Solutions – and what a year it has been. As many of you may know, Paragon was only set up really for me. Coming away from full time
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A lot of sales people and business owners spend a lot of time and energy on closing sales. They set targets, they brag to their friends and peers and jobs are sometimes lost over how few sales are closed in a set amount of time. Closing a sale is of course very important; without doing
Sales can be made or lost simply down to the way we communicate. Of course, a successful sales person should know that it is far more important to listen than it is to speak, however the ability to talk is vitally important during a sales conversation – understandably. The way in which we speak can
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To be a sales person, you do not really need any training, and you do not need to look after your health; both physical and mental. However, to be a top performing sales professional you need to stay on top of your sales training, keep abreast of new techniques and skills, and to ensure that
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With the New Year underway, many businesses are starting to plot and plan out the year ahead. One of the big talking points as always will be sales. We all know that without sales a business simply cannot operate, or at the very least, cannot grow and start to scale up. That is where we
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Over the past year or so, there has been a new ‘hot term’ doing the rounds within the sales industry: Social Selling. People have started to sell courses on social selling, debates have been broadcast on the benefits of social selling and some even claim that sales people can meet their targets solely by using
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