Sales Prospecting [Sales Process Part 1 of 9]

Описание: The sales process starts with prospecting. This is how we find potential future customers – or ‘prospects’.

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Sales and Selling Skills
This video is part of course module 8.4.1
Program 8: Managing Customers and Clients
Course 4: Sales / Selling Skills
Section 1: The Sales Process

Other videos that describe the Sales Process:
🎬 The Sales Process    • The Sales Process - a Summary of the 9 Ste...  
🎬 Pre-Sales Activities    • Pre-Sales Activities [Sales Process Part 2...  
🎬 Rapport Building    • Sales Meeting Rapport Building [Sales Proc...  
🎬 Opening the Sales Meeting    • Opening the Sales Meeting [Sales Process P...  
🎬 Diagnosing the Need    • Diagnosis: Diagnosing the Customer's Need ...  
🎬 Presenting Solutions    • Presenting Solutions [Sales Process Part 6...  
🎬 Handling Objections    • Handling Objections to the Sale [Sales Pro...  
🎬 Seeking Commitment    • Seeking Commitment - Closing the Sale [Sal...  
🎬 After Sales Activities    • After-Sales Activities [Sales Process Part...  


LESSON NOTES
How we find prospects:
The prospects identify themselves
Prospects identify each other
The salesperson identifies the prospects
Going where the prospects are
Happenstance

The sales team may then contact potential prospects through any of the possible communications channels.

Mailshots can be:
broad - with the goal of identifying prospects or
focused, with the aim of progressing a potential prospect to the next stage of a buying process.
They need to be personal, clear on the benefits you are offering, and to the point.
For broad mailshots, suggest an action that will benefit the prospect and give you information that you can use to qualify the prospect, like an interaction with your website.
For focused mailing, follow-up with a call.

Using emails (or even text messages) are adaptations of this approach.

The one that is different is cold calling. The essentials are to prepare:
• What you are going to say
• Yourself – your readiness and enthusiasm for the call

Closing Thoughts
Rejection is a part of the process. You need 10, 20, 50, or 100 rejections for every success - depending on what product or service you are selling.

RECOMMENDED EXERCISE
1. How does your business find new prospects? (1 MC CPD Point)
2. If you had to create sales from nothing, where could you find a set of prospects? (1 MC CPD Point for each distinct answer - no extras for variations on an idea)

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RECOMMENDED READING
There are many books that introduce sales and selling. These are the ones I have, and can recommend:
📖 To Sell Is Human https://geni.us/L2EQmt
📖 The Only Sales Guide You'll Ever Need https://geni.us/AEAVD5
📖 The New Strategic Selling https://geni.us/Zt2Z9n3
📖 SPIN Selling https://geni.us/Ir5xu
📖 The Psychology of Selling https://geni.us/AjR8AA


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CHAPTER MARKERS
00:00 - The sales process starts with prospecting
00:16 - How to identify prospects
00:27 - First source of Prospects
00:46 - Second source of Prospects
01:25 - Third source of Prospects
01:49 - Fourth source of Prospects
02:13 - Fifth source of Prospects
02:32 - Contacting prospects
03:04 - Mailshots
04:43 - Phone calls
05:08 - Email
05:46 - Prospects everywhere

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