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5 Essential Sales Questions

To help a client move from 'I'm interested, tell me more' to 'You're hired!', sooner or later you are going to need to make ...

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Feeble Questions Can Kill Your Business

“Would you like to know the difference between these products?” “Can I explain what makes us ...

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Questions are the Answer

Questions are the answer when selling. If you ask the right questions, your potential clients will sell themselves on your products or services. You will ...

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How to Avoid Wasting Time on Prospects Who CAN’T or WON’T Buy

Do you have blind faith that, if you can somehow convince a prospect to engage in a sales cycle, you will eventually make a sale? ...

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Answer Based Questioning - By: Ron La Vine

Have you ever begun to think to yourself while you are on the phone speaking with a prospect, What am I going to say next? Try ...

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Seven Critical Qualifying Questions

Training your salespeople to not waste time working unqualified accounts, or building relationships with the wrong people in qualified companies is imperative to the long ...

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How to Use Layering Questions to Better Qualify Your Prospects

First, for those of you who have seen me live, you know that I am big on questioning your prospects during the qualification stage. As ...

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Sales Representative Resume Example With Tips and Keywords

Sales Resume Tips A good Sales resume is result-oriented. So emphasize on your ...

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How to Use Assumptive Questions When Selling

There are all kinds of questions a sales rep can ask -- closed-ended, open-ended, directive, etc. -- but none are more valuable than the assumption ...

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Why I Hate (Most) Benefit Statements

Benefits are what motivate people to purchase from you, right? Not exactly. Just last week I was reviewing a rundown of product benefits with a client who ...

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Decision Makers vs. Influencers

What salesperson has not been disappointed to hear he/she has lost a deal as the result of selling to the wrong person? Despite asking, many ...

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Qualifying and Questioning the Red Flags

One of the biggest mistakes 80% of salespeople make when qualifying is to overlook or not react to obvious Red Flags prospects give during the ...

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How to Use Questions to Gain More Selling Power And Show Prospects What They Want Most

Studies show that most people approach a buying decision with some level of anxiety. The truth is, they really don’t want to have to make ...

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How to Close Larger Deals by Effectively Qualifying Your Sales Prospects

Qualifying your prospects is a critical step in the overall sales cycle. Creating situational awareness for your potential client will increase your probability of closing ...

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Qualifying Your Prospects

How do you respond when an absolute stranger calls, at work or at home, and begins to ask questions? "Are you the person who??" "What ...

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How to Acquire More Sales Leads – An Interesting Survey

The most effective prospecting techniques were revealed in the August 1st, 2002, issue of TIP (URL at end of article) that resulted from a survey ...

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B2B Sales Leads Success Checklist

You’ve spent a great deal of time, effort and money putting together your business-to-business sales lead generation programs. How you handle B2B sales leads once ...

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Are you selling at the right level?

One of the common mistakes salespeople make is they fail to recognize at what level they should be selling their products or services. ...

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Capitalize on Sales Questions

People who call your company to gather information represent a reservoir of prospects just waiting to be converted into customers. ...

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Ten Sales Basics - Ten Ways to Strengthen and Sharpen Your Repertoire of Selling Skills

Even if you think you're well versed in the selling basics, it's important to keep your skills razor sharp. Sales ...

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Are You Asking Provocative Qualifying Questions to Increase Sales?

The other night on TV, I saw an ESPN special on the Football Hall of Fame. Just before the final commercial ...

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Prosperity Means Producing Prospects: 11 Ways to Find New Business and 12 Steps to Great Sales Leads

Are you satisfied with the number of sales you are making? If you are not, there is only one thing ...

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3 Steps to Perfect Probing

One day a young, hardworking grocery clerk was stocking lettuce in the produce section. The fair haired clerk, whose promotion was imminent, was ...

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Surviving The Mid Sale Crisis - Influencing Decision Guidlines

In this article, we explore the skills and strategies, which help to win major sales we examine the issues arising in the evaluation of options ...

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Are Your Sales Lagging Because You Are Failing to Ask for the Business?

During a presentation in front of over 50 small business owners, I was asked if I could share everything that I know about performance improvement ...

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