Management | Sales
Five ways to get more sales Sales have dwindled over the past financial year for many businesses. It’s not just the lockdown followed by the snap lockdowns and the declining economy - people are nervous about interacting with one another. Raimond Volpe, CEO of Dynamo Selling, is an expert at sales and implementing systems that help individuals and businesses improve their sales figures. Raimond has also overcome major mental health breakdowns and shares his best tips for making sales in the current state of the world, following the pandemic.
1. Pick up the phone It’s becoming a rare strategy, using the telephone to close deals. The newer generation of workers is used to newer forms of contact, like email and instant messaging. Telephone calls feel confrontational, but this remains the most effective way to seal a deal and close a sale. During challenging economic times, like the global pandemic and its aftermath the following year, employing these old-fashioned strategies gives you a clear path forward with little or no competition. So, go on, pick up the phone, don’t send an email. Make direct contact.
2. Have something of value to offer
efficiently and easily, you define your value which helps you to sell your service. Value equals time and then money.
There’s something uniquely personal about an in-person meeting.
3. End the conversation with a concrete commitment
As the salesperson, it is easier to gauge the reaction of your lead when you talk about what you’re offering.
Don’t calculate that in monetary terms, the true commodity you are selling is time.
A subtle change in your phrasing can take a loose interest and turn it into a concrete sale without manipulating, twisting, or convincing the other person to do something they’re not particularly sold on.
Whether it is a product or service, you’re giving your buyers a solution that saves them time.
The trick lies in setting a concrete agreement, and getting a commitment from your lead.
The currency that sells is not money, but rather time. It’s hours or skills.
How do the top salespeople get a commitment?
Ask yourself a simple question: what is your value right now?
How do you save people’s time? By making it easier for people to achieve their goals fast,
4. Visit your leads in person
Instead of finishing a call with “Let’s touch base next week”, lock it in with a definite arrangement: “let’s meet on Tuesday at 9AM ‘’.
You can read the situation better and build a better connection with the other person. Talk less and listen more. People don’t want all the facts and the science, they simply want to know how you are going to make certain aspects of life easier, less time consuming, more enjoyable. Allow the other person to vent, don’t try to sell by talking, sell by listening and using as few words as possible to offer a remedy for the problems you’re hearing about.
5. Keep your meetings brief and schedule them as sparsely as possible Engage in faster interactions that are more impactful. With time being a major commodity, it is imperative to keep your meetings brief, to the point, otherwise, people get anxious. We all have busy lives, lingering on a single topic or task for too long leaves people feeling restless and nervous. The solution you’re offering is supposed to save people time and energy - don’t undo that with many meetings that are lengthy. In fact, fewer meetings make people more likely to want to commit to you because time is a valuable commodity. CT
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