All 'The Sales Conversation' Posts
I don’t watch a lot of TV (I haven’t owned one for 13 years) but every now and again I get completely captivated by something on catch-up TV. And that’s what’s happened last week when I discovered The Call Centre on BBC (If like me you missed it first time around, it’s going to be re-run from this Sunday and…
READ POSTAn interesting thing happened this weekend – I found myself breaking one of my own cardinal rules of non-pushy sales. I spent the weekend at Nick James’ “Ultimate Product Launch” seminar learning strategies to help me launch my new workshop “Selling from the Heart from Speaking” later this year. Now, the value of attending seminars is not just about what…
READ POSTMy first big live event “Selling from the Heart Live” at the weekend went fabulously. We had 70 lovely heart-centred women and men all learning how to sell and attract clients in a way that feels authentic and comfortable for everyone involved – No red arrows and shouty “buy-now” buttons on your website, or talking at people until they are…
READ POSTOne of the most important gifts you can give your client during a sales conversation is to let them feel heard. But are you letting your client – and your business – down in your eagerness to help and serve? As you know, I recommend that you develop connection with your client and get to understand what has drawn them…
READ POSTI recently sent out my first ever email broadcast to my community of heart-centred business owners – people who had attended my workshop or online programme, or who had signed up to my free video e-course “The 7 Steps to Yes”. Because it had been such a busy year for me putting the foundations under my new business, I was…
READ POSTOne important piece of advice I like to give to anyone wanting to improve their sales conversations – and so increase the number of clients saying “Yes Please!” to working with you – is this: Don’t Try to Sell. “What?” I can almost hear you asking me with that puzzled tone “I’m reading your blog because I want to learn…
READ POSTYou don’t have to be a coach or healer for a sales conversation to be a healing experience for your client. It is just the same if you are a web designer or an accountant, or providing any other service. If you are working from the heart and are really committed to making a difference to your clients then, rather than…
READ POSTWhen and where do you conduct your conversations with your potential clients? Have you ever been guilty of answering the phone to a client while in the supermarket checkout queue? What about returning a client’s call 10 minutes before you’re due to head out for the school run and end up having to carry on the conversation as you drive? If…
READ POSTIf you are like many heart-centred business owners you know that your sales conversations could be better – you’re just a little unsure how to improve them. Having a structure to your conversations is that thing that makes the difference between having a lovely, friendly, chatty conversation where you feel it’s gone well, they seem to like you – but…
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