Five Ways to Send Your Sales Skyrocketing:
Part 1 - Define your best customers and target them relentlessly
Part 2 - Obtain referrals to take the chill out of cold calling
Part 3 - Unleash your secret sales force by obtaining great testimonials
Part 4 - Engage Your Sales Math
Part 4 - Handle Objections Skillfully
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By Colleen Francis
#1. Define your best customers and target them relentlessly
Recently we surveyed our loyal readers at EngageSelling.com, and asked them what they would rank as this year's top sales challenges in their respective organizations. We were really pleased with the feedback we received (and a big thank you to everyone who participated!) To share the results with everyone, we've compiled a new series of articles, called "Five great ways to send your sales skyrocketing." Each article will look at one of the top questions asked, and I'll share my thoughts on finding great solutions that help you join the ranks of the top-ranked sales performers in organizations of all sizes...and stay there!
"How do I find great customers?" This is one of the most common questions asked in our poll, and it's one that I hear often in my discussions with people during the sales training sessions I conduct. Indeed, there are steps you can take here, but first you really need to stop and ask yourself "who would I consider to be a great customer?" This is important. It's too easy to pin all the blame on your customers for not behaving the way you want them to, when really it ought to come down to matters of choice and expectations on your part. Rather than wasting your time complaining that too many of your clients are needlessly cheap or are hard to sell to, ask yourself why you keep going back to these same people again and again, somehow expecting a different result than what you'd experienced before.
Develop a profile of what you would consider an ideal customer. That's the first step. Next, focus your efforts on attracting the attention of that kind of customer. There's no rule that says everybody has a right to buy from you equally. Granted, there are times when you need new revenue no matter what, and often tends to be when you wind up taking on customers who are entirely opposite to the ones that fit your definition of ideal...simply because, well, they're easier to find.
When that temptation arises, remember this: it pays to be choosy. Closing is faster and easier when you're only trying to sell a round peg to a round hole. When your target market is well-focused, you spend far less time struggling. You're no longer devoting large chunks of your time, talking to customers who don't want to listen. Instead, leapfrog over the competition by focusing on people you enjoy selling to. You'll reduce the amount of objections you encounter, and you'll gain more repeat sales because you'll be dealing with people who want to have a long-term engagement with you.
Once you have a profile of your ideal customer, the next step is to look at who you sell to and determine how many of them meet that profile. Go through your customer database, and once you have a list of the best—it could be a dozen or it could be in the hundreds of customers—ask yourself what they all have in common. Are they privately held businesses or are they couple of publicly traded? Are they government organizations or are they consulting companies? Are they international or they domestic? Are they all run by women? Are they all small businesses or they large corporations business? Once you've found the common thread that weaves together this "best of the best" customer list, use the same criteria when reviewing those who are in your prospect database.
Let's look at an example. One of our platinum-level clients, Donald, attended our 2008 Sales Mastery Workshop in 2008 in Chicago. He introduced himself and talked about the small staffing agency that he owned. When he first started working with Engage, he explained that his goal for the next year was to achieve $1 million in sales. We took a look at his database to develop his target market, and we discovered that all of his best customers fit into one specific niche market. So here's what we advised: "Go after that market and be the number-one provider to all of the companies that have this particular need." Next, we recommended that he look at expanding that group. We said: "Okay, if all of these customers are food producers then could you also look at the beverage producers? Could you also look at dairy? How about the pet food industry?" Then we started branching off into those kinds of sub-niches based on that one target he was pursuing.
As a result, Donald achieved and exceeded his target by 90%. He wanted to reach a million in sales. He achieved $1.9 million instead. He did that by narrowing-in on who he was selling to, and then selling more to that market because the sale became effortless. He was able to displace his competition because he was a specialist in that area. I'm particularly proud of Donald's accomplishment because he achieved this record-smashing growth at a time when the market in which he was operating (the HR market) was being decimated by the recession.
Targeting isn't just effective for smaller-sized companies. It can also have a positive effect on larger-sized firm as well. At our most recent Sales Mastery Workshop (and don't forget to sign-up for our newest one at www.engageselling.com/mastery), I spoke with three participants from a Fortune-500 sized company. We talked about how they could each apply a tighter focus on targeting. The outcome was: "I'm only going to focus on chemical companies...I'm only going to focus on produce companies...and I'm going to focus on consumer package goods." Each of these sales reps had a different product and a different market, but all three were able to find ways to become specialists in one area.
So how do you attract the attention of your ideal customers? In essence, find out where they hurt, or what keeps them awake at night. For example, let's look at one of my favorite brands, Harley Davidson. This is a company that knows exactly who their target customer is. What's implicit in their unique selling proposition is this: "To hell with it all, let's ride." They don't care whether their value proposition appeals to people outside of that target range. They deliver something that matters to a well-defined demographic.
Find what works best for you. Whether it's focusing on a specific geographic area, product specialty, service offering...the possibilities are endless. They key is find customers you enjoy working with and vice versa, determine their needs, and concentrate on selling to them in a manner that fulfills those needs.
Follow us in upcoming issues for the rest of the five ways.
Colleen Francis, Sales Expert, is Founder and President of Engage Selling Solutions (www.EngageSelling.com). Armed with skills developed from years of experience, Colleen helps clients realize immediate results, achieve lasting success and permanently raise their bottom line.
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#2. Obtain referrals to take the chill out of cold calling
This second article in a series of five pieces will look at referrals and how they can help take the chill out of cold calling. Finding new customers is a major challenge for sales people everywhere and that’s reflected in the top questions asked in our recent poll, in which our readers ranked the top sales issues in their respective organizations. That challenge is part of a growing trend—one we’ve been tracking at Engage for the last several years. Companies are consolidating their purchases to known buyers. They’re doing this to reduce the risks they take when dealing with suppliers.
Here are two reasons why that’s happening. First, those who are already known to a buyer carry a brand of familiarity and that—to their mind, at least—means less risk. True, there’s no direct correlation between being unfamiliar and creating greater risk for a client. New suppliers out there may offer a much better product or service. However, this isn’t a battle based on facts. It’s a matter of what customers feel is true rather than what they know to be true. Even if it’s based on a faulty assumptions, perceptions can be a very real barrier to selling to new customers.
The second reason why buyers have become risk averse is that many are working in a really tough environment. Many companies have been laying-off staff over the last two years, meaning there are fewer people involved in the buying process. These people are receiving an increasing number of cold calls from sales people who, in turn, are under relentless pressure to sell more. Understandably, this is not fun for buyers.
That’s why many have developed an aversion for taking cold calls. Instead, they triage those calls and the entire buying process by saying to themselves “I’m just going to stick with suppliers I know and trust.”
Bridge the risk gap with referrals
Referrals can help you bridge that risk gap with a potential new customer, helping to transform you from an unknown quantity to one that’s known and trusted. Let’s look at how you can obtain referrals so you can start using them right away in your sales organization.
The first thing you need to do is look at your existing list of customers. Work from the list you created for targeting and reach out to your best clients. Next, make a list of your top-25 or even top-50 prospects. Now ask yourself if there are any links between your best clients and your best prospects. Where there is a link, call your existing client and ask for one of two kinds of referrals.
Inside and outside referrals
The first kind is an inside referral, which involves getting connected to someone inside the company you are currently working with. Let’s say you just sold a product to the VP of Sales for the North American division of a company, and you’d like to do the same with their European division. The request for an inside referral could sound like this: “Dan, I would love to meet your VP of Sales for your European office, can you help me with an introduction?” Notice that I’ve included the person’s name in the request. It helps personalize your message, so you get the results you’re looking for. Also, be specific with your questions. For example: “Janet, I’m going to be giving Cole McCarthy a call next week to talk about the work that we can do to help his sales team...can I tell him about the success we’ve had working together here in North America?” When you ask direct questions, it is much easier for someone who knows you, likes you and trusts you to say yes to your request.
Outside referrals involve somebody in a different company than you’re currently working with. Let’s say your targeted prospect works for Acme Widgets—a company that currently supplies your customer in a different field than yours. Your request could sound like this: “Stephen, I’m looking to meet the VP of Sales at Acme Widgets…do you know her?” If your client says yes, then you follow-up with: “Would you be able to help me with an introduction?” The keyword is “help.” It’s an incredibly powerful word and using it in your request will almost always get you a satisfactory reply.
Treat referrals as something you obtain from clients as a rule—not as an exception. They are vital to your long-term success in sales. Not only do they help generate new customers, but they also help you broaden your network. However, let me emphasize again...it’s really important that you be as specific as possible when asking for that referral. One of the biggest mistakes people make when asking for referrals is they are too vague or too general in their request. It’s simply not enough to ask: “Who else do you know in your organization?” ...or to say in passing: “If you know anyone else who needs my services, don’t hesitate to pass my name around.” It’s too easy for the person to whom you’re speaking with to say: “Gosh, no one comes to mind right now, but let me go back to my office and think about it and then I’ll be sure to pass your name along.” You can guess what happens next. That client goes back to the office, handles 25 calls and a mountain of tasks in their inbox, and before the day is over, they’ve forgotten about your request.
I suspect over the next year, we will see an even greater disparity between making cold calls with and without referrals. The perceived risks in the mind of buyers aren’t going to go away, and as a result, people are going to be more prone to sticking with who they know. Referrals keep you in the “know and trust” category in the minds of buyers.
Engage is here to help!
To help send your sales skyward this year, learn everything you can about referrals and how to improve your skills at obtaining them. There are great resources available to help you. Here at Engage, we cover the fine art of obtaining referrals in two ways. First, it’s covered in Chapter 9 of our book, Honesty Sells. It’s well worth your time to read as it covers how you can create a referral based system for your company.
Your second resource is our three-day Sales Mastery Workshop. Based on the tremendous response we’ve seen from hosting it twice in Chicago, Illinois, we’re hosting a new one in Ottawa, Ontario, April 28-30, 2010. If you are a business owner, a sales leader or an individual sales rep who owns a quota and are keen to make things happen this year, then this is a great event for you.
You’ll need to act quickly! It’s a limited-crowd event. We lock the doors when we have 50 registered participants, and as of this morning, we have only four seats left, so be sure to register today.
Colleen Francis, Sales Expert, is Founder and President of Engage Selling Solutions (www.EngageSelling.com). Armed with skills developed from years of experience, Colleen helps clients realize immediate results, achieve lasting success and permanently raise their bottom line.
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#3. Unleash your secret sales force by obtaining great testimonials
It's a challenge that even the most accomplished sales professionals have to tackle regularly: how to attract more of the targeted customers who are best suited to help your business thrive. After all, it's not enough to know who it is that you want to reach, or even to fine-tune your business habits to emulate the top sellers in organizations of all sizes. You also need to find ways to attract more of those ideal customers to fill your prospecting funnel. Indeed, there's plenty you can do on your own to fine-tune your sales approach, but the work doesn't stop there.
Your customers can also play a huge role in sending your sales skyward, but only if you let them help you do that.
Testimonials aren't about promises. They're about proof.
This is where testimonials enter in play—simple, heartfelt, authentic statements of fact from people describing how they have benefitted from doing business with you. Testimonials achieve what no amount of advertising or marketing can accomplish singlehandedly—they prove to others what you know to be true about your work and the products/services you sell.
Don't get me wrong. Other methods of reaching out to potential customers are important in any sales arsenal, but testimonials need to be part of that push. To be blunt, prospects are going to believe your clients far more than they're ever going to believe your marketing messages. Educated consumers are prone to look beyond promises that companies make about being the best in their field. They're likely to think: "of course you'll say you're number one...you're in sales and you're paid to say that."
However, when you back those pledges with solid, third-party proof, a different thinking pattern starts to emerge, especially when the testimonials come from people with whom prospects can identify with in terms of shared circumstance or profession. They see your claims about excellence and professionalism, and then they see those claims validated in a manner that isn't couched in self promotion or sales rhetoric.
Your secret sales force, ready to serve.
The power of word-of-mouth from all of your customers combined creates what I like to refer to as your secret sales force. More than just being satisfied with doing business with you, those who provide you with testimonials are people who want to see you succeed. By collecting and sharing with others all the great things your customers have to say about their experiences dealing with you and your organization, you create a magnet that helps attract more of those ideal, targeted customers you want to work with. The pull of that magnet becomes more and more powerful with every testimonial that you obtain and share.
Another of the many great benefits of testimonials is that that encourage people in your list of targeted prospects to come to you already interested in you, your product or your services. That translates into fewer sales objections, meaning that you'll spend less time struggling to land that prospect or negotiating on price, and more time listening to the needs of your new customer (plus responding to those needs).
Despite these compelling benefits, this highly potent sales force remains underused by businesses today. In fact, Bane & Company did a survey in 2007 and found that 87% of satisfied customers want to help sell others on the businesses worked with, and yet only 7% of those businesses took the time to ask for that help. Astonishing, isn't it?
Don't become another statistic! Get testimonials working for you and unleash this massive group of people who are hungry to help you succeed and who resonate well with your clients.
The unsalesy way of selling.
Here at Engage, we place a lot of emphasis on collecting and using testimonials, particularly for those who are individual consultants, speakers, trainers or small-business owners. These are people whose livelihood depends on having a steady stream of new customers, but generally don't have the budget to go out and hire a professional sales force.
Many people in this position attend my sales training seminars and will say to me: "Colleen, I know it's part of my job, but I just really don't enjoy selling." Usually what they're really getting at is that they don't like to appear, for want of a better word, salesy, which to their way of thinking is equivalent to being inauthentic in the eyes of their prospects and customers. Testimonials can really help those who struggle with this, because it means you can let the words of your most satisfied customers do almost all of the talking. That's why I refer to this as the non-salesy way to sell. When you give prospects testimonials to consider, what you're really saying is: "hey don't just take my word for it, have a look at what others have to say about my products/services."
Testimonials also serve as a way of recommending your services to others—and that's absolutely vital. Consider the evidence: recommendations from peers was recently cited as the number-one decision making criteria according to Nielsen Research. Yahoo tells us that 87% of people believe the reviews that they see on websites. On the other hand, Saga Research suggests that as few as 10% of people believe what they read in conventional business-to-consumer marketing products. So it's in your interest to find ways to go beyond the promises and to provide proof to support what you are saying about yourself and your work. When you're successful at this, you build a bridge of trust with your customers—one that's made to last for the long term.
Engage is here to help!
Help send your sales skyward this year. Find out more today about TestimonialDirector, by Engage Selling Solutions. This online resource offers you the tools to collect, manage, publish and target your testimonials in a manner that can increase revenue, help you reclaim your free time and elevate your intelligence on customer trends and responses. Sign up today!
Colleen Francis, Sales Expert, is Founder and President of Engage Selling Solutions (www.EngageSelling.com). Armed with skills developed from years of experience, Colleen helps clients realize immediate results, achieve lasting success and permanently raise their bottom line.
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#4. Engage Your Sales Math
So far in this five-article series, I’ve focused on what you can do at the front-end of your sales cycle to help generate the great results that you’re looking for in your organization. This entails fine-tuning your prospecting and targeting skills and finding multiple ways to get the word out on the street about your work as a sales professional. Getting that component right is crucial. When you master all aspects of the front-end of the sales cycle, it puts you on a direct path to finding great customers and generating more referrals and testimonials. It also makes selling a lot more fun, because you benefit from selling more to the people you enjoy working with the most. And who doesn’t want that kind of dynamic sales growth, right?
Remember that “front-end” describes activities that you need to do really well and to do so consistently, otherwise everything else that follows will likely lead to disappointment. As I remind my clients and readers regularly, it doesn’t matter how good a closer you are. It doesn’t matter if you are the best negotiator in the world. If you don’t have a steady stream of prospects to sell to, you will fail.
Now that we’ve established that at the root of sales success in any market is prospecting—knowing who to target and how to turn these people into loyal customers—we can turn to examine important activities that help support all your efforts on the front-end. This entails getting a better lock-in on what your goals need to be as a sales professional and as a sales organization.
This is what I call engaging your sales math. Don’t get scared! I’m not going to ask you to do advanced algebra in your head. I am going to challenge you to find ways to work harder and smarter, and to make that happen now...not later.
Working harder and smarter means you need to develop a clear understanding of two numbers.
1. Knowing your closing ratio
First, you need to define what your closing ratio needs to be in your organization.
Net new contacts to close—not just the closing ratio from proposal stage to close. So what should that closing ratio be? It depends on your business. For existing businesses on average, one in every two completed sales—approximately 50%—should come from new leads and the balance from existing customers. Based on that, closing ratios can be as low as .008 (125:1), and as high as 0.5 (1:2). It depends on whether you're cold calling from the yellow page business directory (which has the lowest closing ratios), or growing your business based on referrals (which has the highest closing ratios). Be honest with yourself and make sure you consider your closing ratio from net new contacts to close - not just the closing ratio from proposal stage to close.
However, let’s be clear. This does not mean you should work longer hours to meet that ratio. Rather, you need to look at whether there are ways that you can make better use of the hours in your existing work day. Don’t succumb to distractions. Or as Michael Gerber, author of E-Myth Mastery: The Seven Essential Disciplines for Building a World Class Company, and The Most Successful Small Business in The World (among other titles) advises, don’t allow yourself to be stricken by entrepreneurial seizures every day, day after day.
Instead, set yourself some realistic, measurable goals that help you meet your closing ratio objectives. Make a pledge to yourself: “for two hours a day at this specified time of day, I’m going to do nothing but make sales calls.” Close your office door. Make sure that other scheduled meetings and appointments are outside of that golden zone. Remember that when you’re in sales, you can only do your job when you’re able to be in contact with prospects and customers when they are available. So make best use of your time during typical business hours.
2. Knowing your sales funnel
Calculate just how large of a prospecting funnel you’ll need to reach the sales goals that matter to you and to your organization—-that’s the second number you need to engage your sales math. Make note of this valuable rule-of-thumb: your sales funnel of prospects should be at least three times the size of the amount of business you want to close. Therefore, if you reach a $200,000 sales quota next year, you need to generate and manage a sales funnel of at least $600,000 in potential sales during that same period.
If you define that sales funnel using a measurable, realistic number, then you will have a much better sense of your progress in meeting your sales quotas at any given time. Fall short and you’ll know that your chances of hitting your target are slim. Exceed your necessary sales funnel target and odds are very good that you’ll be reaping the benefits of the great sales results you’re looking for (and that you really are capable of achieving). It’s that simple. It just takes hard work as persistence.
Here at Engage, one of the first things Chris and I did when we moved to our winter office in sunny Miami was to buy a corkboard and a whiteboard, so that I could post our mission-critical numbers right where we could see them. We established our target revenue for Engage and then determined the size of our sales funnel. It’s a simple, effective way to help keep you focused on what matters in your business, and so I encourage you to do the same. I track it in our CRM, and on paper in my office so I always have the numbers close at hand.
True, there are a lot of sales experts out there who will try to convince you that sales aren’t about numbers. Sure, being a successful sales professional is about more than just crunching facts and figures, but you do need to know how the numbers work to be a success. Otherwise, how can you possibly measure your progress along the way?
A couple of favorite quotes come to mind here. The first is from one of my favorite speakers, Zig Ziglar, who said: “Most people aim at nothing and hit it with surprising accuracy.” Another is from Laurence J. Peter: “If you don’t know what you’re aiming for, you’ll end up somewhere else.”
The fact is that most people fall short when it comes to doing the sales math. They just focus on their revenue quota. Successful sales pros take the time to break it down to say “if I need 100 transactions then I need 300 qualified leads.” Go the extra mile. Do the math and figure out exactly what it is that you need to do to hit the sales targets that will make this year your best on record.
Colleen Francis, Sales Expert, is Founder and President of Engage Selling Solutions (www.EngageSelling.com). Armed with skills developed from years of experience, Colleen helps clients realize immediate results, achieve lasting success and permanently raise their bottom line.
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#5. Handle Objections Skillfully
In this five-part series, I've shared with you a range of activities that you can engage today to help turbo-charge sales in your business—-no matter whether you are a sales professional working solo or managing a sales team. I've identified for you what you need to do at the front-end of your sales cycle—defining your best customers, obtaining referrals and testimonials and making better use of all of these in how you sell to your prospects. I've also talked about how to engage your sales math and why this is an important step to take if you're determined to join the ranks of the top-10 percent of sales performers in your organization.
There is one more point that I want to cover in this series, and that's the importance of doing nothing.
You read that right. Nothing.
Hear me out, because this is really important. To explain what I mean, let's start by acknowledging a key fact about sales. Objections are among the biggest challenges that salespeople encounter when working hard to turn prospects into customers. However, they are not insurmountable! Objections are quite a natural part of sales process.
It's understandable, really, that when making a decision to buy, people will often take a step back and ask themselves "am I doing the right thing...am I comfortable with what's being offered?" Let's face it, we all ask questions like those when we're on the other side of the table as a buyer (e.g., think about the kinds of objections you may have had the last time you bought a home or a car). So really there is no harm in acknowledging this as entirely acceptable behavior among your prospects and customers. That is why I take issue with some sales experts out there who try to tell you that you can sell in a way that creates no objections. Please. If you respect those with whom you do business (and I'm sure that you do), then you'll respect the fact that smart people do their homework and don't rush needlessly into committing to buy—-particularly when you're selling products or services priced in units of $10,000 or more.
What really matters is how you handle objections to a sale. When you're skillful in this regard, you can have a significant influence on your ability to sell to more customers in less time. When you encounter this, my advice is to not even define these matters as objections. Instead, think of them as questions. By reshaping your assumptions, you can start focusing on the key questions that preoccupy your prospects. Next, you can develop answers that ease concerns and resolve doubts. In other words, you'll start spending more time seeing sales as dialogue—-a real conversation—rather than a monologue.
This is where the importance of doing nothing comes into play.
Skilled reporters—-people who earn a living asking probing questions of others—will tell you that silence can be one of the most powerful tools you can use in a fact-finding conversation. Authors Sally Adams and Wynford Hicks talk about this in their book Interviewing for Journalists: "It's impossible to over-emphasize the importance of silence...Count at least four seconds silently to yourself. You'll be amazed at how often the interviewee carries on speaking, amplifying their last comment...Don't over-do it, though, and use really long silences. They can be counter-productive, leading to short answers."
So when you encounter objections, be quiet. Don't jump in right away with questions, because if you interrupt the person who is explaining their objection or you try to pounce with answers, you'll look defensive. The prospect may interpret that as you trying to justify or defend a position, and that can get their hackles up.
If your prospect says to you "Your price is too high," or "I'm not the right decision-maker," or "We need more time," don't panic. The sale isn't drifting away. Instead, give that prospect enough room to talk and give yourself an opportunity to listen carefully to what they are saying. In the vast majority of cases, the prospect will feel compelled to jump in and give you more information. In many cases, they'll even answer their own objection within that little vacuum of silence!
One last bit of advice: be sure to prepare in advance with answers to the most common objections. Write down your six most common objections and develop six answers that are really solid, making a convincing case for why a prospect should buy from you. Field test those answers and make revisions where necessary.
There's no excuse for you to not know what these objections are and there's no excuse for you to be unprepared when you hear an objection that you've heard many times before. For instance, if you know that you services or products are among the most expensive in the marketplace, raise that with your prospect right away. For example, you can say: "It's important for you to know that we're not going to be the cheapest product/service out there...how do you feel about that?"
To sum up: handle objections skillfully by learning when to say nothing. Also, zero-in on the most common objections in your business and have answers that communicate clearly in benefits that matter to person you're speaking with. Your confidence in successfully closing the sale will grow, your prospect will be more at ease in about making the decision to buy, and you'll be many steps closer to hitting bullseye on your sales target in your business.
Colleen Francis, Sales Expert, is Founder and President of Engage Selling Solutions (www.EngageSelling.com). Armed with skills developed from years of experience, Colleen helps clients realize immediate results, achieve lasting success and permanently raise their bottom line.
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