Tips for Sales Reps
Expert Sales Rep Advice: Outsource Your Selling!
Bob Reiss, a great source of sales rep advice, is a retired successful sales rep. He now enjoys a career of “preaching the gospel” of using independent sales reps. Bob is more than just a veteran sales rep. His work is featured in a Harvard Business Review case study. He taught in MBA programs and […]
5 Keys to Sales Rep a New Line
Five keys to keep in mind while building your independent sales rep business are: Some of the best new lines do not have a sales history: We hear it every day, “not interested in pioneering a new line.” Makes perfect sense and has been a common theme for years. Yet some of the potentially really […]
Tips for Getting An Appointment to Sell Something
It is important for sales reps to have a good state of mind when attempting to get appointments with busy, important people. First, do not take rejection (non-answering of your calls and correspondence) personally. Your target may literally get 50 plus requests a day for an appointment. This is in addition to their regular extreme […]
Sell Faster to Sell More: Maximizing Your Time On the Road
In sales, time is money. When your livelihood depends completely on your sales commissions as an independent rep, it’s crucial to be constantly finding ways to improve and streamline your sales process. We’ve seen thousands of internal and external sales reps use digital tools like sales order management software to save time and work faster, […]
Using Meetup as a Sales Rep
Social networking in many ways has made sales reps more attached to our computers and phones, but there is one social network that lays its emphasis on getting people out and about in the real world. That network is Meetup. Meetup was launched in 2002 and currently boasts over 9.5 million members. Having recently completed […]
5 Ways Sales Reps can Get Busywork Done Automatically with the iPhone or iPad
5 Ways Sales Reps can Get Busywork Done Automatically with the iPhone or iPad Everyone knows salespeople have one of the hardest jobs around. But its not just how they act in front of customers and how good they are at closing a deal that makes a Salesperson great at their job. Salespeople need […]
Software Sales Tips: Making the Sale
The software landscape changes all the time. Start-ups innovate and new software models, such as Software as a Service (SaaS), emerge to change the way even the largest businesses do business. Despite this rapidly changing landscape, enterprise IT sales still operate on many of the same fundamental principles they always have. In fact, all of […]
Sales Presentations that Get Results
Every sales representative must know the art of making presentations that get results. Excellent presentations are designed to anchor all the crucial points that you want in your presentation to influence your listener. An effective presentation is always the one that grabs your listener’s attention and leads him or her to take some kind of […]
The Art of Negotiating for Sales Reps
No matter what you are selling and who your customer is, it is often a sales rep’s art of negotiating that closes the deal. If you are a sales representative, you must know the art of negotiating in order to consistently increase sales and profit. Skill Vs. Art of Negotiating Negotiation skills are thus an […]
How to Create a Great Relationship with Your Principal
Sales Rep Reporting – Unnecessary Burden or Mutually Beneficial Tool? Working as an independent sales rep has several advantages. You get to choose the product or service line to sell, your targets are not fixed by your boss, and most lines will allow flexible timings. Everything sounds great, but one important thing often ignored is […]