Inside Sales Tips Blog

Sales Objection: “Call Me After the New Year”

There are two times of the year when prospects categorically write you off; during the winter holidays and summer. Seasoned executives shrewdly use the excuse, “Call me back after the New Year” as an easy way to get you off the phone, delay having to meet with anyone, and postpone any additional decision making.

Why, then, does this objection work so well in getting salespeople to back off?

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Is your Sales Team an Asset Appreciating in Value?

Today's blog post is by one of our partners, Julie Thomas, CEO of ValueSelling Associates, LLC. Please visit Julie's blog.

High performing sales professionals, in all industries, tend to have some common traits. In my experience, those traits include competitiveness, resilience, tenacity, and empathy. But there is another common factor among world-class sales professionals. That characteristic is the ability to assimilate information to learn and continuously improve.

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Loading the Sales Pipeline in a Down Economy

In a down economy, many salespeople are losing sleep and seeing their hair turn gray at the prospect of not being able to hit their quotas as easily as they used to.

It would be great if there was a “silver bullet” solution that would enable salespeople to maintain their traditional closing rates. However, this era of new-spending freezes and long-term clients failing to renew means that even the most seasoned salespeople are going to see their conversion rate fall.

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