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Sales Training in Action: Be a Partner, Not a Peddler

Posted on March 17, 2015 By Eric Faulkner

Think about the sales training programs and the sales coaching activities you have experienced. Did they prepare you to be an advisor or a vendor? A partner or a peddler? The answer says everything about the sales training courses you ought to be investigating. A peddler’s business can be take...

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Partner or Peddler?

Posted on March 14, 2015 By Eric Faulkner

Action Selling ® could as easily be named Action Advising. This becomes strikingly obvious when the system is used by professionals whose “product” is advice—financial advisors, consultants, accountants, and attorneys, for example. Everything about the system—each of the Nine Acts and ev...

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Sales Training in Action: Want Trust? Then You Need to Listen

Posted on March 6, 2015 By Eric Faulkner

In the world of professional services, sales success is rarely about demonstrating more expertise in your field than the next person. Instead, it’s all about the questions you ask and the listening you do. A few months after receiving a sales training program and some sales coaching based on t...

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Gain Customer Trust With One Simple Step

Posted on March 4, 2015 By Eric Faulkner

If you want to forge a long-term relationship with a client, what is the most important skill you can have? If you say something like “deep expertise in my field,” I disagree. The way to build the trust that leads to lasting relationships is to truly understand the your clients’ ne...

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Sales Training in Action: The Real Secret in the Secret Sauce

Posted on February 27, 2015 By Eric Faulkner

In my firm’s monthly eCoach newsletter, I’ve been writing about our clients’ success stories for nearly 25 years. Each story describes a sales success and highlights the aspect of the Action Selling ®-based sales training program that contributed to the win. Recently, after a c...

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It’s All About the Plan

Posted on February 19, 2015 By Eric Faulkner

In sales, a lot of deals are won (or lost) in the pre-call plan. If the sales training programs and sales coaching initiatives your company relies upon do not include extremely good advice about planning, you are wasting your money. My own sales training courses are based on the Action Selling ®...

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Sales Training in Action: Take Sales Skills to the Trade Show

Posted on February 13, 2015 By Eric Faulkner

Orange Tree Employment Screening of Minneapolis is in a highly competitive and price-driven business: It does background screening and drug testing for job candidates. All of Orange Tree’s salespeople have graduated from sales training programs and sales coaching based on the Action Selling &r...

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Why Not Take Your Sales Skills to the Trade Show?

Posted on February 11, 2015 By Eric Faulkner

You say you have discovered and implemented a great sales training course, one based on a great sales system? And the system has dramatically boosted your success rate on customer calls? That’s wonderful. But now suppose your salespeople used that selling process not only for formal client cal...

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Sales Training in Action: Speed Up Your Sell Cycle

Posted on February 7, 2015 By Eric Faulkner

Thomas Petroleum, a fuels and chemicals supplier based in Texas, got a couple of pleasant surprises after it supercharged its sales team’s selling process with sales training programs and sales coaching based on the Action Selling ® system. One surprise was that the training improved the p...

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From Sell Cycle to Success Cycle

Posted on February 3, 2015 By Eric Faulkner

How long is your sell cycle? And how accurate are your projections about business in the pipeline? Let me guess: “Too long” and “don’t make me laugh”? A key benefit of truly great sales training programs, coupled with great sales coaching, is that they can speed up the ...

Sales Training in Action: Be a Partner, Not a Peddler

Partner or Peddler?

Sales Training in Action: Want Trust? Then You Need to Listen

Gain Customer Trust With One Simple Step

Sales Training in Action: The Real Secret in the Secret Sauce

It’s All About the Plan

Sales Training in Action: Take Sales Skills to the Trade Show

Why Not Take Your Sales Skills to the Trade Show?

Sales Training in Action: Speed Up Your Sell Cycle

From Sell Cycle to Success Cycle

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