Ryan Dohrn
Professional Sales Tips you'll learn today on The Sales Podcast...
- Author of "Selling Forward: Pandemic Tested Sales Strategies for Success"
- 89% of buyers would rather go to the dentist than talk to a salesperson.
- Relationship selling is not dead, it has just changed.
- If you keep selling the way you sold before the pandemic, your sales may suffer in dramatic ways.
- Over 70% of buyers are making decisions emotionally right now. This means that fact and stat-based salespeople are not connecting correctly with their clients.
- Millennials don't seek a relationship to buy from you.
- They demand transparency.
- How much is it? Has anyone else tried it? Oh yeah...how much is it?
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- You can increase your overall productivity in sales by 150% by setting time limits and time blocking your day.
- Over 60% of buyers will make 75% of their buying decision before they request to talk to a salesperson.
- During times of uncertainty, buyers are looking for recommendations, not a 30-minute customer needs assessment.
- Customer needs assessments are more about what a client WANTS than what they NEED.
- Personality profiling of your prospects could increase your closing rate by 40%.
- Ghosting after a productive sales call with a client can be significantly reduced by reformatting your sales calls and slide decks.
- Emotional, logical, or ego-driven buyers?
- What makes you so different than other sales coaches?
- What is so different now than pre-pandemic in the sales business?
- You mention personality profiling of prospective clients, what does that mean?
- Is relationship-based selling dead?
- I hear you are not a fan of customer needs assessments.
- "The 10 Tall Questions."
- The CNA seems to be a vital part of every sales plan.
- Why do you not like the CNA?
- Guide a prospect to what they need, not just what they want.
- Lots of salespeople talk about being ghosted after a productive sales call. Why is this happening and how can it be avoided?
- How does Maslow’s hierarchy of needs apply to sales and hosting meetings with prospective clients?
- How to increase sales productivity by 150%.
- Make sales a fine dining experience rather than a trip to a buffet.
- For salespeople that are struggling out there, what is your best advice?
Social proof reduces risk."
- Kellogg's grew after the Depression when they ramped up their marketing.
- Trying times make people more of what they are.
- People don't take meetings out of curiosity anymore.
- "How can I be of assistance to you today?"
- Position yourself as a helper.
- Mission readiness is key.
- Look for patterns that produce.
- Sales are more complex now.
- From Iowa pig farming to Emmy-Award Winning motivational speaker.
- "The Prostitute Principal"
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