Closing the Sale Should Not Be Hard Closing the sale is easy if you follow your sales process and gain commitments along the way. Sales managers are always asking me for help teaching their salespeople closing techniques. Essentially, they are…
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Prospects Have Objections, You Need to Know How to Handle Them Learning to handle objections is important so that you don’t spend time with prospects who are not going to buy and you ensure that those who are going to…
Prospecting is More Than a Cold Call There are six steps to more effective prospecting campaigns will help you reduce pure cold calling and engage highly qualified prospects. “Why won’t salespeople prospect? All they ever do is complain that they…
Here are seven steps I recommend to design an effective (and not annoying) follow-up strategy. Most salespeople are pretty good at selling. But as any salesperson knows, the odds of someone picking up a phone, answering your email just as…
What if you could increase your sales by 20% or more by doing one simple thing that requires about 15 minutes prior to making a sales call? Would you do it? Would you be willing to spend 15 minutes planning,…
Why go out and generate leads the hard way? Sometimes you have to, but start with the easiest ways first. Generate leads within your existing customer base. What’s the easiest business you will ever get? Why is it that most…
How do you walk up to a perfect stranger and strike up a conversation that could lead to sales? The first thing is: don’t think about sales. I’d like to get to know you but... I am always telling business…
We all have troublesome customers who take up much more of our time and energy than our other customers. However, we continue to spend an inordinate amount of time on their demands and continue to get aggravated at them (and…
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Everyone can learn to network. Salespeople and entrepreneurs need to become expert at it. Do you network effectively in a crowd? Do the time and money you spend attending association meetings and events turn into revenue? Networking is one of…
Loyal customers will take your company to the next level because of their long-term patronage, and willingness to tell everyone about you. I can't imagine any business professionals saying are thinking that satisfied customers are not a priority. We all…
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Alice developed her expertise in sales while at Miller Heiman, Inc before striking out on her own, establishing Alice Heiman, LLC in 1997. In her years at Miller Heiman, she sold to and trained some of the company's largest and most complex accounts, including Coca Cola, Dow Chemical, Merck, and Hewlett Packard. She’s a nationally recognized expert with a proven track record of leading and inspiring corporate sales teams and as well as developing sales in start-ups.
Alice is a nationally recognized sales expert. She’s made numerous guest appearances on television and radio broadcasts, in addition to being featured in print publications, including Entrepreneur’s Startups and Selling Power magazines. Over the course of her two decades of teaching others the fine art of selling, she’s earned a host of awards. Saleswoman of the Year, Marketer of the Year, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Small Business Blue Ribbon Award are a few of the acknowledgments adorning her office walls.
Perhaps Alice’s greatest accomplishment, however, resides in the profound difference her approach has upon her clients’ business. Alice pairs an innate understanding of selling with the equally important talent for communicating easily with a variety of personalities and backgrounds. Through her dynamic articulation and training programs, business owners and sales teams quantifiably improve their business networking, lead generation, and sales skills. Sales rep or business owner, her sales training will have you selling comfortably and successfully within an abbreviated learning curve.
Alice developed her sales expertise while at Miller Heiman, Inc. before striking out on her own and establishing Alice Heiman, LLC, in 1997. In her years at Miller Heiman, she sold to and trained some of the company’s largest and most complex accounts, including Coca Cola, Dow Chemical, Merck and Hewlett Packard.
These days she’s tailored her international expertise so that it benefits an array of small business/entrepreneurial clients.
A consummate networker, she is the author of the eBook Connecting Your Way to New Business and co-author of Network to Increase Your Net Worth. She is also the creator of The BizTalk Blender®, innovative peer-to-peer networking events that connect business people so they can easily build professional business relationships, develop referral sources, and form collaborative partnerships.