Author: Alice Heiman

Alice Heiman, Closing, Sales Closing, Sales Success,

Closing The Sale One Commitment At A Time

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…

sales objections

How to Handle Objections Before You Close the Sale

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…

Alice Heiman, Cold Calling, Prospecting,

Six Steps to More Effective Prospecting Campaigns

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…

prospecting

7 Step Follow-Up Strategy That Won’t Annoy Prospects

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…

prospecting sales

Increase Your Sales In Just 15 Minutes

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,…

business growth

Easy Ways to Get More Business from Satisfied Customers

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…

sales conversation

Strike Up a Conversation That Leads to Sales

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…

business growth

Fire Your Customers to Grow Your 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…

networking

Make the Most of Networking Events

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…

customer loyalty

6 Keys to Cultivating Loyal Customers

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…