Author: Mike Brooks

sales objections

How to Coach Your Salespeople Perseverance With Sales Objections

Use the Game of Bingo to Teach Your Salespeople Perseverance With Sales Objections Sales objections can be demoralizing for salespeople. It is up to sales leaders to help their reps develop perseverance. Last week I was in Las Vegas presenting…

When Buyers Ghost You

4 Tips for Closing the Sale When Buyers Ghost You

Closing the Sale When You Get Ghosted When you get ghosted by buyers it can be crazy frustrating, especially when you feel you are right on the cusp of closing the sale. We’ve all got a pipeline full of them:…

cold calls prospecting

Prospects Keep Hanging Up On You? Try These 4 Tips

Get Inside Your Prospect's Head No one likes to have their day interrupted with a call from a salesperson. But it’s demoralizing to make dial after dial, just to have every prospect hang up when you call them. By incorporating…

success secret income

What the Top 20% Really Make and How You Can Get There

The Six Figure Secret While being a top 20% producer and income earner is obviously a nice place to be, the next question I get is, “How do I get there?”  The answer to that question might surprise you. The…

hiring top performing salespeople

3 Strategies For Hiring Top Performing Salespeople

How To Hire Top Performing Salespeople These essential sales recruiting strategies will help you solve one of the biggest challenges leaders face in making their revenue numbers— hiring top performing salespeople. The Biggest Challenge Leaders Face Ask any manager, V.P.…

commitment first call

Five Ways To Get A Commitment On The First Call

Getting A Commitment In Your First Meeting With A Prospect If a prospect isn't willing to commit to something now, what do you think your chances are of getting them to sit through a pitch and actually take action with…

sell a pencil

The Only Right Way To Sell A Pencil

How Would You Sell A Pencil? So, what is the most effective way to sell a pencil? Well, first let’s look at how most sales reps go about doing it. Telling Isn't Selling If I gave you a pencil and…

blocked by gatekeepers

7 Reasons You Keep Getting Blocked By Gatekeepers

When Telephone Prospecting Gatekeepers Happen Prospecting by telephone continues to be the most effective method of generating new business. It's also the fastest path toting get blocked by gatekeepers. Still, many salespeople complain loudly that they keep getting blocked by…

open a prospecting call

3 Ways To Open Your Next Prospecting Call

How To Open A Prospecting Call Besides being very busy, your prospects probably get a lot of sales calls every week, and many of them from your direct competition. So why would they want to talk to you? What can…

getting your emails read and returned

5 Secrets For Getting Prospects to Read and Return Your Emails

How to Make Your Emails Stand Out Want to get your emails returned? Who doesn’t… Many of us would settle for just getting our emails read! Let’s face it: prospects get hundreds of emails per week and there is a…

closing deals

What Kind Of Closer Are You?

The Two Opposing Sales Philosophies After years of pursuing sales as a serious closer, I grew into what I refer to as an "of service" sales professional. While I'm still all about closing deals, today I go about it in…

closing calls

Don’t Make This Critical Mistake On Closing Calls

How You Open Your Closing Calls Might Lose You The Deal I'm going to share with you one of the easiest and most effective ways to close more business. And it all starts with what you say when you call…