| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | 10 sales days left this month, 31 left this quarter | Wednesday, November 16 | | |  | | | “ If you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk.
If you can't walk, crawl. But by all means,
keep moving. ”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968)
American civil rights leader
Nobel Peace Prize winner
How to avoid helplessness and embrace objections (see below)
Also: Al Pacino's clawing for inches halftime talk
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Register Now | | | | | Sales thoughts... | | | | | Sometimes, if we don't have success after repeated attempts to do something, we can lose confidence and eventually give up trying. It's called "learned helplessness" (we learn to be helpless).
Sales check: Any areas where you and your team have stopped trying (or try, but with little commitment) because prior repeated failures and/ or a perceived inability to succeed has trained you not to try? In prospecting and customer contact efforts? In motivating and improving team attitudes and cooperation? With customer care improvement initiatives?
If so, what can you start doing today to minimize any "learned helplessness" that may have set in? (Maybe have a Cross The Line discussion.)
To see (6-minute video) an interesting take on the concept from a class at Penn State Erie and to learn a little more about the person behind it... click here.
Another thought on embracing the objections of your prospects and customers...
Right now and over the next several weeks, position in your mind the regular objections you hear as not only an inevitable step to bringing in more business, but also a positive step. Objections confirm a level of need or desire for your product or service and help you better determine the next steps you should take in a sales process. For the prospect, it's your responses to the objections that help validate or support their buying decision.
This is the reason the responses to your top objections (those you and your team hear most often) must be planned and prepared with a professional's level of attention.
The keys... Appreciate. Validate. Be direct.
Learn more and get 3 starter ideas for objection responses.
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When you need a well-earned break, enjoy Al Pacino's half-time speech (4.5 minutes) in the 1999 film "Any Given Sunday." Focus and turn up your speakers a bit to get the full feel with the background music.
It's all about the 212 difference. (What's 212?)
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