What Sales Skills Do I Need to Close More Deals?
What Sales Skills Do I Need to Close More Deals?
One of the biggest myths in sales is that closing more deals comes down to personality or persuasion tricks. In reality, most deals are lost for a much simpler reason: the salesperson doesn’t know how to handle objections when they appear.
After years in sales and building a sales team of my own, I noticed something interesting. Even good salespeople would get stuck when a prospect said something like:
“That’s too expensive.”
“I need to think about it.”
Those two objections alone were responsible for killing a huge number of potential deals.
The problem wasn’t that the salesperson was bad. The problem was that they simply didn’t know what to say next.
That realization led me to develop a simple system that dramatically improved our results.
