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PROFESSIONAL SALES PROSPECTING
a one-day workshop
This workshop is designed for those who make an initial contact with the customer over the phone.  They can set the right or wrong tone for the customer and are the public relations arm of your organization.  The impressions made and the service offered can enhance or destroy the image of your organization in a few minutes.  For those already familiar with selling skills, application of this experience is made to the prospecting process.

WORKSHOP CONTENT

Unit 1:  What's your attitude 

The changing role in sales
Maintaining a current customer
Selling additional products to existing customers and finding new customers?
What is the first impression you make and how to analyze your own image?  
Introduce yourself and your company

Unit 2:  Prospecting

Who are these prospects and where do you find them?  
Focus on the prospect:  readiness, acceptance or indifference

Unit 3:  Apply communication skills for prospecting

Questioning 
Listening 
Acknowledging and paraphrasing
What makes for a winning script?   
Avoid sounding "canned"
Control the conversation when customer questions take you off track

Unit 4:  Handling resistance, negative behavior and objections 

Dealing with rejection in a positive manner
How to close on a positive tone when you don't get the appointment
Understand resistance
The angry prospect
Dealing with emotions assertively
Avoid manipulations
Win/win resolution
Reach agreements

Unit 5:  Follow-up and attend to details

EXPECTED OUTCOMES

At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:  

1.  Identify how his/her self-image influences successful prospecting.
2. Apply current sales and communication skills to improve prospecting.
3. Given a case study, role play three techniques to handle customer behaviors.
4. Apply a four-step selling model to prospecting.
5.  Practice methods of assertively dealing with difficult customers and turning the conversation into a win/win situation.

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