Sales Pro’s, todays episode of the Smart Sales Pro is an interview with Chief Operating Officer of Say No More Promotions August Wittenberg.

August is going to tell us about his sales journey and how to use promotional products as an advertising tool as well as give us some life lessons that have come from being a sales pro.

Enjoy the show!

Sales Pro's, todays episode of the Smart Sales Pro is an interview with Sales Training Manager Keith Gardner.

Sales Pro's, 

Neil Rackham an author, consultant and academic who’s writing focuses on "consultative selling,” pioneered the method as well as wrote the book titled SPIN Selling back in 1988.

SPIN Selling proposes there are four types of questions. SPIN stands for :

• Situation
• Problem
• Implication
• Need-payoff

Situation Questions deal with the facts about the buyers existing situation.

Problem Questions ask about the buyer's pain and focus the buyer on this pain while clarifying the problem, before asking implication questions. . These give Implied Needs.

Implication Questions discuss the effects of the problem, before talking about solutions, and develop the seriousness of the problem to increase the buyer's motivation to change.

Need-Payoff Questions get the buyer to tell you about their Explicit Needs and the benefits your solutions offers, rather than forcing you to explain the benefits to the buyer.

Check out the podcast episode to learn more.......

For questions or to request a sales topic I can be reached at [email protected] as well as on twitter and Facebook at smartsalespro.

This week on the Smart Sales Pro Podcast I interview Sales

This week on the Smart Sales Pro Podcast I interview the Sales Evangelist Donald Kelly.  We discuss his sales journey, his perspective on the characteristics of a successful Sales Pro, the greatest lessons he has learned from sales and how to double your referrals the Sales Evangelist way!

Donald Kelly can be heard on The Sales Evangelist Podcast and reached at TheSalesEvangelist.com\smartsalespro .

In this weeks episode I discuss my reflections on a talk by one of my favorite Sales Pro's and arguably one of the Greatest of All Time in Sales, Personal and Professional Development.  I will share thoughts on topics and ideas such as mental fitness, being your own boss, passivity and hard work.

This weeks episode will discuss the three degrees of sales people; Bottom Feeders, Minimum Wagers and Elite Sales Pro's as well as take a look at their distinct characteristics, activity, behavior and results.  Where do you stand?

Todays episode will go over several simple yet powerful best practices that I used myself as an inside sales agent that will will help you get one step closer to Elite Sales Pro Status.