MARKETING & SALES

Art of Selling – How To Sell The SMART Way!

 

Are you satisfied with your sales force's productivity and profitability?

 

Have your sales people been trained to be productive and profitable?

 

Giving your sales people the skills they need for success will lead to success for your organisation (and ultimately for you, too).

 

Welcome to the new paradigm of selling. This 3-day programme is designed to upgrade the selling and communication skills of sales people involved in face-to-face selling situation. It emphasises on the marketing approach to selling (or funnel approach) which focuses on the customers’ buying cycle (instead of the selling cycle) resulting in satisfied long term customers and clients. Given today’s increased competition, complex environment and sophisticated buyers, organisations need to develop the culture of being close to their customers and build trust-relationship with them. Sales personnel will look and BE more professional and smarter.

 

This programme also covers using successful attitudes, selling systematically, pinpointing prospects, presenting products and services, closing sales, resolving objections, holding onto existing customers, and honoring sales commitments.

 

Objectives

 

Upon completion of this programme, you will be able to:

·         Improve sales performance

·         Sharpen the professionalism of sales people

·         Hone existing skills and develop new skills

·         Build long-term and profitable relationship with the customer

·         Develop trust and understanding with the customer

·         Differentiate a salesperson from his or her competition

·         Cope with today’s tougher and changing marketplace and develop yourself as a professional

·         Simply, enjoy selling

 

Who Should Attend

 

·          This programme is ideal for a wide variety of sales forces and sales people as it covers the principles that are common to all:

o         consumer sales

o         business-to-business sales

o         retail sales

o         wholesale sales

o         new sales people

o         experienced sales people

o         any product

o         any service

o         all sales forces and sales people seeking success

·          Executives, Managers, Entrepreneurs and CEOs who sell ideas to people are encouraged to attend

 

Learning Outcome

 

At the end of this programme, you will have gained the following knowledge and learning:

  • Proven and effective methods of getting results in a face-to-face selling situation, the SMART way.
  • Understand the power of using customers’ buying cycle to create satisfied long term customers and clients
  • Develop a culture of being close to your customers and build trust-relationship with them.

 


Programme Outline

 

Day 1

·          Roles of Sales People

·          Attitudes of Successful Sales People

·          Creativity in Selling

·          How Selling complements the Marketing Process

·          Effective Prospecting and Time-Management

·          Sales Forecasting and Prioritisation

·          Prospecting, Qualifying and Making Appointments

·          Traditional Selling and Relationship Selling

·          Selling Cycle and Buying Cycle

·          WWWWH of Selling

·          Driving Principles of Smart Selling

·          Opening Sales Calls

·          Concluding Sales Calls and Moving Forward

 

Day 2

·          Connecting and Rapport

·          Probing and Questioning Skills

·          Exercises on Questioning and Listening

·          Exploring and Understanding Needs

·          Uncovering Needs and Consequences

·          Identify Gaps and Benefits

·          Exercises of Bridging Gaps

·          Evaluate Alternatives and Options

·          Modelling Top Sales People

 

 

 

Day 3

·          Preparing Value Proposition

·          How to effectively present the proposal

·          Using Language of Influence

·          Handling Objections

·          Closing The Sale

·          Negotiating Skills

·          Sales Management Creed

·          Trust, Self-esteem, Courage, Risk-taking, Responsibility, Respect

·          After-sales Service and Customer Service

 

Training Facilitator

 

Simon Soh, MMIM, MIM-CPT

Dip. In Production Engineering (Dist.) (Singapore Polytechnic, S’pore), Dip. In Management Programme (MIM),

Grad. Dip. In Marketing (CIM, UK),

MBA (Cranfield School of Management, UK)

 

 

Administrative Details

 

Fees:

MIM Member: RM1,500

Non-Member: RM1,800

Duration:

3 days

 

Time:

9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

 

Venue:

MIM Management House

Kuala Lumpur

 

Dates:

·          23-25 February 2009

·          19-21 May 2009

·          3-5 August 2009

·          18-20 November 2009

 

PSMB Scheme:

  • SBL

 

SMIDEC SME Skills Upgrading Programme:

  • 80% training grant (for eligible SMEs)

(Early bird and group discounts are not applicable for those who apply for programmes under this training grant.)

CPD Hours:

  • 24

 

Recommended follow-on programmes:

 

·          Effective Sales Training With NLP

·          Key Account Management – Growing Your Business

·          Power Negotiation Using Psychological Tools