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The Last Word - June 2011

What type of business consultant do you mostvalue?“I value my coach the most. I always have a coach and sometimes more than

one. Coaching makes me think. As a business owner I need to stretch and

learn constantly. My coach helps me stay focused on my business and

continuous improvement so I can do a great job for my customers.”

Alice R. Heiman • President & Chief Sales Officer, Alice Heiman, LLC

“Business marketing consulting is extremely important to my small business. Having a

professional and experienced marketing team on my side allows me the freedom to focus on my

clients and services.”

Marcus Niemo • Owner, Body Fit Las Vegas

“As a CPA, CVA, CFF I am often retained to provide an expert opinion. A skilled attorney, one

that is able to timely obtain documents for analysis and then understand and communicate my

findings, is invaluable. An attorney willing to invest this kind of time is more likely to help the

client succeed.”

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“Our marketing representatives are most valuable to me. They help me focus on the positive

aspects of my company and encourage me to broadcast our strengths. Plus, marketing comes

with a ‘fun factor’ that other business consultants often lack.”

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Doug Roberts • Senior Vice

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By Alice R. Heiman

Manager: “Jay, how did that sales call go?”

Salesperson: “Great!”

Manager: “Did you close the deal?”

Salesperson: “No, but they love me and they want the product.”

Manager: “When will it close?”

Salesperson: “Probably this quarter.”

Sound familiar? What does this sales manager now know about the sales call his salesperson just finished? The answer: not much.

Coaching salespeople when they return from a sales call is important business. It needs to be done routinely and consistently. Way toomany salespeople “wing it” and others may try to prepare but just really don’t know how to do so effectively.

Successful sales calls have several ingredients:

Pre-call preparation1.Execution2.Post-call assessment3.Follow up on commitments4.

Salespeople will do a much better job if they know they may be asked for very specific information after a sales call. In fact, having apost-call report format is a good idea, but a quick email or phone call with the right information can tell you exactly where the salespersonstands with that sales objective.

Salespeople should prepare for sales calls. At a minimum they should look at their call notes from the last call, determine how to makethe best use of the time, determine their objective, write down the questions they need to have answered to move the sale forward, and

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determine the action the customer would need to take to move the sale forward.

The preparation will improve their execution and help insure they don’t forget anything. It will also make the customer feel like their timeis valued and used wisely.

The post-call assessment is critical to ensuring your salespeople will be top performers. You won’t be able to assess every sales call butintermittently working with salespeople on this is crucial. These post-call assessments can be very quick and painless.

Here are some questions you could ask:

What did you do to prepare for the call?1.What was your objective for the call? 2.What did you do to make good use of the customer’s time?3.What questions did you get answered that tell you where the customer is in the sales process?4.What are the next steps?5.What action did the customer commit to take?6.What action did you commit to take?7.Did the customer give you a close-date?8.What will you do in follow up to this sales call?9.

Far too often salespeople get way ahead of the customer. As in the conversation at the beginning of this article, they predict a close-datebased on their quota instead of on the customer’s needs. The end of the quarter comes and the business doesn’t close and many times thesalesperson doesn’t understand why. The only way to know when a deal will close is to ask the customer. To avoid missed quotasmanagers need to debrief with their salespeople using questions similar to those above. This will help insure that the salesperson ismoving along at the same speed as the customer.

Another thing this process will help is over-commitment on the part of the salesperson. Salespeople are quick to promise the world if theythink it will close a deal. That is why questions 6 and 7 are so important. By asking those questions you can determine if the commitmentof the salesperson is comparable to that of the customer. If it is way beyond, it may be a sign that the salesperson doesn’t understandwhere the customer is in the sales process. If the customer doesn’t commit to do anything to move the sale forward, the salesperson mayneed to change the strategy.

Managers will have fewer surprises if they make these questions a part of their daily coaching routine. Benefits will be a shorter salescycle, more efficient selling and better close ratios. In the long run, this will lead to more accurate forecasting.

Alice Heiman is the founder and Chief Sales Officer of Alice Heiman, LLC (www.AliceHeiman.com). As a sales expert, Heiman mentorssales executives, transforming them into proactive coaches, while helping management establish a sales culture that will continue togrow the bottom line. Her blog can be viewed at http://smartsalestips.com/

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The Last Word - June 2011

What type of business consultant do you mostvalue?“I value my coach the most. I always have a coach and sometimes more than

one. Coaching makes me think. As a business owner I need to stretch and

learn constantly. My coach helps me stay focused on my business and

continuous improvement so I can do a great job for my customers.”

Alice R. Heiman • President & Chief Sales Officer, Alice Heiman, LLC

“Business marketing consulting is extremely important to my small business. Having a

professional and experienced marketing team on my side allows me the freedom to focus on my

clients and services.”

Marcus Niemo • Owner, Body Fit Las Vegas

“As a CPA, CVA, CFF I am often retained to provide an expert opinion. A skilled attorney, one

that is able to timely obtain documents for analysis and then understand and communicate my

findings, is invaluable. An attorney willing to invest this kind of time is more likely to help the

client succeed.”

Dana L. Tompkins, CPA, CVA, CFF • Stockholder, Business Valuation & Forensic Advisors

“Our marketing representatives are most valuable to me. They help me focus on the positive

aspects of my company and encourage me to broadcast our strengths. Plus, marketing comes

with a ‘fun factor’ that other business consultants often lack.”

Frank Gatski • CEO, Gatski Commercial Real Estate Services

“In commercial development the real estate

broker is extremely important. Their input

is invaluable in deciding whether to build

the project and the rental rates and type of

tenant we can expect. After it is built they

help market the project and serve as a

valuable member of our team.”

Doug Roberts • Senior Vice

President/Project Principal, Panattoni

Development Company, Inc.

“All consultants provide value, but

personally I place the highest value on marketing. They are usually associated with enhancing

the brand, and growing the business. Marketing consultants that do their job well add tangible

value to the business, and generate the highest ROI amongst consultant services.”

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By Alice Heiman

What is going on with that huge deal that was supposed to close last month? Why isn’t that deal closed yet? It seems like everything isstuck in the pipeline, when are these deals going to close?

There isn’t a sales manager alive who hasn’t wondered why the salespeople aren’t closing deals, especially the deals that were forecast. Sales managers expect and rely on accurate information about when deals will be closing. “Accurate” is the operative word here becausewhat most salespeople give their managers is their best guess of the dates on which they would like their sales to close. Then, when dealsdon’t close in that timeframe there is always a “good reason” or some excuse as to why the deal hasn’t closed.

Closing is not about the salesperson or your company. It is about the customer and their needs and timeline. When salespeople get aheadof customers in the sales cycle, they usually predict the close without any input from the customer at all. They seemingly pull a date outof thin air or assume a date that allows them to make quota that month. What they rarely figure into the forecast is the close date has tocome from the customer. It is the date the customer is ready to buy, as it is almost impossible to force someone into closing a deal whenhe or she is not ready. If something weird should happen and salespeople actually force the close, they usually find themselves in a verybad position and often that customer will probably never buy from them again. Worse, the customer may tell others about the situation.

The most common reasons deals don’t close are:

The competition comes in at the end with something “better.”Something at the customer company has changed (that no one knew about).The budget was appropriated to another project.The possible sale was fiction – the salesperson was clueless and it wasn’t going to close in the first place.The salesperson (or someone at your company) did something to irritate the buyers.

All of these can really be summed up in one word, “position”. Your salesperson was not positioned well enough to completely

understand the buyers and their needs, including timeframe.

Positioning is the key to closing and positioning depends on many factors, the customer’s budget, budget cycle, needs, attitudes,accounting practices, decision making policies and let’s not forget the competition. It is the salesperson’s job to ask questions to uncoverall of the information needed so he or she can get well positioned. Who are the decision makers involved in this sale, is there a budgetestablished, what is the procedure for procurement, what is their attitude toward your solution, what is the competition for this sale is it anin-house solution, another vendor or using the money for something completely different?

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Asking good questions and listening is the only way that I know of to combat the “Oh, no, it’s not going to close”. Sales managers need tocoach their salespeople to uncover and gather the information needed to be well positioned. This is the only way he only way to get anaccurate close date from the customer and/or to get information first hand if that changes.

Questions like these need to be asked early in the sales cycle: What is your timeline for having this purchase completed? When do youneed this to be up and running? When do you want to have this installed? The answers to these questions will help the salesperson start atimeline that will allow him to help the customer get what is needed. If a customer wants something installed or up and running by acertain date the salesperson can help them work backwards from there to understand the timeline for signing the contract.

Other important questions are: Who else besides yourself will be involved in this decision? Will we need approval from any otherdepartments? Are there others you would like me to talk with about the product and how it will work? These questions are importantbecause what holds up a deal many times is that the key contact working with the salesperson is not the final decision maker and has noauthority to proceed. They may be waiting on approval from someone that is unknown to the salesperson and so the deal doesn’t close. Knowing early in the game all the people involved in the decision gives the salesperson a chance to get to know the others and theirviews. Often, it also allows the salesperson to bring in management, to get better positioned with the decision makers. It is very rarethese days that any one person at a company would make a buying decision of any size on their own, so salespeople must be coached tofind all of the decision makers.

For salespeople to know where they stand and what they are up against in a sale, they should ask questions like these: What do you seeas my competition for this sale, other vendors, and in-house solution another use for the same dollars?

Keep in mind that most of what you do to be sure a deal closes has to be done early in the sales cycle. When the deal is stalled at the endit most likely is too late. That is not to say a deal can’t be saved at that time, it is just much harder and the probability of success is lower. At this point salespeople have to be coached to go back and ask tough questions like these: This deal was moving along and it looked likewe would close on this date, what has happened to delay that? What did I miss in the decision making process? It appears to me thatsomething has changed and I am not aware of what that is, can you help me understand?

Closing should not be a big deal. If you have a solution that a customer wants, at a price they are willing to pay and understand theirneeds and timeline, then your sale will close. It will close when the customer is ready for it to close and you will have a happy customerthat will more than likely buy from you again and become a good referral source. Closing, it’s all about the customer.

Alice Heiman is the founder and Chief Sales Officer of Alice Heiman, LLC (www.AliceHeiman.com). As a sales expert, Heiman mentorssales executives, transforming them into proactive coaches, while helping management establish a sales culture that will continue to growthe bottom line. Her blog can be viewed at http://smartsalestips.com/

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