Course Overview
This course builds on basic selling skills to enable the student to apply advanced tools and techniques in challenging selling situations. Topics covered are: new business development methods; analytical and questioning skills; business intelligence; customer knowledge; sales systems and technologies; persuasion and visual selling tools; customer loyalty strategies; difficult customer types; objection handling skills; coming to agreement methods. A key element of this course will be the development of persuasive sales presentations, focusing on questioning techniques and objection handling methods.
Prerequisite(s)
Credits
3.0
- Retired
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course you should be able to:
- Identify key issues currently impacting professional salespeople and explain how high performing salespeople are adapting.
- Evaluate technologies that improve the performance of a professional salesperson.
- Analyze personal time management systems to improve motivation and efficiency.
- Apply questioning skills to uncover and confirm complex needs of a prospect.
- Describe methods that increase business intelligence and customer knowledge.
- Identify Social Media strategies for salespeople.
- Describe several prospecting methods and apply them to business development for a variety of B2B selling situations.
- Explain new selling activities that increase customer retention and loyalty.
- Evaluate CRM systems and sales pipelines and define the benefits for salespeople.
- Explain issues currently impacting professional buyers and purchasing managers and describe how salespeople adapt to capitalize on these issues.
- Analyze and identify complex buying motives and what makes buyers difficult.
- Develop advanced objection handling techniques.
- Apply professional negotiation tactics in difficult selling situations.
- Explain the concepts of strategic selling and adaptive selling.
- Integrate professional, persuasive communication tools into a sales presentation.
- Develop and deliver a face-to-face presentation to a buyer using advanced selling skills
Effective as of Fall 2014
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