Posts Tagged ‘Quid Pro Quo Selling’

Quid Pro Quo Sales Training: How to use Content in Social Media

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

Are you using content correctly in social media to enhance your profession in sales? Social Media is becoming an important tool today.

What and how do you use your information and content in your profession? Let’s take a look. There four ways information can be used:

  1. Market your business
  2. Educate potential clients
  3. Build your expert status
  4. Create residual incomes

What kind of content do you need to create?

  • Informational
  • Educational
  • Incoming building
  • Expert status -

Quite a few sales professionals are just starting out with social media. What you want to do initially is to concentrate on getting yourself, your business, product or service known, and start educating potential clients.

Becoming the expert in your field doesn’t always reap the benefits, meaning it doesn’t always bring in the revenue you anticipated. You might be famous, have many followers on the different social media platforms, but your bottom line isn’t growing.

Social Media isn’t always about being seen as the sales expert or sales guru, Your first concern when engaging in social media is your career, business, product or service and to make sure it’s stable and profitable.

Develop your credibility with good content, content that is helpful and content that teaches your client or potential client something. Create content that helps them solve their problem. Learn how to share your content in a quid pro quo selling style and you will soon see how impressed people will be with your credibility.

One thing we stress in our Quid Pro Quo Sales training courses is credibility and being seen as a trusted advisor. Use your content correctly to build influence, credibility and visibility.

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The Competitor Conflict

Friday, January 21st, 2011

During one of our Quid Pro Quo Sales Training classes I had a participant come up and express concern about how a competitor was demonstrating some very inappropriate and unprofessional behavior and wanted to know what to do to stop it.

Well, there isn’t a perfect solution to stop this type of behavior.

Remember what Quid Pro Quo Sales Training is teaching you. It’s teaching you how to build relationships and not that we ever want to second guess why the competitor is acting in such an unprofessional manner, we might suspect they just don’t know how to develop meaningful business relationships and they keep on missing opportunities.  Their only “offense” is to bad mouth you.

It’s difficult to reach out to competitors who act like this.

During Quid Pro Quo Sales Training we discuss the importance of building relationship not only with your clients or prospects but with competitors. Yes, your competitors.  Even you are a competitor to someone and everyone needs to develop strong business relationships with clients or prospect and at the same time maintain a working relationship with a competitor. It means taking the time to invest in yourself.

Competitors who fail to develop relationships with their competitors really make themselves look bad.  It might not be today, or tomorrow but eventually they will look bad.  Just remember you always want to leave your client or prospect with a good feeling about you, your product, or service.

Never speak badly about your competitors no matter how bad they speak of you.

The Sales Expert Part 1 – Characteristics – by Bob Beck

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

As you develop your career as a sales professional with the ultimate goal of becoming a Sales Expert, you need to develop various characteristics to achieve success.

No matter what you are selling, a sales expert is someone who has gained experience with a combination of hard dedicated work, persistence, sales training and learning how to control the entire sales cycle with a genuine consultative selling approach and at the same time move out of your comfort zone, reach out and try new techniques.

We call this Quid Pro Quo Selling™. – Quid Pro Quo is a Latin term that means, what for what.  In selling terms, we define it to mean something of value exchanged for something of equal value.  This approach details how to control the sales cycle while employing a consultative sales approach and putting it in a framework of an authentic franchise mentality.

To begin let’s take a closer look at the Characteristics of a Sales Expert:

  1. Choosing to Succeed
  2. Commitment
  3. Discipline and Setting Goals
  4. Increasing Knowledge
  5. Attitude
  6. Confidence
  7. Competitive Spirit
  8. Focus
  9. Creativity
  10. Courage and Character
  11. Mental Toughness
  12. Leadership

Now take a moment to score yourself on each attribute with 1 being poor and 10 being the best.  How did you do?  Keep a record of this and review everyday and compare to the day before.  This is something that only takes about 30 seconds to accomplish each day.  Look for areas you need to improve in.

If you have found your score low in a particular area and you’re not succeeding you need to continuously practice to improve. Leaning the Quid Pro Quo Selling™ technique will enhance your career and put you on the path of becoming a Sales Expert.

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Key words: Bob Beck, sales training, sales trainer, customized sales training, solution selling, executive selling, strategic selling, lead generation, sales prospecting, sales force training, sales training program.