Why Workshopping Your Sales Strategy Is Essential To Business Growth
Many years ago, I developed my first sales strategy for The Game Changers.
It converted pretty well, so I brought in a small team of sales reps to roll it out on a larger scale.
The thing is, I was converting about 82% of clients using this sales strategy. Where my new reps were converting about 30%.
While the industry told me that a 30% close rate on new sales was actually pretty good, I knew from my own experience that it could be better.
So I spent extensive time with my team, workshopping my strategy against their approach to sales. Everybody’s approach to sales is different - they have a different style, different values, different skills… all these factors can lead to vastly different outcomes.
It was only when we aligned their individual approach with my sales strategy that their close rates skyrocketed like I knew they could.
Look, cash is the lifeblood of any business.You cannot pay your staff, suppliers, or yourself without it.
And there’s no way to get that precious resource without sales of some kind.
So it pays to make sure your sales process is as finely tuned as it can be.
Workshopping every step of the sales process so that it flows for your customers and sales staff is the key for ensuring your business is set for growth.
Sales strategy workshops help you see beyond your limits
As business owners and entrepreneurs, we often have many amazing ideas.
And yet often our clients and prospects aren't us.
So we can go and develop and build the best service or product in the world and think that it's amazing. But the thing is, we know us, we know our product, we know our service… we’ve already overcome a lot of the objections to buying because we’re just so damn excited about our offer.
But when we can actually get around in a Mastermind environment with other people, and workshop our niche, workshop our offer, workshop our sales strategy, it really allows us to gain active feedback to understand the things we need to build in place to have a smooth sales process.
So you have ticked the boxes on every step that needs to happen for your customer to make the decision to buy.
Change the strategy, change the result
There’s a concept in NLP called strategy elicitation. Strategy elicitation is a way that you can elicit a strategy of how you do things, how you make decisions, how you react to certain situations… and when you can elicit the strategy you can actually change the outcome. Change your results.
Learning this concept years ago was a big epiphany for me. Especially because at the time, life wasn't going so well for me. And I just couldn't understand why all the results I was getting were so crappy. What I realised was the results that I was getting were actually the successful results of an unhelpful strategy.
So I realised if the results of a strategy are not what I want, I can't change them, they’ve already happened. But what I can change is a strategy and the process that created the result.
How The Game Changers Can Help Workshop Your Sales Strategy
If you’re a business owner and you’re looking for a community that can help you workshop your sales strategy, your marketing strategy, and pretty much any other strategy you’re running in your business, we can help.
Our Opulence community is an incredible group that all share what's working and what's not working in their marketing, sales, hiring, and every aspect of their business.
This sharing helps everyone to grow exponentially, faster and easier than going it alone.
If you’d like to explore joining us, let’s have a quick chat.
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