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  • Overview

    Learning objectives

    To give all sales staff a solid grounding in core sales skills.


    About the programme

    This classic series is ideal for new sales recruits or as a refresher for experienced members of the sales team. Part 3: Difficult Customers  deals with the duckers, ditherers and dictators that often stand in the way of progress. How to use people's anxieties, laziness or vanity are some of the suggested techniques to help get things moving.

    Other video resources in the success at selling series

    Part 1:The Preparation shows why it is imperative for salespeople to get to know their customers and to understand how their products or services can benefit their client.

    How to explain the benefits, meet objections, and spot the buying signals is covered in Part 2: The Presentation Sales staff learn how to stay cool and dispassionate even when a customer criticises them or their products.

    Finally, it's time to close the deal in Part 4: Closing The Sale. This is an area where even skilled salespeople fear rejection - and so delay closing. They will find out how to conclude a deal efficiently and effectively.

    This invaluable programme utilises proven techniques to underpin messages and sets out all the key sales fundamentals.


    Training sales teams to...

    • Gain a greater understanding of customers and their needs
    • Overcome obstacles and criticism when doing a deal
    • Control and speed up the transaction by learning to handle difficult customers
    • Close a deal efficiently and effectively every time

    Programme includes

    • Video: part 3 (25 mins)
    • Course leader's guide (PDF)

    Featuring John Cleese

    A Video Arts production featuring John Cleese, Geoffrey Palmer, Nigel Hawthorne, Diana Quick and Andrew Sachs. Release dates: 1981,1981,1983,1984

  • Learning chapters

    1. An introduction to objection handling http://awww.videoarts.com/product/SEL3 L01/An-introduction-to-objection-handling?ver=DE http://awww.videoarts.com/images/products/SEL3.JPG
      John Cleese plays a travelling salesman. He is listening to a portable sales mentor who introduces him to objection handling and how to deal with the difficult customers.... (read more)
    2. The desperate ducker http://awww.videoarts.com/product/SEL3 L02/The-desperate-ducker?ver=DE http://awww.videoarts.com/images/products/SEL3.JPG
      John Cleese plays a travelling salesman. He is listening to a portable sales mentor who introduces him to objection handling and we meet the desperate ducker.... (read more)
    3. Side step http://awww.videoarts.com/product/SEL3 L03/Side-step?ver=DE http://awww.videoarts.com/images/products/SEL3.JPG
      John Cleese plays a travelling salesman. He is listening to a portable sales mentor who shows him one of the things to do with the desperate ducker: side step.... (read more)
    4. Use their anxieties http://awww.videoarts.com/product/SEL3 L04/Use-their-anxieties?ver=DE http://awww.videoarts.com/images/products/SEL3.JPG
      John Cleese plays a travelling salesman. He is listening to a portable sales mentor who shows him to use the desperate ducker-s anxieties. Close a sale.... (read more)
    5. The disorganised ditherer http://awww.videoarts.com/product/SEL3 L05/The-disorganised-ditherer?ver=DE http://awww.videoarts.com/images/products/SEL3.JPG

    6. Be a nurse maid http://awww.videoarts.com/product/SEL3 L06/Be-a-nurse-maid?ver=DE http://awww.videoarts.com/images/products/SEL3.JPG
      John Cleese plays a travelling salesman. He is listening to a portable sales mentor who shows him one of the ways to deal with the disorganised ditherer. Be a nurse maid.... (read more)
    7. Restate their criticism as a positive http://awww.videoarts.com/product/SEL3 L07/Restate-their-criticism-as-a-positive?ver=DE http://awww.videoarts.com/images/products/SEL3.JPG
      John Cleese plays a travelling salesman. He is listening to a portable sales mentor who shows him one of the ways to deal with the disorganised ditherer. Restate their criticism as a positive.... (read more)
    8. Use their laziness http://awww.videoarts.com/product/SEL3 L08/Use-their-laziness?ver=DE http://awww.videoarts.com/images/products/SEL3.JPG
      John Cleese plays a travelling salesman. He is listening to a portable sales mentor who shows him one of the ways to deal with the disorganised ditherer. Use their laziness.... (read more)
    9. The domineering dictator http://awww.videoarts.com/product/SEL3 L09/The-domineering-dictator?ver=DE http://awww.videoarts.com/images/products/SEL3.JPG
      John Cleese plays a travelling salesman. He is listening to a portable sales mentor who introduces him to objection handling and we meet the domineering dictator.... (read more)
    10. Get them to reveal their prejudices http://awww.videoarts.com/product/SEL3 L10/Get-them-to-reveal-their-prejudices?ver=DE http://awww.videoarts.com/images/products/SEL3.JPG
      John Cleese plays a travelling salesman. He is listening to a portable sales mentor who shows him a way of handling the domineering dictator, by getting them to reveal their prejudices.... (read more)

    11. Relate your product to their needs http://awww.videoarts.com/product/SEL3 L11/Relate-your-product-to-their-needs?ver=DE http://awww.videoarts.com/images/products/SEL3.JPG
      John Cleese plays a travelling salesman. He is listening to a portable sales mentor who shows him a way of handling the domineering dictator: associate your product with the qualities they admire.... (read more)
    12. Use their vanity http://awww.videoarts.com/product/SEL3 L12/Use-their-vanity?ver=DE http://awww.videoarts.com/images/products/SEL3.JPG
      John Cleese plays a travelling salesman. He is listening to a portable sales mentor who shows him a way of handling the domineering dictator by using their vanity to get a decision.... (read more)
    13. Summary http://awww.videoarts.com/product/SEL3 L13/Summary?ver=DE http://awww.videoarts.com/images/products/SEL3.JPG
      A summary of the lessons on successful selling.... (read more)

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