So you want to be a success at selling? Part 4: Closing the sale Bestseller

Part 4: Closing the sale

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  • Overview

    Learning objectives

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


    Closing the sale video resource

    This classic series is ideal for new sales recruits or as a refresher for experienced members of the sales team. 

    Closing the sale is an area where even skilled salespeople fear rejection. In this resource they will find out how to conclude a deal efficiently and effectively.

    Other 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.

    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.


    Training your sales people to...

    • Gain a greater understanding of customers and their needs
    • Learn to 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 4 (29 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. Be salesman not a collecting agent http://mx.videoarts.com/product/SEL4 L01/Be-salesman-not-a-collecting-agent?ver=KH http://mx.videoarts.com/images/products/SEL4.JPG
      John Cleese plays a travelling salesman. He is listening to a portable sales mentor who teaches him the best and most effective ways to close a sale.... (read more)
    2. Widen your horizons http://mx.videoarts.com/product/SEL4 L02/Widen-your-horizons?ver=KH http://mx.videoarts.com/images/products/SEL4.JPG
      John Cleese plays a travelling salesman. He is listening to a portable sales mentor who teaches him to widen his horizons and think bigger when closing a sale.... (read more)
    3. Think of all the positive http://mx.videoarts.com/product/SEL4 L03/Think-of-all-the-positive?ver=KH http://mx.videoarts.com/images/products/SEL4.JPG
      John Cleese plays a travelling salesman. He is listening to a portable sales mentor who teaches him widen his horizons, think bigger and think of all the positives when closing a sale.... (read more)
    4. Think bigger - summary http://mx.videoarts.com/product/SEL4 L04/Think-bigger---summary?ver=KH http://mx.videoarts.com/images/products/SEL4.JPG
      A summary of the three learning chapters on closing a sale.... (read more)
    5. Try for an early close http://mx.videoarts.com/product/SEL4 L05/Try-for-an-early-close?ver=KH http://mx.videoarts.com/images/products/SEL4.JPG
      John Cleese plays a travelling salesman. He is listening to a portable sales mentor who teaches him the importance of trying for an early close on a sale.... (read more)

    6. Build an agreement staircase http://mx.videoarts.com/product/SEL4 L06/Build-an-agreement-staircase?ver=KH http://mx.videoarts.com/images/products/SEL4.JPG
      John Cleese plays a travelling salesman, he is listening to a portable sales mentor who teaches him what an agreement staircase is and how to build one when trying to get an order.... (read more)
    7. Use silence http://mx.videoarts.com/product/SEL4 L07/Use-silence?ver=KH http://mx.videoarts.com/images/products/SEL4.JPG
      John Cleese plays a travelling salesman. He is listening to a portable sales mentor who shows him the importance of using silence when trying to get an order.... (read more)
    8. Ask for the order - summary http://mx.videoarts.com/product/SEL4 L08/Ask-for-the-order---summary?ver=KH http://mx.videoarts.com/images/products/SEL4.JPG
      A summary of the three learning chapters on an early close on a sale.... (read more)
    9. Prepare closes http://mx.videoarts.com/product/SEL4 L09/Prepare-closes?ver=KH http://mx.videoarts.com/images/products/SEL4.JPG
      John Cleese plays a travelling salesman. He is listening to a portable sales mentor who shows him the importance of preparing a close and how persisting can get the answers you need to any objections from the customer.... (read more)
    10. Work out recovery lines http://mx.videoarts.com/product/SEL4 L10/Work-out-recovery-lines?ver=KH http://mx.videoarts.com/images/products/SEL4.JPG
      John Cleese plays a travelling salesman. He is listening to a portable sales mentor who suggests he work out some recovery lines to aid the close of a sale.... (read more)

    11. Keep the door open http://mx.videoarts.com/product/SEL4 L11/Keep-the-door-open?ver=KH http://mx.videoarts.com/images/products/SEL4.JPG
      John Cleese plays a travelling salesman. He is listening to a portable sales mentor who shows him that by keeping the door open he can have more success of closing a sale.... (read more)
    12. Keep trying - summary http://mx.videoarts.com/product/SEL4 L12/Keep-trying---summary?ver=KH http://mx.videoarts.com/images/products/SEL4.JPG
      A summary of the three learning chapters on preparing a close on a sale.... (read more)
    13. Summary http://mx.videoarts.com/product/SEL4 L13/Summary?ver=KH http://mx.videoarts.com/images/products/SEL4.JPG
      A summary of the lessons on successful selling.... (read more)

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