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SUMMARY:Selling processes and sales skills for marketing and BD professionals
DESCRIPTION:Many marketers in business development roles have not had sales training and may lack selling experience. Many are locked out of sales situations except perhaps in tenders. Yet selling skills are key to building commercial client and referrer relationships. Many M&BD professionals are expected to coach fee-earners in targeting, identifying opportunities, converting leads and navigating long and complex  sales cycles. This intensive half day workshop provides a comprehensive introduction to sales processes and selling skills.\nTopics covered\nModule One – Sales processes\n• Integrating marketing, selling and relationship development through sales pipelines\n• Discussion: The role of marketers in professional services selling\n• Client journeys, decision-making processes and buyer behaviour\n• Stages of business relationship development (in key segments)\n• Compare sales methodologies (consultative, challenger etc)\nExercise: Mapping your sales process\n• Strategy, segmentation, targeting and prospecting\n• Manage and convert enquiries effectively\n• Links to pitching and tenders\nModule Two – Selling Skills (Preparation)\nExercise: Assessing selling skills\n• Core selling skills\n• Initiate contact\nExercise: Drafting initial contact communications and other techniques\n• Follow up\n• Prepare for meetings\n• Research, opportunity spotting and value proposition development\nExercise: Research and preparing a sales briefing pack\nModule Three – Selling Skills (In Action)\n• Empathy, rapport, trust and relationship development\n• Identify needs: Questioning skills and active listening\n• Commercial thinking: Identifying opportunities\n• Develop solutions, differentiation and value propositions\n• Psychology of selling and persuasion techniques\n• Tips on price negotiation, objection handling and closing\nSales management:\n• Social media in selling and relationship management\n• Information systems to support fee-earner sales activities\n• Selling and relationship management metrics\nExercise: Developing your sales management information and plan\n\nPricing\nFirst attendee £270 +VAT\nSecond attendee £260 + VAT\nAll subsequent attendees £250 + VAT\n\n\nBook now\n\n				#wpforms-9934 {\n				--wpforms-field-size-input-height: 43px;\n--wpforms-field-size-input-spacing: 15px;\n--wpforms-field-size-font-size: 16px;\n--wpforms-field-size-line-height: 19px;\n--wpforms-field-size-padding-h: 14px;\n--wpforms-field-size-checkbox-size: 16px;\n--wpforms-field-size-sublabel-spacing: 5px;\n--wpforms-field-size-icon-size: 1;\n--wpforms-label-size-font-size: 16px;\n--wpforms-label-size-line-height: 19px;\n--wpforms-label-size-sublabel-font-size: 14px;\n--wpforms-label-size-sublabel-line-height: 17px;\n--wpforms-button-size-font-size: 17px;\n--wpforms-button-size-height: 41px;\n--wpforms-button-size-padding-h: 15px;\n--wpforms-button-size-margin-top: 10px;\n--wpforms-container-shadow-size-box-shadow: none;\n			}\n			Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.Attendee details *FirstLastJob Title *Company Name *Company Email *Is your firm based outside  the UK? 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Substitutions can be made at any time. PMI reserves the right to cancel with no liability beyond refund of fees paid.\nEligibility\nThis training course is open solely to member firms of the PM Forum, a worldwide group of over 3,000 marketers in professional services firms.\n\n
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