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Sales prospecting or business development is a key activity for most sales driven organisations and for most salespeople. It is also the cause of demise of most sales careers. Business development is a skill and must be mastered if you are to sustain a long-term sales career.

The current volatile economic environment, sagging consumer confidence, increasing customer distrust, more informed customers and tougher competition have put excessive pressure on sales teams in all companies making it harder and harder to get out there and develop new business.

As a professional salesperson you:

are facing growing pressure as others compete for your accounts, find yourself having to discount to bring home deals, struggle with sales cycles that just seem to get longer and longer

If that’s not bad enough, you still have to struggle to maintain a full pipeline. Do you ever wonder how others seem to manage?

The fear of rejection Do you dread the "prospecting" part of sales? Do you find the constant rejection excruciating?

Whilst effective prospecting is a critical component of sustainable sales success, it is not selling. As a salesperson, you may be a well trained in selling skills and product knowledge; you may not have learned specifically about prospecting. Business development is mostly learned through trial and error and unfortunately for many, ends up as a career disaster.

Effective training and coaching, tailored to suit each individual salesperson and their own specific issue around prospecting/business development, will have a huge impact on your sales revenue. It shouldn’t ever take a suit of armour and great gulps of courage to deal with the issues of fear of rejection during prospecting. It takes understanding and a plan.

Effective business development/prospecting requires a plan Winning salespeople recognise that to be effective at prospecting, it should never be done by the "seat of one’s pants". Effective sales prospecting/business development requires a well thought out plan. This means sitting with your manager or Sales Performance Coach and objectively assessing your current situation, setting realistic and achievable goals and creating both strategies and tactics to achieve that goal.

If you’ve been taught that Sales Prospecting is just a "numbers game", and to believe that a prospect is someone who can be convinced that they need your product, you’ve been playing the wrong game. One of the major causes of failure in sales is the fear of rejection. If your sales strategy is to see lots of people and play the numbers game, regardless of how qualified they are, you are simply setting yourself lots of rejection. If you believe that you need to get in front of as many prospects as possible, you’re confusing a "true prospect" with people who may be "interested" but unlikely to do business with you. When you play the prospecting game by attempting to "sell" an appointment with as many people as possible, you’re setting yourself up for failure and probable burnout.

"Don’t Go Fishing in the Sahara!" Traditionally salespeople are taught to "sell" to everyone they contact. They are taught that selling is a "numbers game." As a result of this out dated and out-moded way of selling, salespeople:

Waste much of their time. Avoid sales prospecting and business development because of rejection Lose interest and become demotivated Face prospects who don’t want to and have no interest in hearing about what they have to sell

Effective business development means shifting the paradigm from attempting to "sell" to everyone you contact, to contacting those potential customers who actually want what you’re selling! Winning salespeople effectively target those prospects with whom they to want to work. They identify, plan, and execute a well thought through prospecting effort.

As one of Australia’s leading authorities and coaches in sales management, Ian Segail has been involved in the coaching, training and development of sales managers and salespeople for over two decades. Drawing on 25 years of experience in sales, sales management and leading an HR and training team, Ian brings a strong dose of fiscal reality and practicality to his works as a Sales Performance Coach. Engaging directly with business owners and both novice and experienced sales managers alike, across a wide variety of industries and selling disciplines, the focus of Ian’s work is to transform sales results for companies by improving sales management practices. Ian is the author of “Bulletproof Your Sales Team ‐ The 5 Keys To Turbo‐Boosting Your Sales Team’s Results” and a number of business articles, business reports and white papers including “The fish stinks from the head!” and “Why Sales Training Doesn’t Work.” Ian has an insatiable hunger for studying selling and people management and has passionately pursued answers to the question “How come some people can sell and most can’t?” Check out some of Ian’s great free resources to improve your sales results at

www.salestutor.com.au

 

 

Your business is doing well. Your customer base is growing, and during the last quarter you actually turned a profit for the first time since you opened your doors last year. You have a solid business plan and now it’s time to think about moving out of your rented space, buying more equipment, or perhaps hiring more employees.

Perhaps your business is profitable but during your slow season you’re short of cash. Or your delivery truck just broke down and you have decided its time to get a new one. You need to get cash to keep your business moving forward. Where do you start?

The good news is that there are a wide variety of loan programs available that can be applied to almost any business situation. The bad news is that the choices can seem complex and overwhelming. Here are some options that a small business owner can consider:

Business Lines of Credit

If your business is profitable over the course of the fiscal year but there are times when you are short of cash because your income is seasonal or cyclical, you may benefit from a business line of credit. A line of credit provides access to cash for a variety of short-term financing needs and gives you the flexibility to draw on the line at any time as long as you pay down the balance.

Typically, once the line of credit is established funds are available when you need them, but the advantage is that you do not pay interest until you draw on the line. Lines can be secured or unsecured, with multiple repayment options and a variety of interest rates.

Interest rates generally range from nine to fifteen percent based your personal and business credit history and other factors. You would generally not use your business line of credit for expansion or capital investment, because you may not realize income from your expansion for many months. For expansion you should consider a loan.

Business Loans $25,000 and Up

A business loan provides access to cash for many kinds of one-time expenditures and long term financing needs such as fixed asset purchases, or business expansion or acquisition. Unlike a line of credit, a business loan is amortizing and is fully disbursed when you close the loan. You may have the ability to lock in an interest rate.

There are many types of business loans:

• Vehicle Loan — Finance the purchase of a new or used vehicle.

• Equipment Loan — Finance the purchase of new or used equipment.

• Real Estate Loan — Finance the purchase of commercial real estate.

• Secured Loan — Get permanent working capital, improve cash flow, purchase inventory and materials, finance accounts receivable, expand or remodel facilities.

• Agriculture Loan — Finance crop and livestock production expenses, purchase equipment, breed livestock, purchase land for farming or ranching.

• Cash-Secured Loan — Get permanent working capital, improve cash flow, refinance debt, purchase inventory, materials, equipment, or vehicles, finance accounts receivable.

Business loan rates depend on a number of factors, including the amount you borrow, your collateral, financial strength of your business, term of the loan, and your credit rating. Over the past ten years business loan rates have fluctuated between four and eleven percent.

Small Business Association (SBA) Loans

If you have less-than-stellar credit or you are not sure you qualify for a regular bank loan, you may qualify for a loan program backed by the Small Business Administration (SBA). The SBA has created a program of government-guaranteed loans designed to make loans to small businesses that may not otherwise qualify for credit. SBA loans make it possible to qualify businesses more easily and provide them with more flexible terms than conventional loan options. You can get more information at http://www.sba.gov/, or talk to your local commercial banker. The SBA does not make loans to small businesses; it is a guarantor of loans made by private banks and other institutions.

Talk to your local commercial bank when you’re ready to consider a line of credit or a loan, and you’ll see the range of choices available to you.

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