Sales Prospecting and Business Development

Workshop Description

There are two kinds of sales professionals – those who hate to prospect, and those who lie and say they like it. Acquiring new prospects and generating new business is critical for sales and business professionals. Yet, companies frequently make the common mistakes of not providing their people with the skills to succeed at sales prospecting.  Sales professionals are too often focusing on the wrong accounts and spending time on low payoff activities such as cold calling. The Sales Prospecting and Business Development workshop addresses these common mistakes.  

Who Should Attend?

Experienced sales professionals will benefit by upgrading their business development skills. Newer sales professionals will learn prospecting skills needed for a solid foundation for success. The Sales Prospecting workshop also helps entrepreneurs and other professionals who have to develop business relationships in order to grow their business and sell their company’s products or services, but don’t consider themselves as fulltime sales people (for example, business owners, consultants, financial service professionals, technical representatives and accountants).

Workshop Topics and Objectives 

The topics shown below are for the two day version of the Sales Prospecting and Business Development workshop. You select the most relevant topics for your sales team. We will then customize the workshop content and duration at no cost to you.

Identifying the Best Sales Opportunities: Learn a process to identify the best sales opportunities. Understand the importance of selecting strategic prospects rather than going after "easy wins” that don’t fit your business objectives.

Generating Leads: Methods to generate new leads that don’t rely on cold calling. We will highlight creative and effective methods to generate new leads, such as how to ask for and get referrals, and how to use the internet.

Questioning and Qualifying: Questioning skills to help you probe and qualify prospects and identify the best sales opportunities, using a sophisticated technique known as IDEAL Questioning™

Planning for Initial Sales Meetings: Guidelines for what to say and do during the first conversation or meeting. Each person will learn how to prepare and tailor elevator speeches for different sales situations.

Gaining Access to Decision-makers: Tips and techniques for identifying, meeting, and presenting to high level decision-makers

Responding to Objections from New Customers: Creative and effective responses to the most common objections that new customers tend to express, such as "I’m satisfied with my current provider” and "Let me think about it.” 

The Sales Prospecting and Business Development workshop content, duration, and delivery options can be customized for your company and primary audience. Peak Selling provides a full line of customized sales and sales management workshops, offering instructor-led training, online training, and coaching

Customization and Delivery Options

The Sales Prospecting and Business Development workshop content, duration, and delivery options can be customized for your company and primary audience. Peak Selling provides a full line of customized sales and sales management workshops, offering instructor-led training, online training, and coaching

Need a customized workshop in Spanish? Contact us to schedule a time to talk with our Senior Bilingual Instructor (Instructor Bio in English and in Spanish).

Free 15 minute phone consultation.