{"id":2486,"date":"2017-03-16T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/?p=2486"},"modified":"2019-04-03T09:44:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T13:44:23","slug":"thoughtful-thursdays-asking-questions-is-not-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/16\/thoughtful-thursdays-asking-questions-is-not-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughtful Thursdays &#8211; Asking questions is not enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I work with a lot of&nbsp;people who are new to sales and a common topic of discussion is sales call planning. It is not unusual to have the conversation about sales call planning and&nbsp;learn in our&nbsp;the follow up meeting that the planning part has not yet been adapted. On the surface, sales appears to be easy, but it definitely not.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s sales thought is about asking&nbsp;your prospects the&nbsp;right questions to get the information you need to facilitate the buying process.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to close more sales faster, then it is important that you get the information you need faster and sales call planning is key.<\/p>\n<p>Good questions begin with defining what information is required and identifying who has the answers<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>List what do you need to know &#8211; one item per line<\/li>\n<li>Who has the information you need &#8211; each line should have a contact name<\/li>\n<li>One question is often not enough &#8211; you may have to ask who has the information<\/li>\n<li>Prepare your questions<\/li>\n<li>Read and edit &#8211; be sure the questions seek the information you are seeking<\/li>\n<li>Customize your approach to the person you are going to ask if possible. Prepare different ways to ask the question in case &nbsp;you need to. What is clear to you may not be to your prospect<\/li>\n<li>Be mindful not to bombard your prospect with a barrage of questions &#8211; it may take more than one meeting<\/li>\n<li>Analyze the information you gather and move to the next step in your sales process<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Remember that it is process and some take longer than others to complete. Be relentless.<\/p>\n<p>Asking questions is not enough, they need to be the right questions.<b><\/b><i><\/i><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>Good selling,<br \/>\nRichard<\/p>\n<p>Have a question about sales? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sakanashiandassociates.com\/contact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Contact Sakanashi and Associates Inc.<\/a> and I will respond.<\/p>\n<p>Please share Thoughtful Thursdays posts with people you feel may find the topic interesting and helpful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I work with a lot of&nbsp;people who are new to sales and a common topic of discussion is sales call planning. It is not unusual to have the conversation about sales call planning and&nbsp;learn in&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/16\/thoughtful-thursdays-asking-questions-is-not-enough\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16,5,3],"tags":[60,52,35,73],"class_list":["post-2486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sales","category-sales-call-planning","category-sales-tips","category-thoughtful-thursdays","tag-sales-2","tag-sales-call-planning-2","tag-sales-tips-2","tag-thoughtful-thursdays"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2486"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3688,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions\/3688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}