Analyse Your Leads/Deals and Choose Which Can Be Closed at the Earliest

To close particular amount of deals in a month, you need to check your contact base and list of open deals.

This planning has to be done at least a month in advance. Why?

Because deals don’t get closed right when you want them to get closed. For this, check your open deals and try to get in touch with each and every deal at regular intervals.

How long to wait before contact is really a matter of how your sales funnel is set up and how long the buying cycle tends to be. If you haven’t figured these things out, take a look at calculating your sales velocity.

GOT CRM will help you with managing this pipeline as it will help you visualize which leads can be closed at the earliest.

Understand Their Pain Point

People can only be convinced that they need a solution when they understand that they have a problem.

If they started looking for your products, that’s easier to do. Understand why they started looking for a solution and why they reached out to you. If you reached out to them, you’ll have to gauge if it’s the right time and if they’re possibly looking for a solution.

Once you understand their core problem, selling can really begin.

Don’t Just Sell, Build Rapport, Use a Personal Touch

Knowing how to close a sales deal is a lot like know how to make friends. There are tons of solutions to solve one problem but people will buy your solution when you have built a rapport with them.

At the end, relationship matters.

Your solution might not be as full-featured as others, but they will still give a thought to go with you IF you have a relationship with your prospect.

How well do you follow-up with your contacts and deals on casual basis also makes a difference. Not just before, but even after the sale. Not just to sell but to build the rapport. It is important as it gives a sense to your clients that they are not being remembered only at the time of renewals or while the deal is closing.

Ask Yourself Few Questions Before You Sell.

Have your list of contacts in such a manner that will help you get clear picture of dates when you can touch base with them or contacts that have not been contacted recently etc.

These are just a few questions or steps that might sound unnecessary to close deals, but, trust me, they will in one way or the other help you to make that rapport with customers/prospects, which is necessary to close deals.

If you empathetically solve client’s issues and keep in touch with them, your prospects will readily make a purchase without any questions and will not look for any other solutions.

Create Urgency

Sometimes you think that your prospect will sign up with you or go for your solutions right when you reach out to them. But in reality they never purchase anything.

Here, it will be your role to create that urgency even if there was no urgency on your client’s end.

If you create a need for “right now”, half the work is done. You can make them realise that if they do not sign up with you, they will be wasting time in going by their current process. You can ensure them how fast your solutions can fetch them results.

Let’s take an example from mutual funds, real estate and/or insurance companies.

In India, the financial year starts from April to March. As soon as December ends, these insurance and mutual fund companies start advertising and reaching out to the target audience. They’re also successful in generating sales because from the beginning of January, people get focused towards saving income tax and this is the best time for these companies to create that urgency.

Know and Get in Touch with Decision Makers but Don’t Forget Influencers

Decision makers are important but it is not always necessary that a decision maker will be the end user of your product/service.

Try to check the influencer/champion, ask him/her to use your solution, and solve his/her problem. He/She will be the one who will influence the decision maker and convince them to buy your solution if you address his/her problem.

Let’s assume you are a lead generation, digital marketing, or CRM company and cater to problems faced by the sales/marketing team of any organization. It is not necessary that CEO or MD is a part of the sales or marketing team.

In such case, CEO or MD might not be much aware of the problems their sales manager or team leader is facing but if you are in touch with the manager and solve their problem, he/she will be the first one to recommend your solution to the CEO or MD.

Try to Cross Sell

Cross selling is the best option if you are unable to find leads that will close quickly.

If you have multiple products/services that can be sold to your existing customer, feel free to try cross selling. This will save your efforts on convincing a new prospect to go for your solutions.

Plus, trust and rapport building should already exist. If you’ve done it right, your customers will trust you if you sell them something new.

Let’s say you have developed HR software. Three products that cover payroll, leave and attendance respectively. And your target audience in this case can be HR or accounting team.

For payroll calculation, leave and attendance calculation is equally important. You might have sold payroll software to a client already but there is a possibility that he can also buy your leave and attendance management software, too.

In such case you can definitely cross sell your leave and attendance management software which can make a complete solution for your clients HR payroll management process. Cross selling might not always be apt but yes it can be worth a try.