Sales Process - Important for Every Salesmen

To Become good in to sales, Its important to follow the correct and standared Sales Process
You should map out your sales process for approaching a particular client before you start anything else।

A simple process might look something like this:
Pre-qualification – You take a call from a prospect. You should gather information about them, to establish if and how you might be able to help them, and give them some information about your business. This stage should be biased towards listening.
Information – Send them or direct them to relevant information as a follow up to your initial conversation. You might send them an email with a link to an article on your website, send them a targeted brochure or a couple of case studies. Remember less is more – they won’t sit and read pages and pages so keep it brief and relevant.
Appointment Setting – If you believe you can help them ask to see them. You need dedicated time with them to find out more about their business. You might offer an initial consultation free of charge if this is appropriate.
Preparation – the meeting should primarily be an information gathering exercise. So make sure you do your own initial research so that you know the basics about them and can ask more searching questions to expose their real needs and explore how you might be able to help.
Meeting – have an agenda and make sure you are clear on the questions you want to explore. I always think there’s no harm in taking charge of the meeting and declaring your agenda up front. That way you both know what to expect.
People love to talk about themselves and their own business but you might need to ask appropriate questions to keep things on track.
Proposal – Unless really pushed don’t propose the solution in the meeting itself. You will have gathered a lot of information and need time to think things through and match your solutions to the client needs. Do however get a proposal to them quickly after the meeting. Obviously the actual length of time will depend on the complexity of the work – but anything more than a week after the meeting starts to look disinterested.
Follow Up – When you send the proposal you should let them know you’ll follow up. Prepare carefully for your follow up call. Identify potential objections and have answers and ideas ready to counter these objections. And don’t forget to listen and ask the right questions – if they say it’s not what they expected dig deep to find out why. If they claim circumstances have changed ask in what way and don’t be afraid to ask if price is an issue, having decided in advance whether you can negotiate on this element.
Sign up – this is your goal. Make sure you cover all the bases – do you need them to sign a contract, have you explained your terms and conditions. Don’t shy away from the discussion about invoicing dates etc. You want to get the relationship off to a good start, which means both parties know where they stand.

So if you want to become a star salesman overnight perhaps an evening spent documenting and understanding your own sales process, and where it could be improved, would be an evening well spent।

Dollar hits 1-yr low, Asia stocks at 13-mth high

Dollar hits 1-yr low, Asia stocks at 13-mth high

"Wed, Sep 23 12:14 PM Enlarge Photo An employee working as a money changer prepares U.S. dollar currency for a customer in... The dollar slid to a one-year low against a basket of currencies as market players seized on surprisingly strong New Zealand economic growth data as a reason to push the kiwi dollar higher and dump the U.S. currency.
Even as many commodity prices dipped, the dollar's drop has boosted oil and metals and lifted resource-related shares around the region. Commodity-heavy Australian stocks outperformed most other markets in the region, nudging Asian shares to a 13-month peak.
'It's a mixture of optimism about global growth and stronger commodity prices, which is particularly good for Australia,' said Tom Elliott, a fund manager with MM&E Capital, which oversees about A$50 million in"