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Outbound Skills That Get Results!

 

Is Outbound really that different from Inbound selling? Absolutely. It requires a different mindset and a different set of skills, at least for the first minute of the call. At the same time, most of our clients are calling on existing or previously active customers. This adds a dynamic which prevents sales associates from using aggressive cold-calling techniques (thankfully). Sales Mastery Outbound provides a complete formula for mastering all the dynamics present when a sales associate makes a call.

Call 800-683-9022 to discuss your Outbound center's needs and to see whether Sales Mastery Outbound is the right solution for you.

SM Outbound Will Improve Or Eliminate The Following

      - Sales results are not meeting or exceeding targeted levels.

      - Sales people do not make enough dials because of too much wrap-up time.
      - Greetings sound lifeless, eliminating many opportunities before they ever begin.
      - Sales people do not try to build rapport for fear of causing callers to hang up.
      - Sales people do not do any icebreaking or reducing of tension.
      - Sales people are afraid to ask Needs Analysis questions so they rush right to the “pitch.”
      - Twenty sales calls will sound completely different because there is no common formula.
      - Sales people get wordy when introducing products - and do not “bring them to life.”
      - Sales people hesitate when closing for the sale.
      - Initial “knee-jerk” objections (“Too busy to talk.”) are enough to get callers off the phone.
      - Late call objections are not handled properly (or not at all).

Sales Mastery Outbound is all about proven skills! Clients use our formula in many different industries. The reason it works is simple. We combine an easy-to-grasp formula, backed up by proven Outbound skills. Your sales associates will make many of the sales they miss out on today because they will increase their odds for success at every step.

Sales Mastery Outbound Formula

It all happens very quickly, but sales people use each step. This is because every step makes the next one a little more effective. A better, more fun and relaxing greeting means fewer Reflexive Objections and one or two extra moments to ask questions, etc.

Sales Mastery Outbound Course Agenda

Day One

1) Immediate Buyer Interest: This module introduces Key Greeting Skills & Instant Rapport Skills. Participants also learn ways to Reduce Early-Call Tension and use the very unique Preemptive Statement to keep callers from hanging up or trying a Reflexive Objection.  Our first module is the most comprehensive of the program.  It includes greeting and introduction tecniques, "Vocal Do's and Don'ts" and more.


2) Reflexive Objections Process: Some callers may still say “I’m too busy to talk right now.” In this module, participants learn how to redirect these early-call objections, keeping the caller on the line – and listening! Callers do not get upset, which means we can still have a productive dialogue.


3) Needs Identification: We introduce SM Outbound’s Quick-Questioning skills. Participants learn skills for getting to know the caller and identifying Needs/Goals – all in 20 seconds or less. This module’s questioning techniques are completely different (and more phone friendly) than most sales training models.

Day Two


4) Presenting The Solution: Sales people learn to present their product as a solution to the caller’s Need or Goal. The module introduces the Single-Strong-Appeal for bringing the product to life and for building caller urgency to buy today.


5) Assertive Closing: There is no point in compelling the caller to buy if we are not going to give them the chance. In this module, sales people illustrate how quickly and easily they can get the product into the caller’s hands, and the benefit of doing so right away. A simple agreement (no “permission-focused closing”) from the caller and the sale has been completed. We refer to this process as the Assertive Close.


6) Objections: This module introduces better responses for all of your late-call objections. Whether price, competition or procrastination, Sales Mastery has professional, empathetic responses for all of them. They get results because many late call objections are still reflexive in nature and are easy to overcome.

Pricing

Delivery Price for Entire Workshop: $ 7,900.00 (plus travel)
Two or More Workshops Booked at Once: $ 6,900.00 per workshop
Course Purchase & Single Site License: $39,995.00*

* When you purchase the course, we customize all materials to your real world. Your instructors become certified and will be able to train SM as often as needed, with no additional fees to Florida Corporate Training Center required, ever. Please see What You Get When You Buy. For multiple centers, please ask us about our Global license.

Additional Benefits Of Sales Mastery Outbound

Call Flow-Based Training: When we work with a new client, we start by capturing the best dialogue and building it into a Call Flow. Not scripting, a Call Flow illustrates steps of the sales dialogue and examples of what to say. After finalizing the Call Flow, training is easy to modify. In the end, every topic covered in the training is intended to help participants master their new Call Flow.


Natural Dialogue: Participants learn to use their own natural dialogue when speaking to callers. While employing SM skills, it is this relaxed chat with callers that gives callers a sense of comfort and familiarity.   SM Skills are Easy to Learn and Quick to Implement: These skills work because they are all easy to learn and very quick to deliver. Most take under 15 seconds. This is vital on the phone because callers have an internal clock, reminding them not to stay on the phone too long with “sales people.”


Effective Role-Play Makes Perfect: Sales Mastery Outbound, like all FCT courses, is role-play intensive. Participants spend a great deal of time in each module practicing the key skill set. This means your sales people will hit the phones ready to implement the new skills.


Final Major Role-Play: The final role-play combines all major SM skills so your sales people are completely prepared for outbound calling before they leave the program.


 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Directed Dialogue:" The Secret to TSM's Success

Every training program includes similar topics to Telephone Sales Mastery.  TSM is quite different, however, due to its "directional" style of communication, or Directed Dialogue.  Telephone associates use Directed Dialogue to control the conversation (even though it sounds like a casual chat to the caller).  Every question is intentional and already has in mind a product or feature when asked.  Every Feature/Value Driver description ends with a Strong Confirm, such as, "Can you see how this will eliminate that wasted time and frustration?"  (This forces the caller to comment on the Value of the offer, rather than a Weak Confirm, like, "How does that sound?")  Every step of every skill is intentional, keeping Call Control with the associate and creating a more useful call, every time.  

Directed Dialogue is built into everything we offer, from our sales and service skills to our floor-coaching.  After all, if your dialogue is not intentional, you never know where it is going to lead!

  

Cross-Selling and Up-Selling Made Easy!

  

Most service and sales associates don't like to make cross-sell or up-sell suggestions.  They feel like it is done only for their own organization and the customer somehow loses, or gets ripped off in the process.  TSM is all about Value.  Participants learn that cross-selling and up-selling attemps are often the reasons why callers will end up buying from us instead of some other supplier.

All TSM programs illustrate cross-selling and up-selling techniques in every module.

6 Quick Facts About Telephone Sales Mastery

  • TSM is a core set of telephone selling skills, which is completely customized to each center's individual needs and specific Call Types.

 

  • There is no sense in buying courseware that applies on only 30% or 40% of your calls!

 

  • We begin with a complete analysis of your current call flows (typical dialogues) and help you revise them with TSM skills. From there, we build your specific TSM program.

 

  • Since every type of center is different, TSM offers versions for Service-to-Sales, Inbound Sales, Standard Telemarketing, Outbound After-Market Selling, Retention (Saving Cancel Requests) and Large Account Sales.  Most clients with multiple centers end up with multiple versions.

 

  • Once we learn more about your specific center, we can introduce the best TSM version for you.

 

  • TSM skills have been proven effective for clients like Hewlett Packard, BellSouth, Bank of America, DHL, Esurance, Sprint, Adobe Software, Wachovia and many others.

Telephone Sales Mastery: Module By Module Overview

Each module includes instruction, discussions, examples, trainer demonstrations, team activities and lots of role-playing to make sure your telephone professionals can use their new skills immediately.

Below is an overview of the course content. The first five modules are standard for all TSM programs.  The addiitonal modules are available for traditional Outbound telemarketing centers, After-Market selling and Large Account sales by phone.

Module 1: Overview of Telephone Sales Mastery

The course begins with an overview of all the key program features, an introduction to your new Call Flow(s), and a series of sections that reframe selling as being in the best interest of the caller . After all, if a customer needed a product to solve a problem, and you offer that product, but failed to mention it, all you did was provide lousy customer service! And they may end up moving to a new supplier to buy the same product.

Module 2: Needs Analysis

This powerful module shows sales associates how to use questions in a whole new way. Most training programs still prefer Open-Ended questions as the primary tool for uncovering customer needs. Unfortunately, multiple Open probes end up boring the caller or confusing the sales associate (not to mention what they do to handle times).

TSM is radically different. We train best practices for Open probes, but TSM focuses on "Needs-Based Closed Probes" - a new use of Closed-Ended questioning - to establish needs quickly. Using Needs-Based Probes, a sales associate can identify two or three needs and/or issues in as little as 15-20 seconds! How's that for getting a customer to buy in quickly.

Module 3: Presenting Your Solution

All training programs introduce the concept of Features and Benefits. TSM takes your product presentations to a new level. Using the Feature Function Value Statement, associates present product descriptions that come to life .

Buyers will be more jazzed about your product than the other supplier's because they will see how your product solves their problems and makes things more convenient for them (saves them money, gives more security, tastes better, is safer around their children, etc.). The secret to this skill is the Function element, a statement that offers the caller an example of the product in use in their real world.

Where appropriate, this module also introduces techniques for presenting to multiple buyers or for presenting multiple products and solutions to a single buyer.

Module 4: Assertive Closing
The Assertive Closing module shows participants how to remain confident when closing and to close more simply, focusing on how easy it is for callers to get their hands on the product. The module includes Ineffective Closing, Pre-Close Enhancers and loads of examples of Assertive Closes.
Module 5: Objections

Participants learn the Value For Objections process, a method of "refocusing on the value of the offer," rather than "out-arguing the caller." More associates will try this process because it remains customer-friendly. 

The Objections module includes a variety of additional Objection responses for different types of objections, including price objections, buyer-specific objections (e.g. "Have to talk to my husband"), competition-oriented objections (e.g. "I spoke with ABC, who said that they will...") and others.

Additional Modules for Outbound and After-Market Selling
We offer several versions of TSM for Outbound centers.  In addition to the modules above, Outbound versions of TSM have the following modules available.

  • Peaking Buyer Interest: Your First 20 Seconds of the Call.
  • Reflexive Objections: Handling Those Initial "Knee-Jerk" Objections.
  • Presenting an After-Market Offer Quickly and Effectively.
  • Appointment-Setting Skills.

Additional Modules for Large Account Sales
Do your call center associates speak to the same large accounts every week?  If so, FCTC has developed a version of Telephone Sales Mastery for you.  Large Account selling is different because you are no longer in a transactional world.  Sales people must be proficient at finding new opoprtunties where their current buyers are saying they do not exist.  They must broaden their contact base and increase their leverage within each account to be successful.

 

TSM's Large Account Selling includes the following modules.

 

  • The Five Buyer Types.
  • Gaining More Access to New Buyers (Without Ruffling any Feathers!).
  • Understanding Business Channels and Uncovering New Opportunities.
  • Large Account Questioning Techniques.
  • Conducting an Effective Telephone Meeting.
  • Closing Skills for Large Accounts.

Pricing:

Delivery Price for Entire Workshop: (approximately 2-2.5 days) $  7,950.00 (12 participant maximum)
Two or More Workshops Booked at Once: $  6,500.00
One-Day, "Test It Out" Demo: (Pick Any Three DS Topics) $  1,450.00

Single-Site License: (Own Directional Selling at One Site)

This is the best value in the business.  FCTC will build a completely customized version of TSM for your call center.  The license gives you complete ownership with no strings attached.  You recieved loads of support materials, customized instructors' manuals, multiple forms of media and a four-day instructor certification/training pilot.

There are no additional fees or yearly renewal fees.

$39,995.00
Individual Licenses for Additional Centers $20,000.00
* Please see What You Get When You Buy  

Telephone Sales Mastery will improve or eliminate the following issues:

Sales results are not meeting or exceeding targeted levels.
Your center(s) don't promote and manage to a series of selling "best practices."
Your telephone associates don't know how to or don't like to cross-sell or up-sell.
Sales associates struggle when trying to transition from service to sales.
Average offer rates are much too low.
Telephone associates don't believe that they should be trying to sell the caller anything that he/she didn't call in to inquire about.
Call lengths are too high due to sales associates taking too long to explain product offers.
Sales associates are not clear, succinct and value-rich when making product offers.
Sales associates are timid when attempting to close.
Sales associates have difficulty with caller objections, often not even attempting to handle them before disconnecting with the caller.
Supervisors do not spend enough time on the floor coaching sales associates.

Additional Benefits of Telephone Sales Mastery

Natural Dialogue:
Participants learn to use their own natural dialogue when speaking to callers. While employing TSM skills, it is this relaxed chat with callers - never slang or loose talk - that gives callers a sense of comfort and familiarity.
TSM Skills are Easy to Learn and Quick to Implement:
These skills work because they are all easy to learn and very quick to deliver. Most take under 15 seconds. This is vital on the phone because callers have an internal clock reminding them not to stay on the phone too long with sales people.
Average Call Handle Times Usually Decrease:
Because of the quick nature of each individual skill, average call handle times tend to drop in almost every case. This makes TSM an easier "sell" to upper management.
Skills Were All Designed in the Call Center World:
TSM is the opposite of "consultative selling." Sales people don't try to open long, exploratory conversations because callers simply won't play along. Skills like Needs-Based Probing and Assertive Closing are intended specifically for the telephone sales world.
Practice Truly Makes Perfect:
TSM, like all FCTC courses, is role-play intensive. Participants spend a great deal of time in each module practicing the key skill set. This means your sales people will hit the phones ready to implement the new skills.
TSM Skills are Easy to Observe and Coach:
In every module there is one or two critical processes, or skill sets. Each one is a two to four-step process. Because they are so organized, it is easy for coaches and quality assurance personnel to listen for them and effectively coach sales people.

Additional Information about Telephone Sales Mastery

Number of Participants:
We stress a maximum of twelve participants. This allows for the greatest interaction and practice for each participant. We can add more participants, but the quality of the interaction and the degree of learning will decrease.
Interactive Nature of the Training:
Long, tedious lectures bore us, too. All FCTC training workshops are interactive, keeping participants involved and learning throughout the session. We accomplish this by using both discussion questions and quick questions that keep the training moving. The facilitation never turns into runaway, time-robbing discussions, and everyone stays focused.
"No-Strings" License:
We can deliver Directional Selling with FCTC instructors, or you can purchase the course license and have unlimited use of Telephone Sales Mastery. We offer a thorough, four-day instructor certification as well as extensive support materials. These include a wide variety of media, handouts, participant guides and the very best facilitator guide available. You also receive a CD ROM with every file included so you can print additional materials for all your future training courses. We have created everything in PowerPoint so your trainers do not have to learn additional desktop publishing software like PageMaker or Quark Express. Once you purchase the license you don't pay FCTC even a penny more for the use of the course, ever.
Travel Expenses Extra:
Travel expenses for FCTC instructors or certifiers are extra and will be billed after the event is complete. We follow your per-day expense guidelines as well.

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