CONSULTATIVE SELLING IS A NONMANIPULATIVE process that focuses on clearly defining a client’s needs and objectives and securing agreement that they should be addressed. In traditional selling, on the ...

In the business realm, the techniques and tactics used in corporate sales can have a substantial impact on a company's financial performance. As businesses progress and change, sales methods also need ...

The pressure to make sales can result in salespeople trying to push their way to closure. This can alienate potential customers and actually hurt sales. The consultative approach takes longer, but it ...

For a long time in some companies, the “sales shark” persona represented the ideal salesperson — that is, someone who can sniff out weaknesses and remain aggressive, selling the customer something ...

When I previously wrote about the 1,024 different types of salespeople, one of the variables I talked about was the difference between selling simple products vs. selling ones that are much more ...

Digital marketing has become more and more sophisticated in recent years. But for companies that still need the consumer to pick up the phone to complete a purchase — for example when taking out a ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. I’ve previously written about the 1,024 different types of salespeople there are and the difference between selling simple products vs.