HTSS58 - Sales 911 how to beat a sales slump - Scott Sylvan Bell

<p style="text-align:center;">Sales 911 How to beat a sales slump</p> <p>At some point you will enter a sales slump. First and foremost you have to recognize you are in a slump. You don’t just have to recognize it you have to admit that you are in a sales slump. You don’t get extra points for trying to say you are not closing deals.</p> <p>Start here if you are in a sales slump</p> <p>Once you admit you are in a sales slump you will want to pause what you are doing. Look at your numbers and try to reverse engineer what happened in your life to start the problems. There are a few items that lead to sales slumps that are the most common.</p> <ul><li>A big check and bragging rights can lead to a sales slump</li> <li>A major change in your life</li> <li>A relationship where big fights have happened</li> <li>A death in the family</li> <li>The know time of a vacation</li> <li>The statistical average – this does not happen often</li> </ul> <p>How to pinpoint the cause of the beginning of a sales slump</p> <p>When you take the time to pinpoint where the problem came from you can get past the problems it has created. Most salespeople bump through a sales slump but do not know why they started so they happen again. This is a learning experience that you must go through as a salesperson.  </p> <p>There is no shame in asking for help when you are struggling. Asking for help does not make you weak it makes you smart.</p> <p>If there is a problem mentally pay for the help because either way you are going to pay. You will either pay for the help or lose the deals and lose the money.  </p> <p>Even closers hit sales slumps but they normally know why they went through the loss of deals. Closers know that they should get help and they ask for it. They have been in the game long enough and know most of the ways to deal with their problems. This does not mean why they why the problems started.</p> <p>If you are a new or newer salesperson you may not see all of the angles of where thr problems began. It’