The 7 Steps of an Effective Sales Call: An F.M.C.G. Salesman’S Bible
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But if you want proven strategies from a humble, simple salesperson who worked his way up the ranks, then youve struck gold.
Rajul Chaturvedi, a veteran salesman who has worked at some of the worlds most respected companies, including Gillette, Duracell, Henkel, and United Biscuit, walks you through the seven key components of sales calls: planning and preparation, observation, introduction, opening the call, presentation, objection handling, and closing the call.
Drawing on his own experiences from thousands of sales calls, he shares simple steps to achieve success, including calling when you say you will, sticking to deadlines, and following a routine. He also outlines how salespeople are often the biggest barrier to their own success.
Every word and action you take during a sales call leads to reactions and objections, and its imperative to take a structured, layered approach so you can maintain control over conversations and steer clear of problem areas.
Boost your confidence and generate results with the lessons in The Seven Steps of an Effective Sales Call.
Rajul Chaturvedi
Rajul Chaturvedi lost his father at an early age. He fought his way up the corporate ladder without a formal management degree and worked more than twenty-five years with Fortune 100 organizations, including Gillette, Duracell, Henkel, and United Biscuits before founding his own consultancy firm. He lives in New Delhi, India, with his wife, two daughters, and mother.
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The 7 Steps of an Effective Sales Call - Rajul Chaturvedi
Copyright © 2017 by Rajul Chaturvedi.
ISBN: Hardcover 978-1-5437-0004-6
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Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 - Develop Your Personality
Chapter 2 - Traits of Successful Sales People
Chapter 3 - Types of a Call
Chapter 4 - Customers are People
Chapter 5 - Sales call - Why is a Structure Important
Chapter 6 - The Seven Steps of an Effective
Sales Call
Chapter 7 - The Eighth Unofficial Step, Merchandising
Chapter 8 - The Training Perspective
Chapter 9 - Knowing your Channel & Partners
Chapter 10 - Way Up the Ladder
Chapter 11 - The Conclusion
Preface
41875.jpgAll successful sales people do many right things that need to be done during a sales call but if they do it knowingly & in the right sequence, they can be much more effective
45206.jpgWe live in a changed world today and lot of things in a sales environment have changed drastically in the past some years. Technology is slowly taking over, processes have changed & ways to do business are changing. What has still not changed is the large traditional brick & mortar or mom and pop retail store landscape & ever increasing number of traditional trade outlets and a vast majority of them in the developing countries & fast growing economies like India & China. On the other hand E commerce is making rapid inroads and sales is going quite technical with palm tops and hand held devices. I believe they are still far from denting the mom & pop stores to a serious level. Most things today in business can be automated and handled via technology, but sales is one of those things that still requires real people & people skills, hence i believe that the old fashioned sales call is still quite in relevance.
44529.jpgSales is like eating food, one cannot live without eating but the dishes can change with time
45208.jpgStarting ‘Right’
During my early sales days i was quite sceptical about some concepts of selling & i thought that selling was an art. Time passed by and i realized that it was quite like a science which was to be learned, understood and practiced. There were no formal institutes or training centres for salesmen when i started working in India in the late 80’s but I thank my stars for being able to start with an organization which was an institution in itself specially for the salesmen. I do not know where i would have been in life without learning the kind of sales basics & selling skills i learnt there. The organization not only showed me the right way but also made me realize that if i get the basic concepts right and structural efficiencies in place, it all works like a well lubricated machinery. I was sceptical about many concepts that were taught in theory but just implemented them sincerely without questioning any and believe me they worked like magic in the field. I saw the power of the structured call made in the way they taught me, i was not only respected in the market then but till today retailers and people remember me and my visits. The various techniques when applied made the retailer dance to my tunes. My first company Gillette® truly believed in investing in training its people hard and that paid immensely to them as well as the employees.
I have worked with some of the best companies in the world (Gillette®, Duracell®, Henkel & United biscuits), some amazing people & great environments and have always felt that the right start with the right platform is so very important for anyone. I was a small town boy in the world of top class professionals and was armed just with my never say die attitude, immense confidence and the determination to reach somewhere. I had no formal or professional degree in management or sales and when i started i just had one thought in my mind ‘How can i be the best sales guy amongst all’.
Coming from a small town in the state of western Uttar Pradesh (Saharanpur) in India and straight into the cut throat corporate metropolitan hustle bustle of Delhi, I was clueless on how to start and where to start and how to adjust to the pace. I am grateful to some of the amazing managers that i worked under specially to start with Joginder Pal Singh an extremely simple and straightforward sales person i met during my initial days of coming to terms with a sales career, who taught me the baby steps & then the stylish and genius Ranu Kawatra, FMS Delhi (Cadbury’s, Gillette®, Duracell®, Pearson) & not to forget ‘the boss’, the firebrand, flamboyant & dashing Pradeep pant from Jamnalal Bajaj (Nestle, Gillette®, Fonterra, Mondelez) to mention the most as, they were such an influence, personally & professionally and have played a crucial role in making a difference to my career and personality.
All that i was armed with in the name of skills when i arrived in the big metropolitan capital of India, was my extremely positive attitude, willingness to learn, indulge and adopt to anything that could make me successful. I was always able to get along and maintain a good relationship with almost everyone in any team i worked with and specially with some of the big name in the industry, just because of these simple traits that i had. Be it language, words, mannerisms, traits or skills i made it a point to learn & practice every bit i could. I believe that most of my managers first liked me more for my ‘amazing’ positive attitude, great energy and never say die attitude. I am sure that none of the people who have worked with me would have ever seen my face without a smile or me low on energy, they used to ask me how do i keep myself so full of energy and smiling all the time. I never ever said no to any task given to me even if i didn’t know how to do it. I always felt that let’s take this up as a challenge and find a way to do it rather than refuse for the fear of failing or not knowing. I was always sure that i will be able to do it and did it successfully most of the times. The other big thing was that i was able to learn more new things than people who refused to take new challenges or go out of their comfort zone to do anything.
Importance of basics
Having been an integral part of some of the best companies & best brands launched into India, i have realized that they too have learnt the hard way. However great people you have, however big brands you have, whatever big investment you put in, still nothing might help if the basics are not in place. You still have to go thru the rigmarole of creating a robust infrastructure of reaching the humongous millions of outlets all over the world, along with addressing the complexities of territories, states, cities, towns, villages, languages, cultures & above all people. People were and are still the single most important factor and the human touch and relations form the core of it.
Another important factor, the biggest marketing guru’s & companies have paid heavily by being ignorant of the frontline or being obsessed with the brand, investment, size or momentum or have forgot the human angle. They have ignored the basics leading to creating unforeseen weak links, the infrastructure cracking under pressure and ultimately end up paid a heavy price many a times. They may blame all failures on different marketing strategies making elaborate & fancy presentations but the fact also may be that they have failed to connect with their own sales force to make it successful. I have seen many great marketing plans fail and then sales pulling them thru with their sheer skills to handle the trade and people, such is the power.
It’s all about people, Trained & Skilful one’s
So why is training the sales force so important? or is it important at all. As mentioned already that in spite of having world class brands, great systems, great management team, great marketing team if you don’t have a well trained frontline sales team, you might find it harder to succeed. The