Consulting Foundations: Building Your Sales System

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Free Online Course: Consulting Foundations: Building Your Sales System provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 1-2 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Consulting Foundations: Building Your Sales System is taught by Meridith Powell.

Overview
  • Learn how to design and implement a strong sales system that helps you grow your consulting practice.

    One of the most challenging parts of being a consultant is you're in business for yourself. So, when it comes to making sales, you're in the driver's seat. That's why you need a sales system that's easy to implement, and more importantly, one that will help you use your natural consulting talents to fill your sales funnel.

    In this course, sales strategist and instructor Meridith Elliott Powell spells out how to create and implement a strong sales system that helps you grow your consulting practice. Discover how to design a sales conversation, create a compelling value proposition, identify and respond to objections, and more.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Are you helping or selling?
    1. The Value of a Sales System
    • The role of sales in consulting
    • What is an effective sales system?
    • What your customers are buying?
    • The most important sale is you
    2. Creating Your Sales System Foundation
    • Steps of a sales system
    • Creating your client avatar
    • Designing a sales conversation
    • The role of follow-up in closing sales
    3. The Keys to Making Sales
    • Putting your sales system into action
    • Qualifying prospects
    • Creating a value proposition
    • The hidden value of tracking
    4. Putting Your Sales System into Action
    • Finding your client avatar
    • Developing the right sales actions
    • Overcoming objections
    • Creating consistency and sustainability
    Conclusion
    • Next steps