Home Improvement Sales Tips
The Real Reason You Can't Close Home Improvement Sales (It's Not Your Close)
Commission sales only pays for results. Are you doing in home sales like selling home improvements and consistently hearing and not being able to overcome things like we need time to think about it, we’re still just looking around, we want to see what else is out there and things like that? You keep working on your close but it’s not working. That may be because you are missing the biggest objection of all.
Asking for the Order in Home Improvement Sales
One of the most essential home improvement sales closing techniques you need to master in a one-call close, or in most sales situations, is how to confidently ask for the order.
Home Improvement Sales: They Said “Next Year” — I Closed Them
So you do in home sales like selling home improvements and when you walk in the home and the first thing you hear is “Well we aren’t planning on doing anything until next year or for a couple of years” and you think, another waste of time.
Work Harder on Yourself Than You Do on the Job to Win at Home Improvement Sales
One of the key qualities that all successful home improvement salespeople—and successful people in general—possess is a commitment to self-improvement. They are always striving to get better. Tony Robbins calls this CANI: Constant and Never-Ending Improvement. This concept, known as Kaizen in Japanese, is embraced by successful companies worldwide. By applying this approach, I’ve been able to make more money in home improvement sales, turning my journey from struggling to thriving. Self-improvement is truly the key to success.
How To Avoid Sticker Shock in Home Improvement Sales
The most important concept to understand when it comes to selling is that what the customer thinks something should cost is based on information they've gotten. In other words, prices are a perception created by information the customer's received.
Build Trust With Difficult Customers
When doing home improvement sales, it’s important to get enough trust and rapport to be able to sell a high-ticket item after talking to a total stranger for 2 hours. They believe you, they buy. They don’t believe you, they don’t buy. The quickest way to get this level of rapport is using the power of truth. We all know that selling is telling the truth in the best possible light. A good salesperson never lies; only the weak ones do. That’s not what I am talking about here. What I mean goes beyond you overstating the guarantees or the truth about what your product actually is or what it can do. What I am talking about is being truthful in your relationship with your customer.
Home Improvement Sales: How To Avoid and Fix a Sales Slump
Have you ever been or are you currently in a sales slump, doing in-home sales like selling home improvements? Here are four things you should be aware of to avoid getting in a slump, or what to do if you are already in one.
My Best One Call Close Secret
A one-call close is something that is an art and still done a lot today. A lot of people don’t like it, meaning either the salesperson (then you are in the wrong job) or the customer, because it conjures thoughts of the old-time siding salesperson or stereotyped used car salesperson – i.e., meaning just annoying high pressure with no integrity. It’s what the amateurs, or what I call the neanderthal type of salespeople, do when they try to one-call close. However, if it’s done right, it can be professional, have integrity, and be a pleasant experience for the customer.
Why You Get Resistance At The Door and How to Handle It
I always hear home improvement salespeople say that they never got in, and it was a bad lead. When does the lead start? It doesn’t start when you present. It actually starts when you get the lead from your company. Then you have to make it to the home, get there on time, and do your sales presentation. That’s all part of it. If you want me to be nice, then it starts when the door opens.
The Fastest Way To Make More Money Doing Home Improvement Sales
In every sales call, it’s very important that you are either making commission or paying tuition. If you don’t make a sale, obviously that’s bad for you and your company, but if you learn from it and get better, then it’s worth it. If you keep learning from your mistakes and get better and better, then eventually you will be forced to make the sale.
A Weak Commitment Is No Commitment
I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase telling is not selling. That’s because when you’re doing sales and especially home improvement sales, selling is asking questions. The most common type of questions in selling is what is known as tie downs or getting commitments from your customers.
How to Handle One-Leg Appointments in Home Improvement Sales
Want to know different strategies to deal with one legs when doing in home or home improvement sales? Then you're watching the right video. After being in over 16,000 homes I will share strategies that I use that have worked for me and others I’ve trained in the 35 years I have been in home improvement sales.
3 Simple Things That Help You Sell More
Here are 3 basic things that everyone who sells home improvement should be doing. Some may seem obvious but you would be surprised. I think that with all the emphasis on selling and closing skills people can sometimes forget how important these are.
How To Sell At Will
Want to make more money doing home improvement sales? The skill you want to be at the top of your game; translation becoming a millionaire in this business is to learn to sell at will. I used to think that some people buy and others won’t and it was a numbers game or like a sales lotto. Boy was I wrong. In this post, I’ll show you what I do that has helped me to learn to sell at will.
Home Improvement Sales: Stop Making This One Call Close Mistake
Are your turning objections that don’t really exist when doing home improvement sales? After being in this business for over 35 years one thing that I notice is that salespeople create more work than they have to when closing home improvement sales. They are the reasons sales closing is so hard. They are not the customer, which is the biggest obstacle to them making sales.
Are These 4 Beliefs Keeping You Broke in Home Improvement Sales?
I have been doing home improvement sales as a salesperson, sales manager, and trainer for 35 years and have been in over 16,000 homes. Here are four belief systems that I noticed salespeople have that keep them poor in this business. Or keep them in what I call the sucker trap.
Home Improvement Sales: How To Use Payments In A One Call Close
Explaining how much the monthly payment is when financing home improvement sales is no big deal. You look at the amount financed then use your chart or formula and voila here is the payment to tell your customer.
No Control = No Sale in Home Improvement Sales
Learning why and how to be in control is important if you want to have a successful career doing home improvement sales.
Sell By Not Selling
When you are doing home improvement sales quit going to the home trying to sell something. It is what’s making you not sell. Especially if what you do is a one call close.
New To Home Improvement Sales
I don’t think anybody growing up ever said I can’t wait to be a home improvement salesperson. I thought they would be in the NBA, a rock star, an internet guru maybe… but definitely not selling home improvements.