If this weren't the case, it would be much cheaper for our corporations to just hire order takers or setup e-commerce websites to let people buy everything unassisted.

We often find ourselves in sales situations involving serious competition. To win the most business you are capable of in a competitive marketplace, you must know the right sales tactics to use at the right time.

So what do you do? Engage when you have clear superiority.

Sounds simple, but a lot of people ignore this one. When pursuing customers, you want to engage your competition only when you have the superior solution to win the battle with. Do this right, and you'll win most of your sales. And if everyone did this, there would be few or no fights.

However, not everyone does this.

And when they do, many do it poorly.

Sales Tactic #1
Know Your Enemy Better Than He Knows Himself

Most salespeople know something about their competition. The top few know their competitors as well or better than they know themselves. These top salespeople know the following important things about their competitors:

• Their product & company strengths.
• Their product & company weaknesses.
• Which buyers they are likely to win with.
• Which buyers they are vulnerable to lose with.
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  If this weren't the case, it would be much cheaper for our corporations to just hire order takers or setup e-commerce websites to let people buy everything unassisted.

  We often find ourselves in sales situations involving serious competition. To win the most business you are capable of in a competitive marketplace, you must know the right sales tactics to use at the right time.

  So what do you do? Engage when you have clear superiority.

  Sounds simple, but a lot of people ignore this one. When pursuing customers, you want to engage your competition only when you have the superior solution to win the battle with. Do this right, and you'll win most of your sales. And if everyone did this, there would be few or no fights.

  However, not everyone does this.

  And when they do, many do it poorly.

  Sales Tactic #1
  Know Your Enemy Better Than He Knows Himself

  Most salespeople know something about their competition. The top few know their competitors as well or better than they know themselves. These top salespeople know the following important things about their competitors:

  • Their product & company strengths.
  • Their product & company weaknesses.
  • Which buyers they are likely to win with.
  • Which buyers they are vulnerable to lose with.
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    So what do you do? Engage when you have clear superiority.

    Sounds simple, but a lot of people ignore this one. When pursuing customers, you want to engage your competition only when you have the superior solution to win the battle with. Do this right, and you'll win most of your sales. And if everyone did this, there would be few or no fights.

    However, not everyone does this.

    And when they do, many do it poorly.

    Sales Tactic #1
    Know Your Enemy Better Than He Knows Himself

    Most salespeople know something about their competition. The top few know their competitors as well or better than they know themselves. These top salespeople know the following important things about their competitors:

    • Their product & company strengths.
    • Their product & company weaknesses.
    • Which buyers they are likely to win with.
    • Which buyers they are vulnerable to lose with.
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      you'll win most of your sales. And if everyone did this, there would be few or no fights.

      However, not everyone does this.

      And when they do, many do it poorly.

      Sales Tactic #1
      Know Your Enemy Better Than He Knows Himself

      Most salespeople know something about their competition. The top few know their competitors as well or better than they know themselves. These top salespeople know the following important things about their competitors:

      • Their product & company strengths.
      • Their product & company weaknesses.
      • Which buyers they are likely to win with.
      • Which buyers they are vulnerable to lose with.
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        competitors as well or better than they know themselves. These top salespeople know the following important things about their competitors:
        • Their product & company strengths.
        • Their product & company weaknesses.
        • Which buyers they are likely to win with.
        • Which buyers they are vulnerable to lose with.
        • Who their flagship customers are.
        • Who their customers from hell are.
        • Sales tactics that they commonly use.

        When you know these things as new prospects come up, you'll be in position to quickly decide "should I pursue this piece of business?" Pursuing the right business and avoiding the wrong business is one of the simplest ways to be highly successful in sales. This is not always easy to do though because we often have pressures from our peers and those we work for to pursue any and every lead with pulse. Do what you know is right, and watch your close ratio increase.

        Oh, and how do you find these things out about your competiton? Spy on them. No, I don't mean break into their office in the middle of the night. Spying is easy with the internet and a telephone.

        Simply use the web (and other publicly available info sources such as an annual report) to find out the names of some of your competition's customers. Then call these companies up posing as someone who is looking to buy the same product as they bought. Since voicemail is common these days, you may need to setup an unlisted number at home with a voicemail that you can configure yourself to make your identity appear real.

        A few conversations held in this manner will yield 100 times the value of what you will ever learn from the tra