Would you get on an airplane if the pilot did not have an absolute plan as to how he was going to get you to your destination? Medical sales professionals, pharmaceutical sales executives, and others who sell in the life sciences industry too often “take-off” with just an idea as to where they want to go, and then try to figure out how to get there once they are already airborne. In this edition of the medical sales guru podcast, Mace Horoff talks about why this is a bad approach and how you should plan your “trip” before you ever get in front of a clinical customer.
What do you do when you’re selling to a customer or servicing a customer and things don’t go as planned? Do you just make it up as you go? How would you feel if you were getting on an airplane with a pilot who took the same approach…”well, if something goes wrong, we’ll just figure it out…” In this edition of the Medical Sales Guru Podcast, Mace Horoff discusses the essential requirement of being prepared for the what-ifs.
How do you feel about your competition? Love them or hate them, few things can drive you towards success in medical sales like your competition. In fact, you should give thanks for your competitors every day of your career. Does this sound crazy? Listen to this weeks Medical Sales Guru Podcast and you will learn to love your competition.
Sure, you need to be knowledgeable about your products and your industry, and you think your customers will be impressed when you show them how much you know! Not so fast…While you may wow some of the medical professionals you call on with your photographic recall of clinical data that you just gleaned from your company’s recent training or updates, others will find you annoying and may decide not to do business with you. In this edition of the Medical Sales Guru Podcast, Medical Sales speaker Mace Horoff relates an incident where he asked a surgeon a technical question and it created an adversarial situation. If you haven’t been selling in medicine for a long period of time, this is some advice you don’t want to miss!
Medical sales time management is one skill that can make or break your career. You see, it doesn’t matter how skilled you are in other areas of medical sales — if you can’t create the time to perform the most critical task — SELLING — you lose! Medical sales is fraught with more challenges to derail your day than most industries. In this Podcast, Mace discusses the common medical sales time management challenges, and what the medical sales professional must focus on to maximize sales and commission income.
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Dealing with pricing issues is one of the least welcome tasks for most medical sales professionals — and too many sales reps try to put it to rest by just bending over and offering the customer the lowest possible price! While this is impossible to cover in any depth in only ten minutes, Mace Horoff discusses some ideas on how to be prepared to deal with the pricing issues that medical sales professionals must deal with on a daily basis. Don’t ever think you’re prepared for a sales presentation unless you already have a strategy in mind on how to address pricing issues so that your product or service seems the better choice regardless of price.
Clear communications are essential in any environment. But in medicine, a message that is misunderstood can have dire consequences. Busy professionals often communicate quickly, and at times incompletely. In this episode of the Medical Sales Guru podcast, Mace Horoff discusses the pitfalls of communicating with healthcare professionals and how to avoid misunderstandings that can ruin your career or even land you in court.
Healthcare providers and institutions resist change — and for good reason. How do you uncover the best opportunities to discuss your medical product or service where your prospects and customers are most interested? In this edition of the Medical Sales Guru Podcast, Mace talks about how to find openings for meaningful sales calls.
Just about every sales representative who sells in the healthcare environment employs this sales tool. But too often it is misused in a way that actually works against the sale. In this edition of the Medical Sales Guru Podcast, Mace Horoff talks about avoiding the pitfalls of what seems like an intuitively sound practice.
How do you deliver value in medical sales? You might think you understand this intuitively, but unless you qualify or quantify value with respect to your customer’s needs and perceptions, you’re guessing at best and you risk losing the sale. In this edition of the Medical Sales Guru Podcast, Mace Horoff takes a look at defining value as it is most commonly assessed in the medical arena and suggests ways to incorporate value in your presentations.
