Sales workshop - Ready Steady Grow

Join us for a two-hour intensive workshop designed to unleash your selling power and help propel your business to success. This high-impact session will be dedicated to three key areas: sales mindset, sales communication, and sales conversion.

In the sales mindset segment, you will delve into the psychology of sales success and cultivate a winning mindset. Discover powerful techniques to overcome self-limiting beliefs, develop resilience, and maintain motivation in the face of challenges. Gain the mental clarity and confidence needed to excel in sales.

Next, in the sales communication segment, you will learn how to craft compelling sales pitches, deliver engaging presentations, and effectively influence potential customers. Acquire essential communication skills to establish rapport, handle objections, and build trust, enabling you to connect authentically with prospects.

Finally, you will uncover the strategies and tactics necessary to close deals and achieve remarkable sales conversions in the sales conversion segment. Explore proven techniques to navigate the sales process, overcome objections, and create win-win outcomes. Gain insights into effective negotiation strategies and techniques to maximise sales opportunities.

This workshop will provide practical tools, actionable insights, and hands-on exercises in these three core areas. By the end of the session, you will have the knowledge and skills to build your confidence in your sales performance and to help you drive business results.

About our Expert in Residence - Lisa Yelland

Lisa is an accomplished sales professional with a successful 30-year career and numerous European awards and recognitions. She gained expertise in the commercial sector before venturing into the online world and establishing her own sales consultancy. She now empowers other business owners to be able to take aligned sales action to build, grow and scale their business.

In advance of the meeting we will send out a brief questionnaire so that you can tell us some background information on your business idea, to help us tailor the session and to confirm your business details or pre-start plans.

All of our support is fully funded and is therefore free to access.

It is a requirement of our funding body that we record every organised interaction with pre-start and start-up businesses at BIPC Bristol. Please therefore take a few moments to provide us with the relevant information needed so we may provide our service.

Ready steady grow supports businesses in the early stages of development. It offers a practical toolkit for start-ups with help on fundamental business needs.

Starting a business requires dedication, hard work and perseverance. It also involves learning and developing a myriad of new skills and understanding. This programme of interactive 2 hr workshops will focus on building up a range of skills over a number of core business needs including:

• Business essentials for pre-starts, planning, IP & research

• Marketing

• Accts/bookkeeping

• Sales

• Start-up sustainably

• AI

• Email marketing
• shops will run on a regular basis throughout the year. In addition. we will supplement these core areas with a range of additional stimulating 1-1s and workshop sessions covering other areas like recruitment, branding, website design and build, planning and even business coaching These will change over time with new ones being added. Keep an eye on our Eventbrite page or sign up to our newsletter to stay connected.

About BIPC Bristol

At BIPC Bristol we help and support aspiring entrepreneurs, start-ups and small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) across Bristol and the surrounding area. We offer a range of business services across four main themes:

• Intellectual Property guidance, help and legal advice
• free access to business intelligence resources and databases including market research, grants, company data and reports
• one-to-one sessions with advisors and experts, workshops and networking events
• spaces to meet, study and research your business planning

The Business & IP Centre Bristol supports people to start, protect and grow their businesses. Visit Bristol Central Library to access our free market research and intellectual property databases and take part in our regular programme of workshops and events.

BIPC Bristol is part of Bristol Libraries and the BIPC National Network.

Provided by BIPC Bristol

This course is provided by BIPC Bristol and is free of charge for residents and businesses based in Bristol and the surrounding area.

This workshop will be held face to face in Bristol Central Library public meeting room. Numbers will be strictly limited. We anticipate that the course will be oversubscribed and that there will be a wait list. If you book and later find you cannot attend please advise us ASAP so that someone else can benefit from your place. Please register at the BIPC desk on the ground floor next to the café.

Tea and coffee will be provided, alternatively there is a café on site.

FAQs

What is your refund policy?

Our events are free, but places are limited and events are usually oversubscribed. Please give two working days’ notice via email if you wish to cancel.

Can I attend if I'm not a member of the library?

Absolutely! Any Bristol and surrounding area based business or person with a business idea is welcome. Though we always recommend joining the library as it's free and will make accessing our databases, books and publications much easier.

How can I find out about any news & upcoming events?

Follow us on Eventbrite and you can also follow us on Twitter and Instagram for the latest news and events. For more information on BIPC Bristol check out our web pages: https://www.bristol.gov.uk/BIPC

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