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How Your First Meeting Repels Your Prospective Client

Iannarino

The Gist: The way to a second meeting is a valuable first meeting. A lot of legacy practices prevent second meetings. You never get a second chance to make a first impression, which means you have a lot riding on your meeting with a new client. How to Avoid a Second Meeting. Low-Value Conversations.

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Freeing Up “Time To Sell,” A Quandary

Partners in Excellence

Since the earliest days of selling, our vision is to free up sellers time to sell! There are some necessary things–training and development to improve our ability to sell. Certain internal meetings to keep us up to date with strategies, priorities, and what’s happening with the company.

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Freeing Up Time To Sell!

Partners in Excellence

I’m, more frequently, involved in discussions around “time available for selling.” We may spend a lot of time, internally, configuring and making sure we can support what we are selling. As more people are involved in selling complex solutions, we spend more time coordinating and planning with them.

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6 Reasons It’s So Hard to Sell Your Start-Up Stock as an Ex-Employee

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: I Have Some Shares in a Successful Start-Up I Worked At, But the Company Won’t Let Me Sell Them. And while it mainly impacts ex-employees, it also impacts angel and seed investors who are often blocked from selling as well. Why do scale-ups and startups do this? Why do scale-ups and startups do this?

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Meeting And Call Planning, Getting The Most Out Of Each Meeting

Partners in Excellence

I’ve been revisiting a lot of selling basics. We take for granted that people, us, understand the basic of selling. That we stop our mindless, unconscious execution of selling tasks. Today’s topic is on Meeting Planning. Think of internal meetings, how many are worth your time? What is a meeting?

Meeting 114
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How Citizens Bank transformed content to meet changing customer needs

Martech

Meeting customers where they are and supporting ‘feet on the street’ Lori Dillion serves as head of enterprise marketing at Citizens Bank, with 30 years of experience at the company. “Now, Citizens Bank teamed up with Derek Hough (of “Dancing with the Stars” fame) to create the #DitchYourWalletDuet challenge. million views. “We

Meeting 102
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Want Productive Sales Meetings? Set Expectations

criteria for success

As a sales leader, you’ve had your fair share of sales meetings. Think of how much easier sales meetings would be if all parties involved knew exactly what everyone was expecting to gain from them. But how do you set expectations for sales meetings? And why will it make your sales meetings more productive ? Download Now.

Meeting 97