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How to Make Your First Impression Impressive

Iannarino

Outdated approaches to sales, especially during first meetings, all but ensure a bad first impression. The key to a good first impression is the ability to create value for your client. Success in a first meeting all but ensures a second one. The Gist: You never get a second chance to make a first impression.

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The Only Two OKRs for Sales

Iannarino

But even if you don’t, take some time to read Measure What Matters by John Doerr, who Grove forced into sales. But even if you don’t, take some time to read Measure What Matters by John Doerr, who Grove forced into sales. Key Result Five: The total potential revenue from all new opportunities.

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Few Want to Go Into Sales

Iannarino

The Gist: The decades-old stereotype of a high-pressure salesperson is no longer accurate. While some sales organizations still use legacy approaches, none of them are based on high-pressure sales. The greater pressure is internal, the result of a role that provides more autonomy and more responsibility for individual results.

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A Serious Misunderstanding of the Word Consultative

Iannarino

He ended his comment with this valid point: “Value is not simply information.”. Because they know the value is not in the knowledge. The Gist: Too many salespeople still believe that consultative selling means asking the client about their pain. They may also need to hire people. This view has some more serious problems.

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How to generate SEO content ideas with the Value Proposition Canvas

Search Engine Land

The Value Proposition Canvas is a tool designed to help businesses create value for their customers. However, I have found the framework incredibly useful for content ideation, with customer fit and value at the heart of the process (as it should be). It’s covered extensively in Strategyzer’s book “The Value Proposition Design.”

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13 questions to diagnose and resolve declining organic traffic

Search Engine Land

Together, they make up the framework for a methodical analysis that covers all your bases and uncovers all the issues. They are, after all, different metrics measured by different tools, using different methodologies!) Mind all four primary metrics – clicks, impressions, CTR and average position – for each of the views below.

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Information gain: Here’s what this new SEO ‘buzzword’ really means

Search Engine Land

And like all new buzzwords, SEOs are throwing it around like we’ve just discovered fire. Why information foraging matters for SEO Recently, Google started discussing information foraging theory in their decoding decisions report (the messy middle). The new buzzword in SEO is information gain. But there’s a massive problem.