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7 Variables to Transforming Yourself for a Competitive Advantage

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The Gist: In a world of constant, accelerating, disruptive change, agility is a competitive advantage. Most people fail to complete the journey, even when they want or need to change. Most people fail to complete the journey, even when they want or need to change. Without changing your beliefs, transformation is impossible.

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How to Time Your Value Creation

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The Gist: It is critically important to guide your clients through the conversations necessary to improving their results. It’s also important that you have the right conversations at the right time. Time each conversation based on its ability to create value for decision-makers and your other contacts. Other conversations are more valuable later.

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First You Create Value

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Your intentions can spoil the outcomes you hope for by preventing the conversation from being valuable to your contacts. Slow is fast and fast is slow when it comes to the outcomes you are pursuing in sales. The Gist: Your clients measure your performance by the value of the conversations they have with you. Too Little Value.

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How You Are Enabling Sales Prevention

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When these practices cause a negative outcome, we can classify them as “sales prevention” practices, things that decrease the odds of creating or winning an opportunity to help your prospective client improve their results. The Gist: Some current sales practices actually prevent deals. Master Cold Calling with this FREE eBook.

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Conversation Beats Automation

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Use automation only when your outcome doesn’t require creating value. The extra time and attention you invest won’t change the outcome for you or for the company you are paying. The Gist: Conversations are better than automation. It is a mistake to believe more is better than better. Turning Automation Upside-Down.

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Legacy Approach vs Modern Sales Conversation Structures

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Not everything has changed in a modern approach, the sequence of specific conversations follows a different pattern. The Gist: The legacy approaches to the sales conversation have created a form of commoditization. In these approaches, conversation order is a well-worn path that prevents differentiation. Rapport-Building. Our Clients.

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Prioritizing Sales Tasks In Order of Importance

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Build your sales workday around the outcomes you need to create, working in the order that enables the next outcome. The Gist: We want to win deals, but we can’t do that without first creating them. There are (still) only two things we do in sales: we create opportunities and we pursue them. In Order of Unimportance. Existing Deals.

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