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4 Cold Calling Tips for Making a Good First Impression

Veloxy

Why do you need a first impression for cold calling ? Rather, let the results, numbers, and value do what most mere names cannot—close the deal! All you need to do is memorize the steps in your powerful mind, and pair it with your solution’s winning numbers and your prospect’s relevant data. Start with basic results.

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Prioritizing Sales Tasks In Order of Importance

Iannarino

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. For a host of reasons, many professional salespeople mistakenly violate this order, as do their sales managers and leaders. In Order of Unimportance.

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7 Variables to Transforming Yourself for a Competitive Advantage

Iannarino

When something works for a long time, it’s difficult to consider doing something different. Human beings learn much by doing, but only when they can distinguish between options and understand how, when, and why something works. To transfer your knowledge to another person, you have to know it yourself.

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Whatever It Takes In Sales

Iannarino

The Gist: Advice to “do whatever it takes to win the deal” is presented without the necessary guardrails. When what you’re doing isn’t working, you need to change your approach. Do all the things that are necessary for you to succeed, without violating your values. Invest More in Personal Development.

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How Your Email Campaigns Harm Your Results

Iannarino

In fact, now that we have reached “peak email,” every additional unsolicited email is more likely to do harm than good. The Gist: We have reached peak email prospecting, the point when its effectiveness begins an inevitable decline. Two emails aren’t better than one, and any more than two undermines your goals. Then listen up.

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How to Avoid Spamming Someone on a Cold Call

Iannarino

” My attempts always fail, but I do enjoy causing them the pain of recognizing their own thievery. Weinberg’s point, as I take it, is that is difficult to spam people on the telephone, which is not to say that a salesperson with a poor strategy isn’t capable of doing so. She must be so disappointed.” Step Three.

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What It Means When You Trash Your Competition

Iannarino

You best approach to differentiating yourself from your competition is enriching the sales conversation. the prospective client) what my existing partner was doing for me, and whether or not I was happy with their program and their support. The more mature your contact, the more you’ll alienate them by focusing on your competitor.

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