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First You Create Value

Iannarino

Focusing on the conversations that your clients find most valuable for their goals is the key to creating a preference to buy from you. The first thing you need to do is to create value for your prospective client. The Lost Art of Closing shows you how to proactively lead your customer and close your sales. Too Little Value.

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How to run a successful site migration from start to finish

Search Engine Land

There’s much to keep track of, and you don’t want to lose any valuable possessions (or, in this case, SEO progress) along the way. A site migration with SEO built into it can preserve rankings, avoid traffic loss, retain link equity, improve user experience and uncover new opportunities to improve the site.

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How to Time Your Value Creation

Iannarino

Time each conversation based on its ability to create value for decision-makers and your other contacts. There are some conversations that create greater value for your clients earlier in the conversation. Several conversations are not effective in creating value for the decision-makers and decision-shapers early in the sales process.

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How to prevent AI from taking your content

Search Engine Land

Artificial intelligence offers exciting opportunities but also raises understandable concerns – including the potential for generative AI models to “take” or misuse content created by human writers and marketers. Someone could also prompt generative AI to create content in your style, as many tools allow people to do.

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How Google SGE will impact your traffic – and 3 SGE recovery case studies

Search Engine Land

Much has been written about Google Search Generative Experience (SGE), but the most important questions remains unanswered: If and when Google SGE goes live, how will it impact organic traffic? Will our traffic drop, and if so, by how much? Learn how the model works. See how to design an SGE recovery project.

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The Commoditization of the Discovery Call

Iannarino

You are not going to create a new opportunity if your prospect is not compelled to change. Like any outcome you pursue in sales, there is more than one way to get to your desired end state, but not every path creates the same value for your client. The Gist: Clients don’t change when they are not compelled to change.

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Few Want to Go Into Sales

Iannarino

After almost losing a large deal before I even sat down with the decision-maker, I abandoned the approach. During the first minutes of the first class, I asked each of the twenty-five or so students to write down a word that describes salespeople. None of them could cite anything other than buying a used car. High-Pressure Techniques.

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