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How to Prepare for a Client Conversation

Iannarino

The Gist: Preparation can improve your ability to deal with client conversations, especially difficult ones. It is critical that you know your desired outcomes, as well as what your client needs from you. I almost called this post “How to Have a Difficult Conversation with Your Client.”

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Why Your Next Lead Is No Better Than the Last

Iannarino

It is a mistake to believe that recent means better when all leads share common traits, one being helping clients on their buyer’s journey. In sales, recency bias often influences how we evaluate leads. But in reality, you cannot determine how compelled any prospective client is to change at any time without speaking to them.

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The Source of the Problem is the Problem

Iannarino

The Gist: Most discovery is too shallow to create much value for your prospective clients. Identifying a prospective client’s problem is a tried and true approach, the core of legacy solution selling. But articulating a problem is only the first step: your client isn’t going to change if they are not compelled to do so.

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Cold Calling: Everything a Salesperson Needs to Know

Veloxy

What they need is someone who understands the complexity of a sales call, what needs to be said, and how to say it. Today, it’s more than knowing exactly how a product or service can help a customer’s business flourish. This is the golden key to cold calling! And share it with your sales colleagues. Table of Contents.

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

Partners in Excellence

What we do, why we do it, who it’s for… The reality is few training programs address these things well, focusing instead on how we do these things. That we actually start thinking about what we are doing, that we go back to basics of how we and our customers can accomplish more. And we can see the results of this!

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Do Your Sellers Know How To Converse With Your Customers?

Partners in Excellence

I can’t “talk to” my clients in China, Korea, Japan, or Southeast Asia. This inability to talk to these clients can be crippling. Even though, there is someone translating, it’s really difficult to really understand and connect with them. They are doing interesting things with Business/Financial Acumen.

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Sales velocity – a guide to what it is and how to calculate it, with formula and examples

PandaDoc

It presents a snapshot of how your entire sales process is performing. It gives a summary of how healthy your sales pipeline is over time. The higher the conversion rate, the higher the sales velocity. Win rate paints a picture of how well the sales team is performing. What is sales velocity?