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Trade Value, Not Intrigue: A Better Approach to Sales Competition

Iannarino

The Gist: Some salespeople try to acquire a meeting by mentioning their prospective client’s direct competiton. This approach is problematic because it implies that you’ll share confidential information that will somehow benefit your prospective client, making you untrustworthy.

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Everything Wrong with Prospecting

Iannarino

The Gist: We are increasingly choosing prospecting approaches that harm our professional relationships. We cannot continue to choose prospecting methods that destroy any possibility of a future relationship. My radar is fairly fine-tuned, so I can normally detect the “connect and pitch” variety of LinkedIn spammers.

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7 Habits of Highly Successful Prospectors, According to Sales Leaders

Hubspot

But as with any other skill, some salespeople have a better grip on prospecting than others — and we, here at the HubSpot Sales Blog, want to do our part to make sure you prospect as effectively as possible. That‘s why we connected with some sales leaders for their takes on habits the most successful prospectors exhibit.

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Everything Wrong with Prospecting

Iannarino

The Gist: We are increasingly choosing prospecting approaches that harm our professional relationships. We cannot continue to choose prospecting methods that destroy any possibility of a future relationship. My radar is fairly fine-tuned, so I can normally detect the “connect and pitch” variety of LinkedIn spammers.

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From Legacy to Modern Sales Approaches, The Sales Process | Part 10

Iannarino

The legacy approaches follow processes that were effective in the past, but they have been consistently losing their value for sales organizations and their clients. You need look no further than a sales organization’s concept of the sales process to understand what generation of sales approaches they are using.

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How to prevent AI from taking your content

Search Engine Land

Why do we care about AI taking our content? When we speak of AI “taking content,” we are actually discussing multiple distinct risks to us as individuals, the marketing campaigns that we run, and the work that we’ve created. What can AI take from your content? How can this happen?

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82 Open Ended Sales Questions (Ultimate Guide Included)

Veloxy

In this article, we’ll review the 12 types of open ended questions to ask, when to ask them, and other emerging best practices. Additionally, we’ll cover some of the common mistakes to avoid when asking open ended sales questions. What are open ended sales questions? What are open ended sales questions?