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What Your Client Should Expect from You

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The Gist: Your clients have expectations for how you use the time they give you. It is important to give them what they need in order to move forward in the conversation. Low win rates, missed goals, and a host of other trends likewise suggest that salespeople are not serving their clients well enough.

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The Unrecognized Benefits of Cold Calling

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There is a bottomless pit of people, especially on social media, who will tell you why you should not make cold calls. You know these people are not serious when it comes to sales because the replacements they recommend all share the potential pitfalls of the cold call, but lack any of the benefits.

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How to Make Your First Impression Impressive

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The Gist: You never get a second chance to make a first impression. The key to a good first impression is the ability to create value for your client. You’ve been pursuing your dream client for months and have finally convinced them to meet with you. What Is Your Agenda?

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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.

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Why Your Next Lead Is No Better Than the Last

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Recency bias will cause you to believe that a new lead will be easier to convert, even though this isn’t true. 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. Why You Want to Believe a New Lead Is Better.

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Why a Fear of Cold Calling is Destroying the Latest Sales Generation

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The Gist: Salespeople are being taught to fear cold calling by people who should know better. He argued (and I agree) that the phone should start your sequence. The reason is simple and straightforward: if the person who answers your call agrees to a meeting, you no longer need a sequence.

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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. Failing to put tasks in the right order often leaves you off track or even unable to reach your goals. One way to get the order of importance wrong is to start the day by opening your email.

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