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A Short Success Plan for B2B Sales and Enterprise-Level Clients

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In an era dominated by digital screens, the profound advantage of investing time with your contacts cannot be overstated. Understand Client Needs : Beyond the surface, clients seek solutions, not just products. Schedule Regular Client Visits : Recently, one of my sales team members proposed visiting a prospect at their office.

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How Your First Meeting Repels Your Prospective Client

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The reason clients disengage is because the conversation isn’t one they find valuable. You never get a second chance to make a first impression, which means you have a lot riding on your meeting with a new client. Sometimes, I concluded, the Gods of Sales punish those who punish their clients. Low-Value Conversations.

Meeting 314
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One-Up Prospecting

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The One-Down salesperson uses an approach that causes their prospective client to recognize they aren't someone with the knowledge or experience to be a valuable partner. It also betrays the One-Down person's belief that they are going to fail to acquire the meeting they need.

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How Your Client Justifies Buying from You

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This post may be a bitter pill for those who believe their clients buy from them because they like their company, their products, or both. Even though these things are important, their value can only be recognized (not to mention realized) after the client signs a contract. You Make Sense of Their World.

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What Your Clients Can Teach You

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The Gist: In the past, salespeople had an advantage created by an information disparity: the salesperson had information unavailable to their client. We spend a lot of time helping our clients by teaching them how to produce the better decisions they need, closing the information disparity gap. What They Value. Their Industry.

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Everything Wrong with Prospecting

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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. While I was not in any way harmed, his attempts to cheat the Gods of Prospecting will only harm himself.

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How to Organize a Prospect List for Booking First Meetings

Iannarino

You always have open loops you need to close, like sending a new contact the case study they requested. Or perhaps you owe another client an edited contract for a new offering they are interested in buying. It's important to be organized in sales.

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