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“You Started This Conversation, Why Can’t You Hold Up Your End Of It….?”

Partners in Excellence

” Quickly, he responded, “I’d like to schedule a meeting where we can demo our solutions… ” I stopped him, “No you raise a fascinating issue and seem to think we can do better. Yet we expect them to get into conversations which they have no capability of holding up their end of the conversation.

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Transforming meetings with StreamAlive’s visual chat experience

Martech

Spending as much time as we do in video conferences, video meet-ups and webinars, we’ve become accustomed to those chat windows where people and their messages and questions come and go in an instant as they automatically scroll to the latest content. It turns out that there’s a different way.

Meeting 100
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6 Reasons It’s So Hard to Sell Your Start-Up Stock as an Ex-Employee

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: I Have Some Shares in a Successful Start-Up I Worked At, But the Company Won’t Let Me Sell Them. Why do scale-ups and startups do this? You get folks demanding information, meetings with management, and more. Multple transfers really add up. It’s a real issue that isn’t discussed enough.

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How Your Sales Meeting Agenda Is Killing Your Deals

Iannarino

I was preparing to share my company’s slide deck, but before I could start, he told me to put it away. He also mentioned that getting the questions right would end up with him signing my contract. My client in Cincinnati stopped me from turning on my laptop. He had a list of questions for me.

Meeting 280
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Meeting And Call Planning, Getting The Most Out Of Each Meeting

Partners in Excellence

It’s time we start acting more purposefully. 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. Today’s topic is on Meeting Planning. The same basic principles apply to having high impact meetings, whoever we are meeting with.

Meeting 109
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What Does Your Client Gain by Meeting with You?

Iannarino

I knew the salesperson would not have much to say when he started our call with, "how's it going," a dead giveaway that the conversation would be short. Sure enough, he followed up with "how's business?" then pivoted to "What is the biggest problem you have in your business right now?"

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Do I Really Need To Be In These Meetings?

Heinz Marketing

During this meeting, I presented a sales document that would help streamline their lead prioritization. First step was to set up a follow up meeting. Both sales and marketing needed to communicate expectations, goals and desired outcomes, limitations, and work together to come up with a solution. And she was right.

Meeting 99