Iannarino

AUGUST 5, 2021

A strong first impression will place you in the category of value creator and potential future partner. A strong first impression will place you in the category of value creator and potential future partner. Success in a first meeting all but ensures a second one. Trying too Hard to Build Rapport. What Did Your Dream Client Learn?

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 21, 2022

We’ve completely redone the blog site. You’ll notice it’s no longer just a blog site. There are over 3000 blog posts. Partners In EXCELLENCE has been focusing on thought leadership and helping clients in four major spaces: Innovation, Leadership, Performance, And Transformation.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The post The LinkedIn Algorithm first appeared on Partners in EXCELLENCE Blog -- Making A Difference. The discovery is embedded in a link, in a separate comment. So it appears, what one says, May not be important. Instead, LinkedIn likes how you tell the story. This creates a dilemma–every story has to have tension.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 28, 2020

To Challenge Or Not To Challenge Longing For "Getting Back To Normal" Creating Discomfort The post Challenging The Status Quo first appeared on Partners in EXCELLENCE Blog -- Making A Difference. A sale will never happen until the status quo is challenged in some way. They are too busy to notice things could be better.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

“Virtual” became the watchword for how things got done–whether it involved internal collaboration, partners, or customer engagement. They are helping the customer do the best they can with what they have, supporting them where they can, and positioning themselves as key partners when the economy starts to improve.

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Pipeline Pitch Technique Clients 131

Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

For example, some from today: Meet with the customer and partner. For example, some from today: Meet with the customer and partner. Evaluate potential partners. For example, “Dave, meet with the customer and partner… ” They have to be specific! My life seems to be spent in one meeting after another.

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Construction Meeting Follow-up Customers 126

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 4, 2024

Like several who have answered Dave’s question, I thought back to when I first became interested in sales, which led me to a blog series I wrote in April of 2011 called ELU Squared: The Champion Sales Professional. Preface: My relationship with Page Singletary is actually a couple of months old. He was in the audience of a webcast.

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Sell Mechanical Engineering Up-sell Technology 73

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

“Let’s partner,” or many variations on the theme appear in a large number of the LinkedIn and email communications I receive. ” Unfortunately, partnering has become one of those manipulative terms too many use to disguise their true motives, caring more about what they get than what their partner gets.

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Sales Pop!

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The next scary concept for the competitive-minded is to consider partnering or collaborating with those of similar values and priorities to expand possibilities and results exponentially. Over time, implementing new ideas can become routine and for an excellent outcome! Soon, pride kicks in that we did it! Practice makes perfect.’

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Teamwork Negotiate Sports Referrals 78

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 28, 2022

first appeared on Partners in EXCELLENCE Blog -- Making A Difference. It cannot be about an individual’s value, but rather disagreement is about ideas. When we disagree about ideas, we don’t know how to productively resolve disagreement. We get locked into positions, our egos get in the way.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 30, 2022

It’s the opportunity to figure out, for each and every deal, how to excel, how to connect with the customer, create value, helping them to achieve their goals, and through them achieve their personal goals. What do the people we work with — customers, colleagues, partners—care about?

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

first appeared on Partners in EXCELLENCE Blog -- Making A Difference. Whether it’s a change effort they’ve initiated, or we are trying to incite them to change. Recently, a reader reached out to ask about one of my mentors, Mack Hanan. Mack wrote Consultative Selling in the late 70’s/early 80’s.

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Partners in Excellence

JUNE 6, 2022

The post Innovation And Copying first appeared on Partners in EXCELLENCE Blog -- Making A Difference. While it works for them, it seldom works for us–and those few times it does, it never works nearly as well as it does for those we copied. Innovation is never copying.

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Gaming Process Sell Sales 108

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 11, 2021

They aren’t alone in developing and executing the strategy, in today’s complex B2B sales world, we need to leverage people in our company and partners in our customer engagement strategies. Who in the sales organization owns the responsibility for a deal? ” Sadly, though, in practice it looks very different.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Surrogates that feign interest in customer success are “partner, collaborate, alliance.” Then there were the acronyms, things like “SaaS, XaaS, CLV, SEO, CPC, NPS, FOMO, IoT” generated double and triple points. The more a presenter packed into a presentation, the more the implied credibility.

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Pitch Sales Presentation Gaming 130

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 26, 2021

And if we seek to excel, if we seek to do be the best we can be, we put even more pressure on ourselves. first appeared on Partners in EXCELLENCE Blog -- Making A Difference. As much as we try to find shortcuts and the “Easy Button,” we have to do the stuff that produces the results we are accountable for.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 20, 2022

first appeared on Partners in EXCELLENCE Blog -- Making A Difference. It’s the inability to connect and communicate at a human level. The ability to recognize who we, each, are, and to connect in ways that create meaning and engagement. Related Posts: If You Can't Write, You Can't Sell Is Social Media Really Anti-Social?

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 30, 2021

The post Discounting And Defending Value first appeared on Partners in EXCELLENCE Blog -- Making A Difference. The post Discounting And Defending Value first appeared on Partners in EXCELLENCE Blog -- Making A Difference. Our value has various elements. Then finally, to get the deal, we discount!

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 19, 2021

” The magic is, the easier we make it for them to execute their buying journey, the easier we make it for us (or our partners) to sell. first appeared on Partners in EXCELLENCE Blog -- Making A Difference. How do we make them, first, more effective, then more efficient? The post Is Your Solution Easy To Buy?

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Presentation Sell Customers Product 141

Partners in Excellence

JULY 5, 2021

first appeared on Partners in EXCELLENCE Blog -- Making A Difference. With that said, there is a lot of “open space” in those statements. First, price is meaningless unless the customer solves their problem and achieves what they are expecting to achieve. Sadly, too many sales people lose track of this.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 22, 2022

first appeared on Partners in EXCELLENCE Blog -- Making A Difference. They may not be aware there may be a better way to do things, or even what they may be doing is wrong. They are just doing the best that they know. They are doing what they think is right in the right way, even though it may be wrong. Why Do You Sell?

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Customers Commission Trust Sell 97

Partners in Excellence

MAY 20, 2023

Since migrating to the new platform several months ago, subscribers to the newsletter get my blog posts and updates. “ In March, the team at Scale Venture Partners, hosted a webcast, “ Uncovering Sales Leverage Points. The post Bits And Pieces, 20 May, 2023 appeared first on Partners in EXCELLENCE.

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Teamwork Technology Technology Up-sell 62

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The post Value Is Not A Destination first appeared on Partners in EXCELLENCE Blog -- Making A Difference. Too often, when sales people talk about value, it seems it’s some sort of fixed outcome customers should expect if they buy the sales person’s solution. It’s a pretty antiquated view of value.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Jeremy Donovan published some fascinating data in a post on LinkedIn. He stated 5 years ago, the number of touches, per opportunity, for cold outbound was 200-400. Today, he says it is 1000-1400 touches per opportunity. His observation, “Simply Speechless” is, if anything, an understatement. To make quota, imagine what we have to do!

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 2, 2021

first appeared on Partners in EXCELLENCE Blog -- Making A Difference. Sadly, the trend in developing sales people skills is toward a higher level of prescription. We provide email sequences, we script conversations and talking points. We try to formularize all the activities our sales people do with customers.

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Sell Conversion Customers Process 128

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Channels “partners” have been a part of sales ever since sales have existed. They provide capabilities, amplifying our offerings, enabling our channel partners and us to create greater value to the customer. We create contests and SPiFs to entice the partner sales people.

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Strategic partnership Sales Strategize Commission 103

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 29, 2022

first appeared on Partners in EXCELLENCE Blog -- Making A Difference. While different managers displayed this characteristic in different ways, the common thing was: For some reason, they believed in each of us, more than we believed in ourselves. Sometimes my confidence may have blinded me to something.

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Start-ups Trust Sales 118

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 1, 2021

One of the great privileges I have in writing this blog is the ability to “meet” so many new people around the world, to share ideas and experiences. The post On Giving Thanks first appeared on Partners in EXCELLENCE Blog -- Making A Difference. And we do take moments to reflect and give thanks.

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Clients Meeting Customers Sales 118

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 29, 2021

first appeared on Partners in EXCELLENCE Blog -- Making A Difference. We can’t do anything to prevent it, perhaps, we can just make things a little easier to manage through it. And, we may miss the opportunity to prevent the cold from recurring. In business and sales, we see similar things. What are you solving for?

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Cold Call Sell Customers Sales 155

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 3, 2021

first appeared on Partners in EXCELLENCE Blog -- Making A Difference. A buyer is a functional role, usually in procurement or supply chain management. In the past, sales engaged and educated buyers. Today, many people with different priorities and agendas are involved in that buying process.

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Partners in Excellence

OCTOBER 23, 2021

first appeared on Partners in EXCELLENCE Blog -- Making A Difference. These people are condemned to repeat the same mistakes over and over. We have the opportunity to learn from a flawed, great man. The post We’re All Flawed….

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

For example, some marketing leaders are finding excellent budget trimming opportunities with ineffective paid media, while others whose GTM motions have a demand capture component are still seeing good returns. The annual Gartner 2023 CMO Spend and Strategy Survey was conducted in March and April 2023. Thanks for reading The GTM Newsletter!

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Surrogates that feign interest in customer success are “partner, collaborate, alliance.” Then there were the acronyms, things like “SaaS, XaaS, CLV, SEO, CPC, NPS, FOMO, IoT” generated double and triple points. The more a presenter packed into a presentation, the more the implied credibility.

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Pitch Sales Presentation Gaming 118

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And the number of Excel spreadsheets that managers use to monitor performance doesn’t seem to have declined. Have we built a stronger team, are we growing their ability to perform? What challenges did we face, how did we address them? Are we maximizing performance and productivity in the organization?

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Quota CRM Growth Up-sell 105

Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 27, 2021

The post Meeting Complexity With Complexity first appeared on Partners in EXCELLENCE Blog -- Making A Difference. We are surrounded by complexity–in our business, in our communities, in our lives. Complexity can be, by it’s nature, overwhelming. ” Complexity is the elephant in the room for our customers.

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Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

first appeared on Partners in EXCELLENCE Blog -- Making A Difference. ” Forget the adverse revenue impact. Discounting is a demonstration in our own lack of confidence in the value we create with our solutions! Do we understand that value… and believe it? But too often, that’s what sales focuses on.

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Price Up-sell Sell Presentation 160

Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 7, 2020

No Sales Model Is Forever, What To Do When What… The "New" Onboarding The post Selling In A Covid-19 World first appeared on Partners in EXCELLENCE Blog -- Making A Difference. We all know the world has changed profoundly in the past year. Our work as sales people has changed, probably forever.

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