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Your Competitor is Not Who You Think It Is

The Sales Hunter

You probably think your competitor is the big evil company that just came out with a more superior product than yours. That big evil company is not your primary competitor. Your two biggest competitors are: 1. Your own self-limiting doubts about what you can’t do.

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

Iannarino

This approach is problematic because it implies that you’ll share confidential information that will somehow benefit your prospective client, making you untrustworthy. A better approach is to speak about your experience in your prospective client’s industry, something that shows both your expertise and your integrity.

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Online reputation management: Top 10 hurdles and how to overcome them

Search Engine Land

Your online reputation is what users can learn about your brand within a few seconds. But today, it’s not only about what users might think. In this article, you will learn: How to properly monitor what is said about your brand online across different platforms. Who will give the answers? Who you do it for.

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What It Means When You Trash Your Competition

Iannarino

The Gist: There is never a reason to trash your competition. The more mature your contact, the more you’ll alienate them by focusing on your competitor. You best approach to differentiating yourself from your competition is enriching the sales conversation. You need to make sales. You need help now.

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Everything Wrong with Prospecting

Iannarino

The salesperson who sent me a connection request on LinkedIn wrote that he wanted to “connect, learn, and grow,” an admirable set of outcomes. Few professionals would sell something to someone who wouldn’t benefit from what they sell. Many believe that cold calling is dead, but the successful use it to outproduce their competitors.

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Conversation Beats Automation

Iannarino

Use automation only when your outcome doesn’t require creating value. Whenever your competitors reduce something to a transaction, you can create an immediate competitive advantage by treating it as something more. There isn’t a great reason to write checks to pay your bills. Your Car’s Ever-Expiring Warranty.

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Curiosity Is A Way Of Life

Tibor Shanto

If you follow this blog, you know our tag line is “execution, everything else is just talk!”; If you are truly curious, read on, and watch the video below. Be Curious About Things You Don’t Know. Discovery is an opportunity for prospects to discover things about them, not you discovering what pain you can solve.