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Always Thank The Gatekeeper

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When I ask sales people what their biggest challenge is in getting to speak directly with decision makers they are targeting, and voice mail or gatekeepers are at the top of the list, (while call reluctance should be right there with the other two, they don’t usually volunteer that fact). This will primarily look at the latter. Tibor Shanto.

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3 Words to Ditch To Improve Your Sales – Sales eXecution 304

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So here we go: Gatekeeper – Talk about starting off on the wrong foot. Sadly, many of the people that sellers refer to as gatekeepers, can actually be helpful in moving your agenda forward. Right out of the gate, us vs. them.

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How To Get A Meeting With Anyone – Book Review

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Stu lays out why you need to stop thinking about the executive assistant or admin as a gatekeeper, and view them as your gateway to success in meeting with anyone. That does not mean you have to go out and become an executive, but understand and “live” in their world so you can relate to them, and more importantly they can relate to you.

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2 Serious Mistakes To Avoid In Prospecting

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Thing 1 – “Gatekeeper”. No one knows those players better than what many mistakenly call the ‘Gatekeeper’. For prospecting, the singular and only objective is engagement with a buyer, plainly speaking, as many of you would express, “getting in”. People focused on leveraging clients’ objective for prospecting success, detest this term.