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Do You Qualify Opportunities Methodically?

Smooth Sale

Attract The Right Job Or Clientele: Do You Qualify Opportunities Methodically? Most sales professionals do not want to waste time, so they fail to qualify opportunities methodically. ’ The result is that they waste far more time disregarding the signals not to move forward to instead experience regret.

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Wouldn’t Sales Call Play-by-Play Analyses be Fun?

Understanding the Sales Force

He used email to reach out to three prospects but didn’t get a response, he messaged three others on LinkedIn, but had the same result, and he didn’t pick up the phone even once! As a result, he has two excellent, large opportunities that he has a very good chance of closing in February. Great move by Dave!

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Will You Grasp the Opportunity to Live Your Calling?

Smooth Sale

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Will You Grasp the Opportunity to Live Your Calling? He provides our guest post, ‘Will You Grasp the Opportunity to Live Your Calling?’ Grasp the Opportunity to Live Your Calling Living Our Calling Today, I am living out my calling. .

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Diplomatic Responses to Annoyances Can Lead to Opportunities

Smooth Sale

Can Lead to Opportunities. No one strategy is guaranteed to work 100% of the time, but diplomatic responses to annoyances often lead to opportunities. A better response is to ask questions related to, ‘Why?’ Respond with a question that will give the person pause to rethink what they said.

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Book notes: No Forms. No Spam. No Cold Calls.

Sales 2.0

I’ve been reviewing some key books in sales and marketing to refresh my knowledge of some of the fundamentals to building world-class “revenue engines”. The second book I’m covering is No Forms. Latané’s book covers an area of marketing that I have long wondered about: Should you “gate” or should you not “gate” your content?

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A Better Way To Data Driven Discovery

The Pipeline

I had the opportunity to dissect a recorded Discovery call with a team last week. For me an opportunity to validate an approach most mismanage, and I normally avoid. Taking a bit braver approach, translating data into questions, then leveraging the response to educate the buyer. And that comes through your questions.

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80% Of Prospects Use One Of Five Common Objections

The Pipeline

While every cold call or prospecting call will result in an objection, the objections are not all that different. All will get the prospect to think about specific things and deliver the same reaction, a reaction to what we introduce. But if we pointed to and asked a question about where they want to be or go?