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Driving Our Customers/Prospects Away!

Partners in Excellence

I, and so many others, write constantly about how buying is changing and how sellers (sales and marketing) must change to respond to these changes. Do we leverage thought leaders and influencers? Yet we revel in the “win,” high fiving each other, looking forward to our commission checks. Is in webcasts?

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Research: How Information Influences Price-Harvard Business Review

HeavyHitter Sales

Here’s one of my recent Harvard Business Review articles titled Research: How Sensory Information Influences Price Decisions. The conversations salespeople have with prospective customers involve these visual, auditory, and kinesthetic channels. Recently, a sales linguistics experiment was conducted in order to answer this question.

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How To Know If You Are A Story Teller or A Story Seller

Bernadette McClelland

When we, ourselves, are influenced by something or someone, or even by being somewhere, it is because we have created a story around that opportunity. In sales we are encouraged to persuade our prospect to move forward to an outcome. This is an area that salespeople revel in. Here are his three and my fourth: LOGOS.

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Do You Have A Practice Sales Culture?

Pipeliner

When you observe a successful sales organization or salesperson, it’s easy to assume they’ve always operated at a high level of sales mastery. They open up sales conversations with ease and grace. Thoughtful and provocative sales conversations seem to happen without effort. These sales organizations make sales look easy.

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Investing In The Future Of Selling

Partners in Excellence

Sometimes, I look at the stuff that’s inflicted on all of us in the name of prospecting, opportunity development, and so forth, and I tend to be pretty pessimistic. It’s students in many of the business and sales programs in our Universities. Every semester a $1000 scholarship is awarded to a young woman in sales.

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Is Your Company Arrogant?

Score More Sales

It dawned on me recently during a webinar when one of my co-panelists, the ever proper sales guru Jonathan Farrington spoke in his brilliant British accent, “Sellers are arrogant”. Sometimes a very subtle thing can hint to a bigger revelation if you just ask a couple extra questions. Buyers have changed.

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Are You Comfortable With Negotiation?

Smooth Sale

Anyone associated with sales or entrepreneurship quickly recognizes the elements of successful negotiation. In the end, you are far more likely to earn the job or the sale. The relationship building effort influences doing business together. Do You Focus On Your Prospect? Sales Tips: Are You Comfortable With Negotiation?