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Conversational Intelligence

Partners in Excellence

This week, following their sage advice, my script on prospecting calls is: “Hi, my name’s Dave, what’s yours? According to their advice, I’ve ticked all the boxes for an intelligent, high impact conversation with this prospect. How the hell are you doing?

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What Are You Willing To Learn To Grow?

The Pipeline

Remember all those sages who predicted that the population of professional sellers would decline by 25%. This limits their success with all their prospects, especially prospects who have adopted tech in better doing their work. Let’s start by thanking Al Gore for inventing the internet ! Beware, many of those pundits are back.

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Buyer Personas and Perception

Janek Performance Group

You know, that ideal customer profile of your best potential prospect? Now imagine a sales rep, rolling into a Monday morning meeting with a new prospect who just shelled out over $100 to fill up his tank. Does last year’s persona prepared by marketing still apply to this prospect? Let’s explore.

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Do You Simplify Doing Business?

Pipeliner

Putting the customer first is sage advice. By focusing on prospects first and hearing out their perspective, we gain valuable insight into how to proceed. When meeting for the first time with an entrepreneur, an excellent question to ask is: ‘What caught your attention for you to take the time to speak with me today?’

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Get the Gatekeeper on Your Side

No More Cold Calling

Think you’re getting away with cold calling and pretending you’re best buddies with your prospect? When you receive referral introductions from people these executives know and trust, your prospects (and their gatekeepers) will happily take your call. Think again. You’re not fooling anybody. Are You Expecting Too Much?

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Outbound sales isn’t dead. It’s evolved.

SalesLoft

” — Our sage VP of Sales in EMEA, Marcus Oulds. We are fanatical believers that external buying signals allow our sellers to meet potential buyers with the right message at the right time in the buying journey. They buy what they know and who they know – by definition cold outbound is neither of these things.”

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Do You Communicate The Sales Success Triangle?

Pipeliner

New representatives focus on the learning ahead plus the pressure to meet their quota. And when the extra effort is seen by the prospective client, credibility, and trust build to the extent, a sale is soon underway. Following sage advice, I gave a percentage of my commission to the technician assigned to my account.

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