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Book review: Sales Mind – 48 tools to help you sell by Helen Kensett

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They are organised into sections: The seller mind shift To see To think: Synthesising your sell To think: Communicating your sell To improve Closing the sale Selling skills The author considers the difference between using our innate natural selling skills compared to learned techniques. How it is better than competitors?

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Context and curiosity drive commerciality and pricing

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We communicate differently with procurement professionals than other decision-makers and users of professional services. To keep things balanced, Ronald J Baker (US accountant) wrote “Implementing value pricing – a radical model for professional firms” in 2010. Often, pricing becomes the focus of these negotiations.

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Why are questions so important? (Questioning skills)

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Two big guns of communication – face-time and reframing (kimtasso.com) Redefining and reframing a problem is often a step in problem-solving methods. These questions address the components of a value proposition (valuable, differentiated and substantiated). – Kim Tasso March 2010 How do you close a sale?

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Selling challenges in professional services: Sales processes and skills

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Digital environment – Where people buy people, the challenge of forging strong personal relationships becomes more acute when most communications are managed through digital channels. A challenging role requiring deep insight into potential clients and value propositions as well as a great deal of confidence.

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Private client management and marketing: Business plans, recruitment, assessments and automation (Nov 2023)

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We talked about the importance of employer brands too ( Employer Value Proposition – EVP – at DAC Beachcroft is described in this post PM Conference Report 2022: Strategy implementation (kimtasso.com) ). EQ covers a lot of the important abilities people need to support good communications and relationships.

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Book review – Managing Brands

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Most M&BD professionals will have some involvement in brand work – whether through campaigns for brand awareness and activation or brand management (ensuring that all activities and communications are in line with agreed brand guidelines). Three essential ingredients are needed: what you do, where you do it and how it gets done.

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The Best Marketing Certification Courses for Marketing Professionals

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Hannah Ash, Marketing Communications Specialist, Graphical Networks : If you’re looking for free but robust, I recommend HubSpot’s inbound certification. Jessica Gagner, Communications & Events Strategy, BioConnect : HubSpot’s inbound certification is a great course. I’ve taken both and they provide a lot of great information.