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Selling challenges in professional services: Sales processes and skills

Red Star Kim

Nervousness – Shyness, modesty, lack of confidence and fear of failure can make fee-earners reluctant to organise meetings to take the next steps in building a potential client relationship. There is rarely a deep understanding of how disparate and disconnected decision-making units are across such large organisations.

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

Red Star Kim

And that technology is making some jobs obsolete. Understand how and why they make decisions. Urgency (are you making it crucial?) It helps with developing the value proposition by considering three buckets: How your service is the same as competitors? Our buyers’ reality is a constantly changing flux.

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Book review – Managing Brands

Red Star Kim

Brands have attributes, values and personality – customers will perceive or make associations with a brand that can be positive or negative. Google ZMOT (Zero Moment of Truth) describes this less as a journey and more as a flight map: Zero moment of truth (ZMOT) decision-making moment – Think with Google.

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5 Strategies to stand out in a competitive market

Insightly

In Wrexham, unfortunately, that psyche was significantly damaged 15 years back when the town’s football team fell out of the professional league, and hasn’t been able to put together a team good enough to make it back ever since. It’s a pretty crowded screen, and you can just make out Insightly there.

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5 Strategies to stand out in a competitive market

Insightly

In Wrexham, unfortunately, that psyche was significantly damaged 15 years back when the town’s football team fell out of the professional league, and hasn’t been able to put together a team good enough to make it back ever since. It’s a pretty crowded screen, and you can just make out Insightly there.

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The Challenger Sales model: Everything you need to know

Zendesk

The Challenger Sales model was developed in 2011 as a response to customers entering sales situations with more information than in previous years. Let’s take a look at what makes a Challenger and why this new method might benefit your business. Makes budget discussions less delicate, given the aggressive nature of the methodology.

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5 Popular Sales Metrics That Destroy Sales Performance

Hubspot Sales

Beane’s strategy -- as depicted in the 2011 film, “Moneyball” -- has traversed beyond the world of baseball to nearly all sectors of business and has become synonymous with making data-driven decisions. A high probability indicator (HPI) aligning with our value proposition. Completion of our assessment process.

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