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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. email, web site and social media analytics) and at the conclusion (e.g. tenders converted and revenue generated).

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Persuasive writing checklist

Red Star Kim

Understand their decision-making process. Meet their needs. Make an emotional connection – Connect with your reader. Use inclusive language – Remove words and phrases that put people off Reduce – Make it more concise. Make it scannable – Are there sufficient sub-titles and sub-headings? Be evocative.

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The Proactive M&BD Executive – Culture shock, marketing models, fee-earner engagement, qualifications and social media

Red Star Kim

As an additional learning resource for delegates, I review the key themes of The Proactive M&BD Executive – Culture shock, marketing models, fee-earner engagement, qualifications and social media. Detailed delegate poll results and feedback are shown towards the end of the post.

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Nine insights: Sales processes and selling skills for targeting and meetings

Red Star Kim

Behaviour in sales meetings). This article is a reminder of the key points valued by the delegates: Nine insights: Sales processes and selling skills for targeting and meetings. Sales meetings. Delegates reported some fee-earner challenges when attending preliminary sales meetings. Debrief after meetings.

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Achieve more engagement and buy-in: Relationships, Plan, Expectations, Benefits, Persuasion and Training

Red Star Kim

This is challenging as everyone is time poor and most communications are digital. And we know that face-to-face communication is most effective in building relationships. Building empathy with fee-earners helps us to understand what they expect and any assumptions they may be making about the likely results.

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Meeting up?

Brightbridge Consulting

A face-to-face meeting is planned! An issue we are not surprisingly seeing is that our customers own clients have stayed with virtual conversations and for lower value sales appear to be increasingly bypassing conversations and going straight for a decision on supplier and placement of the order. The post Meeting up?

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12 TED Talks on Effective Communication to Help You Close

Hubspot Sales

TED Talks on Communication. How to Save the World from Bad Meetings, by David Grady. How Can Groups Make Good Decisions?, Effective communication helps you forge strong connections, collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, close deals, and convince people to share your views. Listen, Learn.