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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. While none of the delegates’ firms were actively using personas to drive targeting, they all recognised their value. Sales meetings.

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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. Identify emotional hot buttons. 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?

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Why are questions so important? (Questioning skills)

Red Star Kim

We ask questions to avoid making wrong assumptions or adopting the wrong focus. will make people pause to consider how their feelings compare with those they had the previous day. Questions are important when we meet someone new. For example, when we first meet at a networking event. For example, “How are you today?”

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Telephone call challenges: Emotions, data, selling and follow up

Red Star Kim

Finding a suitable location (quiet and without interruptions) to make calls when working in an office environment was sometimes a challenge. Some were fortunate to receive full details from the firm’s CRM supported by analytics showing digital activity and enquiry details. Qualification of calls and enquiries was also more difficult.

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How Sellers Can Use Real-Time Insights to Weaponize Their CRM

Miller Heiman Group

As technology evolved, software like Salesforce appeared on the scene, making high-level CRM platforms, and the possibilities they enabled, accessible to businesses of all sizes. That’s because they were built to facilitate management insights and operations—not to help sellers make the sale.

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15+ Interview Questions for Consultants [+ Sample Responses]

Hubspot Sales

Explain your thought process and decision-making. I enjoy the process of analyzing complex data, identifying patterns and trends, and using that data to make informed recommendations. Identify one or two relevant examples demonstrating your ability to meet the expectations outlined in the job description.