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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. Their appetite for new clients and more work can therefore be limited.

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Town Hall Meetings: It’s a Setup

CM Partners

The dramatic town hall meetings of early 2017 first caught our attention. And in 2017 (not to mention 2009…), we saw some of those meetings go up in flames as legislators scrambled to respond to an enraged – and increasingly polarized – electorate. Given the recent state of affairs, we couldn’t agree more. Here’s the thing.

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What is it Really Like to Work in Sales? Experts Share Their Cold Hard Truths

Hubspot Sales

Pricing Negotiations There’s no doubt that at some point in your career, you will deal with pricing negotiations. Naturally, the sales team can control their process with good time management, helpful follow-ups to prospects, creating value in a first meeting, and more. Using social media incorrectly. Be prepared.

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

Red Star Kim

Whilst we know that fee-earners need to act in a timely way to meet deadlines, they may be under extreme pressure to respond to client demands, meet regulatory time limits, cover for absent colleagues, recruit and train fee-earners and tackle all manner of other management responsibilities. We must be realistic about time constraints.

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Conversation skills book review 3: Conversational intelligence – How great leaders build trust and get extraordinary results by Judith E Glaser (2014)

Red Star Kim

The author was an organisational anthropologist , CEO of Benchmark Communications, has advised leading global businesses and has made numerous media appearances (including Harvard Business Review, New York Times and NBC). And a suggestion to call a break to disengage for a short while to restore warm feelings in a meeting.

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9 Essential Stages for Every B2B Pipeline

Hubspot Sales

As recently as 2015, a sales pipeline was a rudimentary look at your ability to meet or exceed your quota on an aggregate basis. Meeting scheduled — typically referred to a scheduled introductory meeting where a salesperson would qualify the prospect and determine if they were worth pursuing. Negotiation.

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Avoid the revolving door – Recruiting and retaining marketing and business development professionals in PSFs

Red Star Kim

M&BD professionals are going to scrutinize your social media accounts before they apply. Do your fee-earners see M&BD as a much-valued strategic and proactive advisory service or do they fight against anything that isn’t purely an operational support service to meet their always-urgent needs. What are YOUR views?

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