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The Best Sales Call Questions are Powered by Outstanding Emotional Intelligence

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Sales insight company, Emblaze studied behavior among B2B buyers and shares their findings with those willing to know more. Fortunately, researchers agree that the human qualities of self-awareness and social awareness, or EQ, can be developed over time. Letting the conversation drive the subject regardless of your sales agenda is key.

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Sales Discovery Mistakes That Hurt Sales

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It can be easy to get caught up in your own agenda. But this is self-serving and won’t help you win the sale, Fast Company points out. When you approach a conversation thinking only of your own agenda, your goal is to maneuver and manipulate the conversation.” This hurts trust-building and your authenticity.

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The Six Secrets to Superior Sales Kickoffs

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Jim Ninivaggi Many companies have their annual sales kickoff (SKO) meetings approaching. It’s easy and tempting to simply repeat the general format and agenda of past meetings. It’s easy and tempting to simply repeat the general format and agenda of past meetings. Secret 3: Set the agenda early.

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Now Is the Right Time to Build a Hybrid B2B Sales and Marketing Team

Sales and Marketing Management

But in a company with both marketers and sellers, this motto has never been more applicable. Shared agendas and goals increase collaboration. While marketing has always been expected to support sales, it has its own agenda, metrics and mindset, too. In today’s economic climate, it is all about the end result; closing the deal.

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5 Ways to Deliver a Truly Impactful Sales Kickoff

Sales and Marketing Management

The three-day agenda combined information sharing, skills development, team workshops and fun, which I’m sure sounds pretty familiar. While most of this information is vital for customer-facing representatives of your company, it tends to be shared “inside-out” through the lens of how you, the vendor, see the world.

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Imprisoned by PowerPoint: A Foolproof Escape Plan in Five Steps

Sales and Marketing Management

Replacing the venerable Microsoft product with multi-page memos may or may not be a future-proof strategy, but it’s now the law at Seattle’s largest company. Until your company becomes as enlightened as Amazon—and forces you to read the memo—chances are you will still be imprisoned by PowerPoint presentations. Or your audience’s?

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Peer-to-Peer Selling Is A Modern B2B Strategy for Winning Sales

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Larger buying committees mean more agendas and opinions. people are doing their own research, consuming vast amounts of content and hindering a consensus. While some awareness is building, few companies truly create a process with accountability and measure peer-to-peer programs, even though technology exists to do so.