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The Best Sales Presentations Tap into Audience Expertise

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During your sales presentation, you are the undisputed authority. Enrich Sales Presentations by Facilitating the Discussion It’s terrifying to realize that your audience may be more qualified at presenting the topic than you. Shrewdly, this is the time to abandon your agenda and pivot your role from presenter to facilitator.

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The Best Sales Call Questions are Powered by Outstanding Emotional Intelligence

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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. EQ has the capability of driving topics, uncovering hidden agendas and drawing out underlying objections.

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The Six Secrets to Superior Sales Kickoffs

Sales and Marketing Management

It’s easy and tempting to simply repeat the general format and agenda of past meetings. Secret 3: Set the agenda early. The next step should be to assemble a first draft of the agenda. All presentations focusing on these strategies should play into the meeting theme, to ensure consistency and knowledge retention.

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Imprisoned by PowerPoint: A Foolproof Escape Plan in Five Steps

Sales and Marketing Management

And the key word here is “tool”; the PowerPoint document is not the presentation. 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. Step 1: Create a Flex-Agenda. What if the presentation…was a conversation?”.

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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. In InsideView’s case, we had our product management leader co-present with our head of customer success who regularly shares the roadmap with her customers.

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

Sales and Marketing Management

Larger buying committees mean more agendas and opinions. people are doing their own research, consuming vast amounts of content and hindering a consensus. In fact, 2016 data from CEB shows that the average buying group has increased from 5.4 individuals to 6.8. It can be even larger for enterprise sales deals. It means 6.8

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It’s Time for Joint Business Planning 2.0

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More times than not, the “joint” plan is prepared by the supplier and presented to the customer to approve or modify. To garner and maintain support for the plan, every top-to-top’s agenda should revolve around presenting the status of the plan and specific requests for resources or prioritization.

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