The Gist: We are increasingly choosing prospecting approaches that harm our professional relationships. The automation that claims to solve the problem of getting meetings causes the exact opposite outcome. We cannot continue to choose prospecting methods that destroy any ...
The Gist: Clients don’t change when they are not compelled to change. One way to uncover what might cause them to change is ...
The Gist: Many thought leaders recommend that you should not pitch your clients, a model that suggests not starting with ...
The Gist: Preparation can improve your ability to deal with customer conversations, especially difficult ones. It is ...
The Gist: The decades-old stereotype of a high-pressure salesperson is no longer accurate. While some sales organizations ...
The Gist: Most discovery is too shallow to create much value for your prospective clients. Finding the presenting problem is ...
The Gist: The legacy approaches to sales are inadequate for today’s environment. Your prospective clients measure you by how ...
The Gist: A modern approach to sales calls for a new sales conversation. The outcomes of early conversations have changed, ...
The Gist: It is critically important to guide your clients through the conversations necessary to improving their results. ...
The Gist: Your clients measure your performance by the value of the conversations they have with you. Your intentions can ...
The Gist: No one likes getting a straight pitch on LinkedIn. That approach is treated as “spam.” You can make the same ...
The Gist: Gary Klein offers a useful lens to think about your power in a sales conversation. Certain insights are only ...
The Gist: Every human being has potential greater than they can imagine. The main challenge to growth and development is our ...
The Gist: Prospecting isn’t easy, but it’s even harder with a poor strategy. Our only tool in sales is a conversation, ...
The Gist: Early legacy approaches to sales leveraged external factors to create a competitive advantage. Eventually, these ...
The Gist: Even though there is a lot of criticism aimed at legacy sales approaches, there is nothing similar when it comes ...
The Gist: It is natural to believe that a larger competitor has certain advantages. The advantages of size don’t create any ...
The Gist: In the past, salespeople had an advantage created by an information disparity: the salesperson had information ...
The Gist: When we focus on selling, we can lose sight of our obligation to create value for our prospective clients. You ...
The Gist: Advice to “do whatever it takes to win the deal” is presented without the necessary guardrails. When what you’re ...
The Gist: Some salespeople try to acquire a meeting by mentioning their prospective client’s direct competition. This ...
