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New Client meetings 7 Steps to Success
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| Meeting potential clients for the first time can be nerve racking. Wondering if they will be a good fit for your Business and services. Wondering if they will like you. Wondering what you should say.Let me give you some straight talking tips on how to make your first client meeting a success. |
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Here’s........Johnny
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| As a business owner or upper level manager you are at risk of losing touch with the realities of the frontline of your operation. I am referring to the personal contact between your company and your customers. I am confident that you have a very capable sales organization. Is the information from the front line reaching you quickly and accurately? These are the facts you need to effectively make decisions for your company.
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Employee Satisfaction Surveys Stink
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| Truth is, in many organizations, the doing of the survey is more than enough. Only rarely does anyone get down to what happens next. |
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How To Recognize Your Ideal Client, Tips From Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
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| Do you know how to recognize your ideal client? Do you have know the characteristics of your ideal client? Have you selected criteria to decide whether you will do business with someone or not? The honest answer to these questions from too many of you will be NO! And the sad truth of this is that too many businesses try to be all things to all people and believe that anyone that breathes or has a credit card is a prospect. This approach is definitely not strategic.
I suggest a more strategic approach. Define your ideal client. One of my favorite mentors – Michael Gerber, who says, "The foundation of your marketing strategy is an insightful understanding of your customers. It's a "three-legged stool" - who they are, where they are and how they think and behave;" Here are some questions to ask to define your ideal client.
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How To Identify Your Marketing Barriers, Tips From Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
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| Do you have a strategic marketing plan and process? Are you satisfied with your marketing results? Have you taken time to review your marketing program and determine what barriers are preventing the achievement of a successful marketing program? I believe I know the answers to these questions from too many businesses today. I too often hear a resounding NO to each of the questions.
So, let’s engage in a strategic thinking approach to identifying the barriers to your marketing success. And let’s seek an insightful identification of the barriers by asking some questions. What questions might you ask to define your marketing barriers? Here are ten (10) questions your strategic thinking business coach suggests you can use to help identify the barriers that stand between you and a successful marketing program. |
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How To Improve Your Own Time Management Through Seven Strategic Questions, According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
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| Time is such a precious commodity and it is highly valued by strategic thinkers. Strategic thinking people want to get the most benefit out of their time and they have discovered that a great way to do just that is to develop the ability to ask yourself the strategic questions at the right time. And the beauty of this technique is that you only need to invest no more than sixty seconds to ask those questions before you begin any specific activity, task or assignment. The skill of asking the right questions must be acquired and as time goes by you will improve your ability to ask the real strategic questions. It is important to learn how to ask questions and one tip is to have your questions begin with the word “what.” Here is a list of seven strategic questions to ask. |
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Free to Explore
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| In this insightful short article we look at the importance of having 'permission to explore' when it come to having the right job |
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Probing: Leading and Controlling with Questions
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| What: is a probe
Why: do we use probes
Questions are one of the most powerful weapons in a salesperson’s arsenal of procedures and techniques. Questions require a prospect to participate actively in the sale. Questions help us learn the prospects hidden wants and needs. Questions give us time to gain lost composure.
We must become excellent question askers and effective listeners.
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Top 10 Qualifying Fact Finding Questions That Will Earn You the Sale for Consultative Selling
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| Qualifying fact finding questions are directly connected to your industry, your products, your services and most importantly your customers. In consultative selling, I find that asking these 10 insightful qualifying questions early in the selling phase of the sales process saves me time. |
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A Little Mistake That Could Cost You A Fortune
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| There you are, across the table from a prospect. It’s been a very good meeting so far and he seems to like you, your company and your product. You’ve asked some insightful questions and he’s given you frank answers. In response to his answers you’ve laid out an attractive solution to his problem and he seems interested. After you finish speaking, the prospect pauses a moment and then asks you the magic question. “So,” he says, “How much does the solution you’re proposing cost?” |
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Focus Group Best Practices
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| A focus group is a controlled group interview of a target audience demographic. The interview is often led by a facilitator who covers a set series of questions or topics. Benefits of focus group sessions include: increased customer satisfaction & brand perceptions, and informing product development decisions.
Focus groups are a key component to an effective market research program. Generating qualitative feedback in this medium can be more insightful than standardized surveys.
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What questions should I ask when buying a business?
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| There are many questions buyers typically ask when thinking of buying a business that include the level of sales, qualifications and motivations of the employees, questions about landlord and suppliers. While these questions are helpful and appropriate, this article offers some more questions that will help in the decision of buying a business. |
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6 Steps To Successful Content Marketing!
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| Trying to implement a content marketing program? Insightful ways to keep your game in top form! |
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