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THE TOO SALESY PARADOX WHY PROFESSIONAL SERVICE PROVIDERS CANT SELL AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT
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| By John Doerr
The distress is obvious. The complaints are frequent. The clear disdain for the activity is surprisingly unfiltered. What are we talking about? Selling, or more specifically, selling professional services.
In conversation after conversation as I work with clients, conduct seminars, or network with my professional colleagues, I hear the same comments:
Selling conflicts with my values as a professional.
Selling gets in the way of building strong relationships.
You have to have it in your genes - like a used car salesman.
I don't sell professional services - I work with my clients to create the best solutions.
People won't respect me as a professional if I am selling to them.
I can't sell to them. What will they think of me?
It (selling) is not what we do around here.
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| Research conducted by Russ Alan Prince, a leading authority on affluent investors, found that clients consider their relationship with financial professionals to be four times more important than investment performance in gauging their overall satisfaction. |
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Mentors as Advocates Champions and Challengers
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| An aspect of the mentoring relationship that is often missed. If you need expert help yourself in this regard then read 'The Prince' by Machiavelli. |
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The Magic of Action How To Overcome Procrastination
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| Remember the story of the Princess and the Toad, where an unhappy Princess frees a handsome Prince from a frog's body with a juicy, wet kiss? Imagine she'd avoided the Toad and that instead, our Princess had looked at him and thought: "How disgusting. I'll never kiss you.” |
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The Regulation of Franchising in PEI -- Franchise Lawyer Canada
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| This article examines the regulation of franchising in Prince Edward Island, Canada, pursuant to the Franchises Act of PEI.
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Busy About
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| Once upon a time, a prince and princess lived in stressful palace, surrounded by a stressful village, inside a stressful land. They knew it was stressful because everyone said it was. Their parents, the king and queen, worked from sunrise to sunset hearing issues from their kingdom, weighing the requests, and appropriating the collective harvest to the people of their land. |
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Are You Kissing Frogs Or Making Sales?
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| Most of us were taught "You have to kiss many frogs before you meet the handsome prince." The problem is you've probably applied this philosophy to getting business as well!
When I first started selling years ago, I was told the exact same thing. My boss actually threw the Yellow Pages on my desk and said
"Go Get 'Em Kid!" (I kid you not)
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The Pygmalion Effect
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| There is a tale from Ancient Greece of how a prince turned a statue from ivory to life and married her. It is the story of Pygmalion. Remarkably, the principles of this story are relevant to modern techniques of leadership. Read this article to find out how. |
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The Marketing Pyramid: How to Find Your Ideal Client
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| If you were trying to find your soul mate through a dating site, a description such as “looking for someone 35-45 in Seattle who drives a red car” isn’t going to find you your Prince or Princess Charming. The same is true with your marketing materials. To find those people who get you excited about your business and what you’re doing, you have to laser in on your “ideal client.” |
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Make Small Commitments. Get Big Changes.
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| Taking Care of You
Drink plenty of water.
Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.
Eat more fruits and vegetables and eat less that is manufactured in processing plants.
Avoid eating food that is handed to you through a window.
Live the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm and Empathy.
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Be Who You Are
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| The hidden message in every fairytale can teach us a very valuable lesson. The frog was already a prince. The princesses were already princesses. All they were waiting for was a touch of magic to enable them to reveal their true selves. Just like every one of us, these fictitious characters were all born perfect but their true beauty became obscured and compromised by life. You don’t need magic to become who you already are. You only need to accept the perfection of your self. |
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