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Allow Yourself Genuine Sales Success
What’s more important maintaining a professional demeanor, or allowing yourself to really care about your potential clients? Fortunately, this isn’t an either or choice. You can be both professional and sincere.

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“A Business Coach’s Top Ten Tactics for Marketing Professional Services”
Marketing professional services is a real and difficult challenge. The challenges of marketing professional services are different from those of marketing products. Two major reasons for the differences are that clients cannot see or touch professional services before they buy them and the professional services are often produced and consumed simultaneously. And another reason is that marketing professional services is split among marketing, sales, professional and management staff instead of a dedicated marketing and sales force. Based upon my research and my own professional experience, I developed a Top Ten Tactics for marketing professional services. My top ten tactics for marketing professional services are:

Use the Magic Words in Consultative Selling
At some point in a sales meeting with a client, a professional is expected to offer some course of action. If the professional is focused only on what he or she came to offer the client, there is a great risk of rejection. Using these four questions—we call them the magic words—the professional has a greater probability of closing a sale.
Breakdown Breakthrough: Overcoming the 12 Common Professional Crises Working Women Face
Thousands of professional women today are discovering a startling and deeply disturbing truth – that their professional lives are no longer working. Often this realization hits a woman smack between the eyes in midlife, and is experienced as a full-blown crisis. In fact, there are 12 common crises professional women are facing today, all sharing one common theme – disempowerment — the inability to advocate effectively for oneself or move forward in positive, self-affirming and productive ways. Read about new research findings on professional women today which helps women address, and successfully overcome, these personal and professional challenges.
THE TOO SALESY PARADOX WHY PROFESSIONAL SERVICE PROVIDERS CANT SELL AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT
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.

Allow Yourself Genuine Sales Success
What’s more important maintaining a professional demeanor, or allowing yourself to really care about your potential clients? Fortunately, this isn’t an either or choice. You can be both professional and sincere.

The End of Casual Friday
Would the business world function better if people dressed more formally? And has the current financial crisis spelled the end of casual Friday? In time of trouble should people be more intent and serious about their decorum and demeanor on the job?
Become the Star You Are Meant to Be
You want more out of life than just a job. Whether you work for a large company, a startup, a nonprofit, or you are an entrepreneur, you want to be a star; a complete and total personal and professional success. But professional success is complicated and may be elusive. To achieve professional success and become the star you are meant to be you need a professional success blueprint.
What's Leadership?
It is a natural instinct to want to be a leader yet so many people have no idea what is required to be one. As they climb the ladder of success they feel they are leaders and have the demeanor requiring being followed without earning it. Rank has it’s privilege but not in the hearts of men and so conformity is through duty.

Those Crazy People
His voice was loud; his attitude hostile; his words caustic. Despite how rude he was, she remained calm, professional, and polite throughout the challenging encounter. Even from my close vantage point, I didn't detect a hint of irritation in her demeanor.

Fight or Flight
Recently, I spent quite a bit of time with a dear friend of mine who could best be described as the quintessential Southern gentlemen. He is well into his eighth decade of life but, in many ways, his attitudes and demeanor harken back even farther to a much-earlier time.

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