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Suffering from a Transactional Mindset?
Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2025-10-20 Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2025-10-20

Suffering from a Transactional Mindset?

Are your sellers focused on closing deals—or creating clients for life?

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Want real change? Commit to being changeable!
Account Management, Negotiation and Closing, Sales Strategies Colleen Francis 2023-10-25 Account Management, Negotiation and Closing, Sales Strategies Colleen Francis 2023-10-25

Want real change? Commit to being changeable!

Regardless of your experience and skill, stay teachable and adaptable means you can weather any challenge.

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Consensus Gathering: A Power Tool for Top Performers
Account Management, Negotiation and Closing, Sales Strategies Colleen Francis 2023-09-12 Account Management, Negotiation and Closing, Sales Strategies Colleen Francis 2023-09-12

Consensus Gathering: A Power Tool for Top Performers

Consensus gathering is a powerful discovery tool for top performers. Get all your customer stakeholders in one place before you propose a solution.

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The Power of Co-Selling
Prospecting, Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2023-09-05 Prospecting, Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2023-09-05

The Power of Co-Selling

Here’s a secret that you—a seller or manager—can employ to drive higher results for everybody on the sales team (it's simple and easy.

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Use AI to Connect with Prospects
Prospecting Colleen Francis 2023-08-22 Prospecting Colleen Francis 2023-08-22

Use AI to Connect with Prospects

Are you using AI to connect with prospects? Here’s one incredible and powerful tool we recently implemented on our website.

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Relationship Selling Today
Prospecting, Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2023-07-25 Prospecting, Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2023-07-25

Relationship Selling Today

How’s your relationship selling? Sales is (and always will be) a relationship business. Don't let anybody tell you otherwise. However, the relationship...

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Let Go of the Script
Account Management, Prospecting Colleen Francis 2023-07-14 Account Management, Prospecting Colleen Francis 2023-07-14

Let Go of the Script

Here are field-tested solutions to help you let go of sales scripts that are holding you back from connecting meaningfully with prospects and customers.

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I Was Wrong (I'm Here Now)
Prospecting, Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2023-06-20 Prospecting, Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2023-06-20

I Was Wrong (I'm Here Now)

I was wrong about this! About six months ago, I had to eat some humble pie. Don’t make the same mistake I did and resist being on these platforms!

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The ONLY Way to Get Access
Prospecting Colleen Francis 2023-03-23 Prospecting Colleen Francis 2023-03-23

The ONLY Way to Get Access

How do you get access? Accessing multiple people (buyers, advisors, spies, or stakeholders) is important during your sales cycle. Here's how to effectively..

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Selling Yourself Short?
Negotiation and Closing, Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2022-12-29 Negotiation and Closing, Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2022-12-29

Selling Yourself Short?

It’s time to make all intangible value tangible. How do you achieve that? Ask yourself this simple question: Why do they care about that?

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How to Be a Better Listener
Account Management, Negotiation and Closing, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2022-11-29 Account Management, Negotiation and Closing, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2022-11-29

How to Be a Better Listener

Most salespeople don’t listen. They simply stay quiet and wait their turn to talk or pitch. That’s not in the best interest of the customer. Here are two...

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How to Avoid the Price Trap Once and for All
Objection Handling, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2022-10-27 Objection Handling, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2022-10-27

How to Avoid the Price Trap Once and for All

I always get asked how to either reduce or eliminate the pricing objection from the sales process. It’s easy! Here’s what you have to create.

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Stop Losing Where You Should be Winning
Account Management, Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2022-10-21 Account Management, Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2022-10-21

Stop Losing Where You Should be Winning

Losing customers is an age-old problem in sales. But in today’s marketplace—at a time when prices are climbing and supply chains are tight—this issue has...

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Your Single Point of Failure
Sales Leadership, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2022-10-14 Sales Leadership, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2022-10-14

Your Single Point of Failure

What’s the number one reason you lose existing customers? Watch this video to find out and discover the best thing you can do to improve customer retention.

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Close More Deals With This Strategy
Prospecting, Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2022-09-27 Prospecting, Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2022-09-27

Close More Deals With This Strategy

If you want to close more deals faster, it’s important to make your buyer part of the solution.Confused about what this means, exactly? Let me explain.

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The Secret to Breaking Out of a Sales Slump
Goal Setting and Planning, Observations from the ... Colleen Francis 2022-07-26 Goal Setting and Planning, Observations from the ... Colleen Francis 2022-07-26

The Secret to Breaking Out of a Sales Slump

Trying to motivate a member of your sales team to break out of a sales slump? No matter their skill level, ambition, and work ethic, even the best...

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How to Effectively Employ Team Selling | Sales Strategies
Negotiation and Closing, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2022-07-22 Negotiation and Closing, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2022-07-22

How to Effectively Employ Team Selling | Sales Strategies

How do you employ team selling? What experts can you use, what management levels can you use, and what industry specialists can you use to really help...

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Building Buyer Confidence in Themselves | Sales Strategies
Prospecting, Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2022-07-08 Prospecting, Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2022-07-08

Building Buyer Confidence in Themselves | Sales Strategies

Are you building buyer confidence …in themselves? In today’s marketplace, buyers are younger and more inexperienced than ever before. This means they lack...

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Are You Solving the Wrong Sales Problem?
Observations from the ..., Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2022-06-28 Observations from the ..., Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2022-06-28

Are You Solving the Wrong Sales Problem?

Could you be solving the wrong sales problem? Is the culprit behind a lack of sales the real issue, or an easy "scapegoat" which is masking the real problem?

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6 Ways to Handle Price Increases Like a Sales Pro
Account Management, Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2022-06-17 Account Management, Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2022-06-17

6 Ways to Handle Price Increases Like a Sales Pro

Discover six ways to handle price increases like a sales pro! Price increases are a big part of life now, but most sellers can’t be like the local...

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Colleen Francis works your most important deals alongside the people who own them — accelerating what should close, expanding what has room to grow, cutting what isn't worth the cycles. Leadership gets a forecast it can trust. The team keeps the discipline for every deal after.

613-730-7700
1-877-364-2438 (toll-free)
colleenfrancis@engageselling.com

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