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Know When to Stop Chasing a Prospect
Sales Strategies Colleen Francis 2026-05-07 Sales Strategies Colleen Francis 2026-05-07

Know When to Stop Chasing a Prospect

Most salespeople think persistence is always a virtue. It's not. There's a formula for knowing exactly when to stop chasing a prospect — and most teams ignore it.

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The #1 Factor for Success
Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2025-02-18 Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2025-02-18

The #1 Factor for Success

Let's cut through the clutter and get straight to what turns sales plans into closed deals.

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Why You Need to Pace Yourself
Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-03-25 Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-03-25

Why You Need to Pace Yourself

Don't make these common mistakes during the end of the quarter rush. It's time to build a solid, equal, and paced result month after month for long-term success

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Your Most Critical Sales Skill
Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-01-22 Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-01-22

Your Most Critical Sales Skill

If you make one change this year - do this. It is the single most important thing you can do to fill your pipeline and crush your targets!

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Avoiding the Feature Trap
Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-01-17 Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-01-17

Avoiding the Feature Trap

Discover the simple mindset shift that will help you connect the cool aspects of your products to the value and benefits they provide to customers.

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Your Post-Loss Checklist
Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-01-15 Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-01-15

Your Post-Loss Checklist

It's okay to lose a sale, but it's not okay to keep losing for the same reason. Learn this lesson and bounce back stronger!

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A Simple Mindset for Sales Success
Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-01-10 Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-01-10

A Simple Mindset for Sales Success

Sales can be tough, but staying motivated is key. Use this practical advice to keep going, one step at a time!

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3 Skills Development Activities You Must Embrace
Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2022-04-26 Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2022-04-26

3 Skills Development Activities You Must Embrace

You must build with the best...and grow with the rest. Here are three skills development activities you must embrace in your organization today.

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Rethink SDRs: Your Future Depends on It
Sales Strategies Colleen Francis 2021-02-18 Sales Strategies Colleen Francis 2021-02-18

Rethink SDRs: Your Future Depends on It

There’s a disconnect between the future of sales and the current popularity of two-tiered sales structures that include sales development reps (SDRs)...

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Don't Coach Top Performers?
Observations from the ..., Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2020-12-10 Observations from the ..., Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2020-12-10

Don't Coach Top Performers?

They're hitting and exceeding their targets with no signs of slowing down. Should you even bother to coach your top sales performers?

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3 Steps to Double-Digit Sales Growth | Sales Strategies
Observations from the ..., Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2020-04-10 Observations from the ..., Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2020-04-10

3 Steps to Double-Digit Sales Growth | Sales Strategies

A client once reported to me that the work we did with them last year is creating 35% more revenue to the company than it did in previous years.

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How to Use Operational Value to Become Indispensable | Sales Strategies
Observations from the ..., Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2019-10-25 Observations from the ..., Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2019-10-25

How to Use Operational Value to Become Indispensable | Sales Strategies

There’s one thing I’ve noticed with organizations and people who are really good at bringing new business: they are good at operationalizing value.

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Why Top Performers Are Team Sellers | Sales Strategies
Observations from the ..., Prospecting, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2019-10-18 Observations from the ..., Prospecting, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2019-10-18

Why Top Performers Are Team Sellers | Sales Strategies

Top performers trust other people in the organization to help them manage and sell to customers.

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Non-Sellers Are Key to Improving Sales | Sales Strategies
Observations from the ..., Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2019-09-20 Observations from the ..., Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2019-09-20

Non-Sellers Are Key to Improving Sales | Sales Strategies

Next time you are integrating any kind of sales training program in the organization, ask yourself these questions:

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High Sales Performance Starts With This...
Observations from the ... Colleen Francis 2019-01-08 Observations from the ... Colleen Francis 2019-01-08

High Sales Performance Starts With This...

This is the hidden secret behind high sales performance.

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Telling Signal from Noise when Measuring Sales Performance
Account Management, Goal Setting and Planning, Negotiation and Closing, Objection Handling, Prospecting, Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies Colleen Francis 2016-01-02 Account Management, Goal Setting and Planning, Negotiation and Closing, Objection Handling, Prospecting, Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies Colleen Francis 2016-01-02

Telling Signal from Noise when Measuring Sales Performance

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Move Coaching from Why to What and How | Sales Tips
Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2015-10-16 Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2015-10-16

Move Coaching from Why to What and How | Sales Tips

Are you asking the wrong questions when it comes to your coaching?

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Sales Tips: Hire Right and Fire Fast
Observations from the ..., Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2015-08-21 Observations from the ..., Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2015-08-21

Sales Tips: Hire Right and Fire Fast

Don't hang on to poor performers. You may think that a rep who is "just getting by" isn't hurting your business, but I beg to differ.

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Are You Hiring for the Wrong Reasons?
Observations from the ... Colleen Francis 2015-06-23 Observations from the ... Colleen Francis 2015-06-23

Are You Hiring for the Wrong Reasons?

There is a real art when it comes to hiring. Have you noticed how some people simply know the best candidates to hire for their business?

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Observations from the ... Colleen Francis 2014-10-30 Observations from the ... Colleen Francis 2014-10-30

Top Performance: A Reminder

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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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