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How NOT to Start a Meeting
Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2025-01-20 Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2025-01-20

How NOT to Start a Meeting

Imagine starting your sales conversations with what truly matters. Forget the fluff and focus on your client's goals and challenges. Here's how...

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How Top Sellers Do Discovery
Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-12-30 Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-12-30

How Top Sellers Do Discovery

Imagine closing more deals just by tweaking your discovery call questions. Use this approach to the heart of the client's needs and how they measure success.

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Doing This Pays Dividends...
Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-12-02 Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-12-02

Doing This Pays Dividends...

Ever feel like your proposals are missing the mark? Discover the magic of asking the right questions upfront.

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Tackle the Tough Stuff
Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-11-04 Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-11-04

Tackle the Tough Stuff

If you're avoiding controversial topics, you're missing out. This video reveals how tackling tough industry issues head-on can set you apart.

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The Magic Question
Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-10-14 Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-10-14

The Magic Question

Don't just uncover the problem—ask your client what they want the solution to look like tomorrow. Here's how to use that question to create real value by bridging that gap.

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Stop Talking - Start Asking
Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-09-16 Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-09-16

Stop Talking - Start Asking

In this video, we break down why the *real* secret sauce isn't in what you say but in what you ask. Curious minds win deals!

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How to Ask Effective Sales Questions
Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2023-12-13 Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2023-12-13

How to Ask Effective Sales Questions

Want to unlock more customer insights during your sales conversations? It's all about asking "single-barreled" questions and giving more space for answers...

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I Repeat: Ask for the Sale! | Sales Strategies
Observations from the ..., Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2020-04-17 Observations from the ..., Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2020-04-17

I Repeat: Ask for the Sale! | Sales Strategies

I estimate that the majority of times you lose the business is because you simply weren't clear at the end of the discussion that you actually wanted to do...

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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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The Most Powerful One-Word Sales Question | Sales Strategies
Observations from the ..., Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2020-02-07 Observations from the ..., Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2020-02-07

The Most Powerful One-Word Sales Question | Sales Strategies

My very favorite question in all of selling is simply, "Why?" Why do I like it so much? There are a number of reasons. 

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Handling Objections like a Pro | Sales Tips
Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2017-02-16 Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2017-02-16

Handling Objections like a Pro | Sales Tips

There is one key ingredient to successfully handling sales objections. And you probably won't like the answer.

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Engage in Conversation, Not Combat | Sales Tips
Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2016-11-10 Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2016-11-10

Engage in Conversation, Not Combat | Sales Tips

Far too often sales reps get into combat with their customers over questions and objections and you can get into combat if you want to win the sale, you have to stay in conversations.

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Sales Advice from Mike Tyson | Sales Tips
Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2016-11-04 Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2016-11-04

Sales Advice from Mike Tyson | Sales Tips

Mike Tyson once said, you know, everybody has a set plan they're going to use until they step in the ring and they get punched in the face.

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3 Questions, 3 Answers
Observations from the ... Colleen Francis 2014-10-14 Observations from the ... Colleen Francis 2014-10-14

3 Questions, 3 Answers

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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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