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Do Your Prospects Trust Themselves? | Sales Strategies
Observations from the ..., Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2021-09-10 Observations from the ..., Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2021-09-10

Do Your Prospects Trust Themselves? | Sales Strategies

Implement these three simple referral strategies and your buyers’ trust will increase and they will feel more confident in their abilities to make a decision.

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Building Trust With Your Clients
Account Management, Observations from the ... Colleen Francis 2021-09-09 Account Management, Observations from the ... Colleen Francis 2021-09-09

Building Trust With Your Clients

This isn't rocket science. Yet, it's unfathomable to me the amount of times this simple advice is ignored by salespeople across the industry.

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Top Sellers Treat Prospects Like This...
Observations from the ... Colleen Francis 2021-09-07 Observations from the ... Colleen Francis 2021-09-07

Top Sellers Treat Prospects Like This...

How much attention are you paying to the way your sales team is engaging with their buyers?

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The Best Way to Kill Your Proposals
Observations from the ... Colleen Francis 2021-08-31 Observations from the ... Colleen Francis 2021-08-31

The Best Way to Kill Your Proposals

Remember, nothing kills a proposal faster than packing it with...

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Align to the Buyer's Goals and Be Rewarded | Sales Strategies
Observations from the ..., Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2021-08-27 Observations from the ..., Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2021-08-27

Align to the Buyer's Goals and Be Rewarded | Sales Strategies

What does “reward” mean? Well, reward means that those buyers who are rewarding salespeople for this alignment are rewarding them with three things.

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Try New Things to Grow Your Sales
Observations from the ... Colleen Francis 2021-08-24 Observations from the ... Colleen Francis 2021-08-24

Try New Things to Grow Your Sales

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

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Getting Your Sales Calls Returned
Observations from the ... Colleen Francis 2021-08-20 Observations from the ... Colleen Francis 2021-08-20

Getting Your Sales Calls Returned

Getting sales calls returned is almost always on a salesperson's mind.

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One Bad Apple Does NOT Spoil the Bunch
Observations from the ... Colleen Francis 2021-08-19 Observations from the ... Colleen Francis 2021-08-19

One Bad Apple Does NOT Spoil the Bunch

Who you sell to is your choice. When you assume they're good, you will win.

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Don't Lead With Fear
Observations from the ... Colleen Francis 2021-08-17 Observations from the ... Colleen Francis 2021-08-17

Don't Lead With Fear

You've probably heard some of the buzz around leading with fear.

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Are You Coachable? | Sales Strategies
Observations from the ..., Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2021-08-13 Observations from the ..., Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2021-08-13

Are You Coachable? | Sales Strategies

Sales leaders spend a great deal of time talking to managers on how to be effective coaches. However, it’s important for salespeople to realize that they...

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The Key to Faster Sales
Goal Setting and Planning, Observations from the ... Colleen Francis 2021-08-10 Goal Setting and Planning, Observations from the ... Colleen Francis 2021-08-10

The Key to Faster Sales

The key to faster sales is extremely obvious, yet also counterintuitive.

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Stop Waiting, Start Doing!
Observations from the ... Colleen Francis 2021-08-05 Observations from the ... Colleen Francis 2021-08-05

Stop Waiting, Start Doing!

When salespeople are stuck or in a slump, many of them tend to...wait. That’s right, far too many sellers just wait for things to get better.

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Where Are Your Pinch Points?
Observations from the ... Colleen Francis 2021-08-03 Observations from the ... Colleen Francis 2021-08-03

Where Are Your Pinch Points?

A lack of speed kills sales.

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Make Your Daily Routine Your Own | Sales Strategies
Observations from the ..., Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2021-07-30 Observations from the ..., Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2021-07-30

Make Your Daily Routine Your Own | Sales Strategies

It’s important to remember that you do not need to have a set routine that's prescribed by somebody else. Everybody is different. 

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Why Sales Strategies Fail
Observations from the ... Colleen Francis 2021-07-29 Observations from the ... Colleen Francis 2021-07-29

Why Sales Strategies Fail

Have you ever put together a sales strategy which you believed to be near flawless, only to see it fail in the long run?

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A Follow Up Schedule That Works
Observations from the ..., Prospecting Colleen Francis 2021-07-22 Observations from the ..., Prospecting Colleen Francis 2021-07-22

A Follow Up Schedule That Works

Too many salespeople fail to follow up, and often, it's because they don't have a follow up schedule that works.

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Catching a Loss Before It Happens | Sales Strategies
Observations from the ..., Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2021-07-16 Observations from the ..., Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2021-07-16

Catching a Loss Before It Happens | Sales Strategies

I've been emphasizing to a number of clients the importance of creating an “early warning system.” It’s a system that helps you identify and prevent...

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Don't Be Afraid of Your Pricing
Negotiation and Closing, Observations from the ... Colleen Francis 2021-07-13 Negotiation and Closing, Observations from the ... Colleen Francis 2021-07-13

Don't Be Afraid of Your Pricing

Want to know the easiest way to lose control of the sales process?

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Your Client Wants an Insider - Not a Partner
Observations from the ..., Sales Strategies Colleen Francis 2021-07-08 Observations from the ..., Sales Strategies Colleen Francis 2021-07-08

Your Client Wants an Insider - Not a Partner

There isn't a buzzword out there today that's more dated than the notion of you being in "partnership."

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Generalizing from a Negative can Sabotage Your Mindset | Sales Strategies
Observations from the ..., Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2021-07-02 Observations from the ..., Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2021-07-02

Generalizing from a Negative can Sabotage Your Mindset | Sales Strategies

Changing your mindset to really focus on specific positives will help ensure that you continue to win based on what you're good at.

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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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