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Practical Use of AI in Sales
Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2025-02-03 Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2025-02-03

Practical Use of AI in Sales

AI isn’t here to steal your job but to make it easier. Here are practical ways to harness AI’s power.

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Pipeline Full of Gunk?
Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2025-01-27 Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2025-01-27

Pipeline Full of Gunk?

Feeling the pressure to fill your pipeline with any lead just to make the numbers? It's a recipe for disaster. Here's why this tactic sets you up for failure.

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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 Long to Keep Calling?
Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2025-01-13 Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2025-01-13

How Long to Keep Calling?

Struggling to get a response from that silent prospect? Check out my follow-up playbook where I blend persistence and smart tactics to turn silence into sales.

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This Word Hurts Your Sales
Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2025-01-06 Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2025-01-06

This Word Hurts Your Sales

Ever wonder why some pitches fall flat? Your team's scripts might be loaded with 'I' talk. Let's flip the script.

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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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Improve Your Listening Skills
Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-12-23 Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-12-23

Improve Your Listening Skills

Ever caught yourself planning the next question during a sales call instead of listening? Ditch the script and turn discovery into genuine conversations.

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Don't Ignore Your Brand
Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-12-16 Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-12-16

Don't Ignore Your Brand

Sick of being lumped together with the competition? Let’s shift the game in your favor with strategies that make you unforgettable.

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Don't Wait to Do This!
Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-12-09 Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-12-09

Don't Wait to Do This!

Planning isn't just for New Year's resolutions—it's a year-round habit of top sales pros. Why thinking ahead can be your secret weapon for sales 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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Your Easiest Referrals
Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-11-25 Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-11-25

Your Easiest Referrals

I get it, referrals aren't always easy to come by. But here’s the silver lining—you’re probably overlooking a referral goldmine right in front of you...

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Sorry, You're not Different…
Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-11-18 Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-11-18

Sorry, You're not Different…

Do your customers think their business is too unique to draw lessons from others? Here's how to counter that mindset so they can benefit from the successful practices of others.

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Unstoppable Coaching - The Rule of 3s
Sales Strategies Colleen Francis 2024-11-13 Sales Strategies Colleen Francis 2024-11-13

Unstoppable Coaching - The Rule of 3s

We all know we should coach but do you have a deliberate, strategic goal in mind for each individual? Here's how to practically achieve this...

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Finding the Financial Winner
Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-11-11 Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-11-11

Finding the Financial Winner

While you’re laser-focused on stakeholders and buyers, you might be missing the financial beneficiary – the real MVP who gains the most from your solution. This video illustrates how to spot this often-overlooked player.

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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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Get These People Involved
Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-10-28 Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-10-28

Get These People Involved

Ever had a deal slip away because clients aren’t confident? Let’s fix that with an easy strategy that prevents customers from feeling isolated and boosts confidence in their choice.

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Find the source - Know the urgency
Sales Strategies Colleen Francis 2024-10-23 Sales Strategies Colleen Francis 2024-10-23

Find the source - Know the urgency

What’s really behind their prospect’s need for the product or service solution they’re buying is rarely apparent. You must dig for it.

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Prepping for a Current Client
Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-10-21 Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-10-21

Prepping for a Current Client

Ever feel like follow-up meetings are a bit of a maze? Let’s simplify it! This video tackles four essential prep steps to help you navigate these meetings smoothly.

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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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Don't be a Whiner
Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-10-07 Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2024-10-07

Don't be a Whiner

Feeling the cold shoulder from your boss? This video shows how to shift gears from whining to winning by presenting solutions instead of problems.

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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
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colleenfrancis@engageselling.com

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