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Delivering Service Excellence to Your Customers: 5 Steps
Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2022-09-23 Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2022-09-23

Delivering Service Excellence to Your Customers: 5 Steps

When it comes to delivering service excellence to your customers, there are five actionable steps you can take today! There are two kinds of businesses...

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How to Be Different From Your Competition
Prospecting, Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2022-09-16 Prospecting, Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2022-09-16

How to Be Different From Your Competition

How can you stand out and be different from your competition? Sitting in on sales team meetings is one of my favourite things to do..

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Building Organizational Confidence
Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2022-09-09 Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2022-09-09

Building Organizational Confidence

Sales leaders, how do you effectively build organizational confidence? The ability to draw regularly from a deep well of confidence is a top predictor...

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How to Integrate Social Media Into Your Sales Strategy
Account Management, Prospecting Colleen Francis 2022-09-02 Account Management, Prospecting Colleen Francis 2022-09-02

How to Integrate Social Media Into Your Sales Strategy

Discover how to integrate social media into your sales strategy. Sales VPs ask me all the time whether sellers should utilize social media. And they ask...

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Using Criticism to Maximize Sales
Goal Setting and Planning, Objection Handling Colleen Francis 2022-08-30 Goal Setting and Planning, Objection Handling Colleen Francis 2022-08-30

Using Criticism to Maximize Sales

If you want to maximize sales, use criticism! You’ve probably had to deal with professional criticism at some point (or often) in your sales career.

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How to Be an Object of Interest
Prospecting, Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2022-08-26 Prospecting, Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2022-08-26

How to Be an Object of Interest

You must learn to be an object of interest. That means having something interesting to say about topics that matter to your audience.

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The Right Outside and Inside Sales Team Structure | Sales Strategies
Goal Setting and Planning, Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2022-08-19 Goal Setting and Planning, Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2022-08-19

The Right Outside and Inside Sales Team Structure | Sales Strategies

What’s the right outside and inside sales team structure? I recently had a conversation with an exceptional sales leader I work with. We discussed the...

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Intangible Benefits Aren’t
Account Management Colleen Francis 2022-08-12 Account Management Colleen Francis 2022-08-12

Intangible Benefits Aren’t

Are you converting intangible benefits into tangible ROI? Your ability to master this skill determines whether you’ll consistently be successful...

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The Importance of Time Off in Sales | Sales Strategies
Goal Setting and Planning, Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2022-08-05 Goal Setting and Planning, Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2022-08-05

The Importance of Time Off in Sales | Sales Strategies

Don’t underestimate the power and importance of time off in sales. I was on a call the other day with a client of mine who’s a great sales manager. He...

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Positivity in Sales: A Choice, Not a Feeling
Goal Setting and Planning, Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2022-07-29 Goal Setting and Planning, Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2022-07-29

Positivity in Sales: A Choice, Not a Feeling

Positivity in sales is a choice, not a feeling. It doesn’t require much effort to feel worried about the state of the world these days.

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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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Sales Mindset: Focus on What’s in Your Control
Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies Colleen Francis 2022-07-15 Sales Leadership, Sales Strategies Colleen Francis 2022-07-15

Sales Mindset: Focus on What’s in Your Control

What’s your sales mindset during these are uncertain times? Prices are up, markets are haywire, and things we used to take for granted...

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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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Selling to New Leaders in Uncertain Times
Prospecting, Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2022-07-01 Prospecting, Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2022-07-01

Selling to New Leaders in Uncertain Times

Selling to new leaders in these uncertain times? Sellers are reporting to me that they are selling to an unprecedented number of first-time managers and...

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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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The Move to Inside Sales | Sales Strategies
Account Management, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2022-06-24 Account Management, Sales Tips Colleen Francis 2022-06-24

The Move to Inside Sales | Sales Strategies

One of the shifts we’re noticing in today's marketplace involves the move to inside sales. Field sales reps are doing more inside sales than ever before.

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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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The Ideal Buyer in Today’s Marketplace | Sales Strategies
Account Management, Prospecting Colleen Francis 2022-06-10 Account Management, Prospecting Colleen Francis 2022-06-10

The Ideal Buyer in Today’s Marketplace | Sales Strategies

Is there such thing as an ideal buyer? I recently have been interviewed on a number of podcasts because there's great interest in my...

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Early Warning System: Retain More Accounts As You Grow
Account Management, Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2022-06-03 Account Management, Sales Leadership Colleen Francis 2022-06-03

Early Warning System: Retain More Accounts As You Grow

How do you retain more accounts as you grow? Collecting and analyzing sales data indiscriminately is like endlessly tossing buckets of coins into a...

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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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