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2023 October 04 - Coach's Corner
CC23-10-01 A New Cold Outreach Approach Can Drive Results
CC23-10-02 How Same Side Selling Has Resulted In Record Numbers By Setting Themselves Apart
CC23-10-03 How Do You Uncover Internal and External Competition In Deals
CC23-10-04 How Do You Keep QBRs Fresh & Not Like Groundhog Day
CC23-10-05 Getting Prospects To Give You The Time Of Day To Uncover Their Problems
CC23-10-06 Client Wants To Reduce Proposal Services Which Puts Their Desired Results At Risk
CC23-10-07 Uncovering Impact & Others Involved Is Important To Help Client See Value
CC23-10-08 How To Best Prospect Clients At Trade Shows
CC23-10-09 Following Up With Clients With Chasing Them
2023 September 13 - Coach's Corner
CC23-09-01 Entice, Disarm & Discover Improves Sales Success Rate
CC23-09-02 How Building Trust Can Lead To Long Term Partnerships
CC23-09-03 How Do You Overcome A Prospect Blaming Economy Market
CC23-09-04 How to Follow-up After Interested Customer Ghosting
CC23-09-05 Answering Client On How You Are Better Than The Competition
CC23-09-06 Overcoming Price Objection
CC23-09-07 The Number One Overlooked Part Of Email Messages
CC23-09-08 How Do We Move To Confirming The Sale
CC23-09-09 Uncovering Key Issues Clients Are Facing To Open Conversations
CC23-09-10 Messaging and Content Tips For Customer Outreach
2023 August 02 - Coach's Corner
CC23-08-01 Revisit Impact & Results When Clients Want To Choose Competition
CC23-08-02 What To Do When Cold Outreach Is Falling On Deaf Ears
CC23-08-03 How To Get Case Studies When Customers Want Information Private
CC23-08-04 What Is The Best Way To Ask For Referrals
CC23-08-05 Deal Killed In Last Hour By Silent Partner, What Now
CC23-08-06 Best Way To Introduce New Products To Existing Customers
CC23-08-07 Best Outreach Approach For Messaging
CC23-08-08 Increased Pressure For Dollars In Your Industry, How Do You Uncover Priorities
CC23-08-09 Giving Clients The Time To Answer Your Questions Will Help Uncover Problems & Impact
2023 July 05 - Coach's Corner
CC23-07-01 How To Waste Less Time On Unqualified Leads
CC23-07-02 How To Determine Best Fit With Client
CC23-07-03 Customer Loved Product But Then Ghosted, How To Re-Engage
CC23-07-04 How To Charge For Services When You Historically Haven’t
CC23-07-05 If You Are New To Same Side Selling, Here Are Common Mistakes Using The Quadrants
CC23-07-06 Best Sales Approach For Reaching Out To Top Level Executives
CC23-07-07 Prospect Cites Importance But Won’t Include Others
CC23-07-08 How To Entice, Disarm and Use Elevator Rant
CC23-07-09 Identify Other Challenges Clients Face To Uncover Impact And Results
2023 June 07 - Coach's Corner
CC23-06-01 How To Use LinkedIn Polling For Marketing Outreach
CC23-06-02 How to Re-Engage Prospect Who Was Engaged & Now Ghosted
CC23-06-03 From Failed Efforts To Successful Cold Outreach
CC23-06-04 Where Demos Fit Into The Sales Process
CC23-06-05 What Happens When You Don’t Get A Response From Your Concise Business Case
CC23-06-06 How To Best Initiate Conversation At Networking Events or Conferences
CC23-06-07 Setting Up Cold Call To Engage Customer
CC23-06-08 Determine Why or Why Not A Client Wouldn’t Choose You For Your Best Sales Approach
2023 May 03 - Coach's Corner
CC23-05-01 Getting Past Gatekeeper By Disarming
CC23-05-02 Determining Best Fit In First Meeting Can Increase Success
CC23-05-03 Using Quadrants After Interested Client Goes Silent
CC23-05-04 Focus On The Problems You Solve With Cold Outreach
CC23-05-05 Determine A Client’s Role With The Quadrants
CC23-05-06 Avoid Common Trap With Quadrants Where Client Ghosts You
CC23-05-07 How To Re-Engage Client Who Goes Silent & Pique Their Interest
CC23-05-08 Streamlining & Disarming Introductions from Referrals
CC23-05-09 Creating Email Sequences That Piques Interest On Cold Outreach
CC23-05-10 Handling Clients Switching Distribution Partners Without Burning Bridges
2023 April 05 - Coach's Corner
CC23-04-01 Uncovering Customers True Problem Using Quadrants
CC23-04-02 Finding Qualified Leads Using Quadrants To Avoid Wasting Time
CC23-04-03 How To Recover When Someone Has Dropped The Ball
CC23-04-04 Introducing Client Success Roadmap To New Clients
CC23-04-05 How To Grab Attention & Engage Customers When Sharing Monthly Reports
CC23-04-06 What To Do When Client Claims They Have 0 Common Industry Issues
CC23-04-07 Best Tips For Following Up With People After Networking Events
CC23-04-08 How To Handle Customers Using You For Pricing & Information For Other Vendors
CC23-04-09 How To Be Consistent and Engaging With LinkedIn Content
CC23-04-10 Defining And Using The Client Vision Pyramid
2023 March 01 - Coach's Corner
CC23-03-01 Uncovering Client’s Impact Using Quadrants
CC23-03-02 Defining What Clients Success Looks Like
CC23-03-03 How Using The Quadrants To Define Impact & Results
CC23-03-04 When Is The Best Time For The Client Vision Pyramid
CC23-03-05 How To Get A Client To Open & Respond To Your Emails
CC23-03-06 Determining Best Fit To Avoid Losing Deals
CC23-03-07 Uncovering Objections With Client To Determine Best Fit
CC23-03-08 How To Leverage Expertise in Outreach
CC23-03-09 How To Politely Decline Clients But Remain Relationship
CC23-03-10 Adding on New Services to Your Business & Defining Outcome
CC23-03-11 Next Steps When Client Stops Responding
2023 February 01 - Coach's Corner
CC23-02-01 Defining Impact So The Client Sells You
CC23-02-02 Impact and Results Help Capture Attention
CC23-02-03 What Makes A Good Email Sequence
CC23-02-04 How To Best Disarm To Lower Your Clients Guard
CC23-02-05 How To Book In Person Meeting With Clients
CC23-02-06 Successfully Setting Up Quarterly Business Meetings With Clients
CC23-02-07 Proactively Proving Value and Results Before Client Renewals
CC23-02-08 Best Way To Follow Up After A Well Received Presentation
CC23-02-09 Approaching Clients Who Expand Scope Without Expanding Budget
CC23-02-10 Determining Best Fit Leads To Success & Less Resources Wasted
CC23-02-11Asking The Right Questions To Prove Impact When They Are Trying To Cut Costs
2023 January 04 - Coach's Corner
CC23-01-01 Determining Best Fit To Land Client
CC23-01-02 Disarming with Current Trends to Intrigue Potential Clients
CC23-01-03 How to Disarm The Know It All Client
CC23-01-04 Reconnecting With Clients When It's Been A Long Time
CC23-01-05 How to Recover From Burnout & Lost Deals
CC23-01-06 Following Up Without Feeling Like A Nuisance
CC23-01-07 How to Engage Higher Ups Who Don't Express Urgency
CC23-01-08 Uncovering Results & Impact with Client to Move Deal Forward
CC23-01-09 Engaging Existing Contacts When Taking Over New Role or Territory
CC23-01-10 Measuring Results and Success with Clients
CC23-01-11 Pre-Solving Objections To Avoid The Client Dropping The Ball
CC23-01-12 Following Up On Deals When New Role Takes Over
2022 Coach's Corner
2022 December 07 - Coach's Corner
CC22-12-01 Using The Client Vision Pyramid To Qualify Leads & Quadrants To Define Client Success
CC22-12-02 When to Use Client Vision Pyramid in Sales Conversation
CC22-12-03 Closing a $2.4 Million Deal by Disarming & Listening To Client
CC22-12-04 How to Get a Client Talking About Issue, Impact & Importance
CC22-12-05 As You Grow Should You Still Work With Smaller Accounts
CC22-12-06 How to Develop Client Vision Pyramid with Multiple Business Units
CC22-12-07 Setting Up Out Reach Sequence to Avoid Being Ghosted
CC22-12-08 Uncovering Impact with Client’s Who Don’t Show Urgency
CC22-12-09 How to Set Up RFP to Show Impact & Results
CC22-12-10 Why Most Proposals Suck
2022 November 02 - Coach's Corner
CC22-11-01 How To Follow Up When There Isn’t Urgency
CC22-11-02 Following Up After You Lost A Deal
CC22-11-03 Recovering With Client When You Dropped The Ball In The Past
CC22-11-04 Getting The Client To Define Their Top Problems
CC22-11-05 Handling Politics With Competing Vendors
CC22-11-06 Striking Balance With Partners Who Keep You Out Of Deals
CC22-11-07 Why Cold Emails Are Not A Waste Of Time
CC22-11-08 Pre-Meeting Setup To Ensure Success
CC22-11-09 Leveraging Expertise Without Talking Negatively About The Competition
CC22-11-10 How To Have Up A Successful First Meeting
CC22-11-11Uncovering Who Are The Key Decision Makers
2022 October 04 - Coach's Corner
CC22-10-01 Client’s Haven't Defined The Impact of Results
CC22-10-02 How to Recover After Billing Client for Something That You Didn’t Deliver
CC22-10-03 How to Differentiate Yourself From Competitors
CC22-10-04 How To Avoid Affiliate Company Cutting You Out of The Equation
CC22-10-05 How to Re-engage with Client After Its Been a While
CC22-10-06 Follow Up with Client Knowing The Chosen Vendor Hasn’t Delivered
CC22-10-07 How to Attract Customers & Establish Expertise in a New Market
CC22-10-08 Recovering with Client After Losing to Another Vendor Using The Quadrants
CC22-10-09 Confidence In Your Pricing
CC22-10-10 Following Up After No Response Without Discounting Price
CC22-10-11 Avoiding Discounts & Showing Value in Pricing
CC22-10-12 What to Include in Marketing Material
CC22-10-13 How to Focus on Results Instead of Pricing
CC22-10-14 Client Ghosts You After Sending Concise Business Case
CC22-10-15 Has The Client Convinced You Its a Problem Worth Solving
2022 September 07 - Coach's Corner
CC22-09-01 Cold Outreach with Award Recipients
CC22-09-02 Pre-Addressing Objectors in a Group Meeting for Success
CC22-09-03 Client Just Wants a Quote - Will Not answer Questions
CC22-09-04 Quoting a List of Items without Results
CC22-09-05 Dealing with Delays and Excuses
CC22-09-06 Getting Feedback After a Lost Deal
CC22-09-07 Never Quote Without the Quadrants
CC22-09-08 Proposals Should Be What Is Already Agreed
CC22-09-09 Dealing With Unexplained Delays
CC22-09-10 New Client Gave us One piece of business - How to get more
2022 August 03 - Coach's Corner
CC22-08-01 Addressing A Slow Sales Quarter to Employees
CC22-08-02 Disarming People Who Are Rude On A Cold Call
CC22-08-03 Following Up When Your Client Has Gone Silent
CC22-08-04 What To Do When Your Colleague Isn’t Following The Quadrants
CC22-08-05 Navigating The Quadrants When A Client Chose A Competitor Who Hasn't Delivered
CC22-08-06 How To Keep The Door Open With A Client Who Chose A Competitor
2022 July 06 - Coach's Corner
CC22-07-01 Shifting The Conversation From Information to the Quadrants
CC22-07-02 Best Use of the Client Vision Pyramid
CC22-07-03 Getting Your Client To Be Open Minded When They Think They Know It All
CC22-07-04 How to Determine Pricing With Undefined New Projects
CC22-07-05 Making It Beyond The Gatekeeper
CC22-07-06 How to Revise Pricing With Clients
CC22-07-07 Becoming More Confident Cold Calling
CC22-07-08 How to Follow Up Without Begging
CC22-07-09 When A New Executive Wants To Review Your Services
CC22-07-10 Aligning The Client Vision Pyramid With New Executives
CC22-07-11 Aligning Independent Sales Reps With Your Sales Process
2022 June 01 - Coach's Corner
CC22-06-01 How to Know When A Client Is Invested & A Good Fit
CC 22-06-02 Best Way To Build Connections on LinkedIn
CC 22-06-03 How to Follow Up Without Sounding Desperate
CC22-06-04 How To Go From Cold Outreach To Scheduling A Meeting
CC22-06-05 How To Stay Within The Quadrants & Avoid The Pitch
CC22-06-06 What To Do If The Client Is Spoon-feeding Information
CC22-06-07 How To Maintain A Relationship If The Client Isn't A Good Fit
CC22-06-08 Going From A 6 Month Sales Cycle to 30 Days
CC22-06-09 How To Recover When Your Client Doesn’t Show Urgency
CC22-06-10 How To Fast Track Clients Without An RFP
CC22-06-11 Leading with Client Values to Determine Good Fit
CC22-06-12 How to Recover From A Client Who Had Bad Experience With Another Employee
2022 May 04 - Coach's Corner
CC22-05-01 Quadrants - The keys to success for new team members
CC22-05-02 NOT using the quadrants can be uncomfortable
CC22-05-03 All Roads Lead to the Same Side Quadrants
CC22-05-04 How to Help Clients Get In Touch with Urgency
CC22-05-05 Getting to the Truth or Hearing What We Want to Hear
CC22-05-06 How to Structure Comp Plans to Share Accounts for Successful Reps
CC22-05-07 Pique Curiosity and Earn Attention To Uncover Differentiation
CC22-05-08 Prior Performance is Impacting a Current Opportunity
CC22-05-09 Frame Questions to Help Clients Make Decisions
CC22-05-10 Help Your Clients Get Results from Vendors That Had Problems
CC22-05-11 Top Focus Areas for New Same Side Selling Participants
2022 April 06 - Coach's Corner
CC22-04-01 Can They Afford the Engaged Level of the Client Vision Pyramid
CC22-04-02 Buy by Committee and Decide by Matrix - Strategies for Success
CC22-04-03 Wisdom About Selling Trust and Agreements
CC22-04-04 What Should Go Into a Proposal
CC22-04-05 Additional Resources in the Same Side Selling Academy
CC22-04-06 Working with Gatekeepers or Consultants in the Sales Process
CC22-04-07 Same Side Quadrants - What You Can Discover
CC22-04-08 How to Follow Up When They Went from Excited to Ghosting
CC22-04-09 What To Do When You Forgot to Use the Quadrants
CC22-04-10 What We Learn from Lack of Urgency
2022 March 02 - Coach's Corner
CC22-03-01 They Went From Interested to Ghosting Us
CC22-03-02 Using DISARM to Build Trust and Shorten the Sales Cycle
CC22-03-03 Strategies for Handling Accounts That Keep You in the Dark
CC22-03-04 I Play Golf With My Current Vendor
CC22-03-05 Warning Signs for Deals
CC22-03-06 How Sellers Trap Themselves as a Commodity
CC22-03-07 Tradeshows - The Best Way to Follow Through
CC22-03-08 How to Differentiate When You Are Not the Cheapest
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