A Sales Guy

JANUARY 25, 2014

My favorite suit was worn, energy was high, and I enthusiastically greeted my prospective client. He began shouting that the contract previously agreed upon was unfair and that he wouldn’t sign it. One day she was approached by someone who asked to be her client although there was a feeling of uncertainty about the arrangement.

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Clients Prospecting Repeat business Referrals 115

Search Engine Land

JULY 11, 2024

In this article, I’ll share some tips on: Keeping clients happy. You’re often expected to work miracles quickly, trying to keep clients happy. These clients often pay budgets that are too low and won’t sign up for lengthy retainers. You need to face the harsh reality of SEO: Clients will churn.

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Account management Clients Contract Start-ups 76

Hubspot

DECEMBER 12, 2019

If you have, you’ve consulted with them. If you’re passionate about helping others succeed by providing niche expertise that’s been honed by years of education, experience, and skill development, a career consulting may be for you. We’ve compiled this guide to dig deeper into the wild, lucrative world of consulting.

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Consult Healthcare Niche Management Consulting 96

Sales Pop!

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In consulting with organizations selling into the enterprise space, I’ve often encountered start-up organizations that lack healthy lists of current accounts. Those, of course, are the ones for which your probabilities of successful delivery, healthy margins and robust client satisfaction are highest. And what’s the business risk?

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Contract Up-sell Represent Clients 227

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

As self-employment rates continue to reach new heights , terms like contractor, consultant, and freelancer have become more commonplace. Here, we'll explore the role of contractors and consultants, and pinpoint the differences between the two. What is a consultant? You can think of consultants as problem solvers.

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Consult Contract Construction Finance 74

Veloxy

JUNE 21, 2021

If you sell IT services, your cold calls could and should be different than a financial services consultant. If the customer is a business, this may include new clients, new hires, new contracts, etc. Clients have shared their past troubles with similar competitive solutions—low adoption, low ROI. Prospect: Sure.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Consulting is never structured arbitrarily. You don't see many clients give their consultants carte blanche, a blank check, no timeline, vague goals, and the flexibility to spill company secrets to whoever they feel like. Clients and consultants can't work on different wavelengths. Let's jump in. Scope of Work.

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Consult Contract Legal Government 69

Search Engine Land

AUGUST 5, 2024

Have you ever felt like your brilliant SEO ideas are trapped in your head, struggling to gain traction with your team or clients? Maybe you work for an agency, and your client just wants to know the results, not what you’re doing. Your leadership team or your client may fully trust you to get the right work done.

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Objectives and Key Results Clients Strategize Contract 85

Hubspot

AUGUST 27, 2024

According to the Boston Consulting Group, value perception is vital, and sellers can foster goodwill with buyers by holding or lowering prices on key value items (KVIs) and categories. AI pricing helps to maximize revenue and profitability while ensuring that prices remain competitive and aligned with market trends.

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Price Profit margin Contract Retail 72

Hubspot

MAY 18, 2023

If you have a consulting practice, you need to curate credibility to help secure business. Consulting certificates can help. Having the right certification can put you at the top of the list for potential clients. Table of Contents Why do consulting certificates matter? 9 Essential Certificates for Consultants.

Consult 69

Consult Negotiate Education Management Consulting 69

Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

It’s an interesting time that we live in, but as I think about how long I’ve been in sales, sales management and consulting, it seems that for the last 25 years we’ve been on a steady climb to charge more for essentially the same product. And in the end, YOU are the product. You are the difference maker. But, what ELSE are you doing?

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Customers Price Contract Sales 191

Hubspot

JULY 22, 2020

Working as a consultant can be a tricky, uncertain game at points. It can be exhausting to bounce from client to client, charging an hourly rate without any guarantee of where your next payday is coming from. In many — if not most — cases, consultants charge on an hourly, daily, or project-based basis.

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Consult Price Clients Contract 77

PandaDoc

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Key Features: Workflow automation : set up who is on your team, what their role is, and hook integrations with your CRM, proposal management system, and contract management software. Professional services : consulting firms and other large, complex professional services with many moving parts in the contract process.

Legal 52

Legal Contract Cross-sell Finance 52

Search Engine Land

JUNE 13, 2024

Your manager just informed you that you have a new PPC client. Here are a few tips and tricks to help you impress your boss and absolutely nail that first meeting with your new client. Here are a few tips and tricks to help you impress your boss and absolutely nail that first meeting with your new client. How exciting!

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Clients Meeting Contract Start-ups 84

The 5% Institute

APRIL 27, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn five ways how to close a sale without being pushy, and with a consultative approach. If you’re leaving the opportunity to win the client completely at the end of your sales conversation – you’re potentially following an older methodology. Instead; we recommend that you use a new consultative style.

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Closing Consult Technique Sales 143

Hubspot

AUGUST 16, 2019

If a company doesn't have the resources to staff a social media team in-house, they aren't out of luck -- as an alternative, they can hire a social media consultant to help them increase their social media presence and grow traffic to their social accounts. How to Become a Successful Social Media Consultant. Network, network, network.

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Consult Networking Clients Lead generation 78

The 5% Institute

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Put simply; the soft close is asking for the sale without being pushy and maintaining rapport so that your potential client doesn’t feel like they’re being pushed into a corner. If you’re leaving the opportunity to win the client completely at the end of your sales conversation – you’re potentially following an older methodology.

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Closing Technique Consult Pitch 144

The 5% Institute

AUGUST 12, 2021

In this article, you’ll learn five ways how to ask for the order in a non-pushy and consultative approach. If you’re leaving the opportunity to win the client completely at the end of your sales conversation – you’re potentially following an older methodology. Instead; we recommend that you use a new consultative style.

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Technique Consult Closing Contract 145

Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In todayʼs competitive agency marketplace, itʼs more difficult than ever to stand out from the crowd and retain clients. As AdWeek reports, it’s not uncommon for small-to-medium-sized firms to see upwards of 40% client turnover year over year. Why clients break up with their agencies 2. The solutions to client churn 3.

Clients 90

Clients Objectives and Key Results Referrals Non-Profits 90

The 5% Institute

OCTOBER 24, 2021

If you’re leaving the opportunity to win the client completely at the end of your sales conversation – you’re potentially following an older methodology. Instead; we recommend that you use a new consultative style. Below are five excellent questions if you’re wishing to learn how to ask for the sale in a consultative way.

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Objectives and Key Results Consult Technique Closing 144

Sales Pop!

APRIL 11, 2024

Client Satisfaction. It can be an elusive target, though, given the typical focus in working to insure your products and services delivered to a client are the very best that they can be. Delivery excellence is critical but it’s simply one element of client satisfaction, albeit the one that receives the most attention.

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B2C Clients Contract Account management 130

Salesmate

JULY 8, 2020

In the digital marketing space, the simplest way to generate warm ready to buy leads is to offer a free consultation. Ultimately, this is the thing that the potential client cares about the most. It must be bespoke for each potential client and focus on their needs. Your proposal can double as a contract. Negotiation.

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Pipeline Negotiate Objectives and Key Results Contract 126

Sales Pop!

JANUARY 24, 2022

For example, suppose you want to introduce smart contracts. Choose a blockchain development company that offers consultation services. When evaluating a blockchain development firm, check whether it provides consultation services. You can find clients’ reviews on various platforms, such as LinkedIn and Clutch.co.

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Objectives and Key Results Consult Niche Contract 130

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

This means responding with greater flexibility, offering shorter billing cycles, subscription pauses, or creative discounts for longer contracts. Conversely, CPQ is the category that most heavily relies on vendor professional services teams and third-party consultants for the complete setup, due to the high degree of customization.

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Contract Sales Consult Represent 132

Martech

JUNE 10, 2024

They typically have large budgets, clients, workforces and product portfolios. Further, examine the contract to determine if you are paying for more support than you need. Larger product suites may also be better equipped to grow with the client’s evolving use cases. Adobe and Salesforce are two clear examples.

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Score More Sales

JULY 11, 2013

Ron and I would meet with various decision makers who were involved in a project that would involve thousands of the items we sold on one contract. The knowledge we could gain by asking open-ended questions made us true consultative partners with our Fortune 100 client. What clients do you need questions answered?

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PandaDoc

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Contract negotiation is essential for modern businesses, but it isn’t always easy. Let’s talk about contract negotiation in more depth. What is a contract negotiation? Contract negotiation is when two or more people discuss the current terms of a contract and come to a new, legally binding agreement.

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Contract Negotiate Legal Government 52

PandaDoc

MAY 28, 2024

Consultative selling offers a less pushy, customer-centric approach to the buyer’s journey. Read this guide to learn the ins and outs of consultative sales. Key takeaways Consultative sales is customer-centric and focuses on building relationships. Consultative selling requires empathy, active listening, and problem-solving.

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Consult Process Sell Pitch 52

Adaptive Business Services

JANUARY 1, 2025

However, take away one large contract, and it was mediocre at best. For my clients who I love! One large contract and very few new clients. However, I made up for that with additional support for existing clients. Lets look at each Verticals and Ideal Clients Im looking for solopreneurs and small sales teams.

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Referrals CRM Non-Profits Contract 62

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

But eventually, clients need to be found who want to buy these systems because they will have a positive impact on their business. This buying process was particularly nightmarish when bidding for contracts for projects to build a new system for a new service. Answering the RFQ was a project of several months.

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Customers Contract Consult Up-sell 139

Search Engine Land

APRIL 19, 2024

Here are some ways to set and manage expectations for PPC clients and agency teams. Outline expectations during the sales process Setting expectations at the beginning of a client engagement or project is crucial for success. Agree on what work will be performed What services will you be providing to the client? Be detailed.

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Contract Clients CRM Meeting 95

Sales Pop!

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Client for Life. But it’s when the contract is signed and when the wedding reception has ended that the real work begins. I’ve done a fair amount of consulting on the topic of client retention and I’ve morphed a quote about marriage into an enterprise selling version. Complacency has no place in either scenario.

Contract 130

Contract Networking Clients Up-sell 130

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

From referral and affiliate programs to consultants and agencies. In the tech world, massive enterprise companies have entire sales channel departments who sell outside technology solutions to their clients. IT consultant. Once you’ve had the meetings and you’ve signed the contract, the actual work will start.

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Commission Manufacturing Negotiate Contract 119

CloserIQ

JANUARY 28, 2019

These tools can integrate with an email client (like Gmail or Outlook) and track when a recipient has opened an email, clicked on a link, or opened an attachment. Look at tools such as these: Yesware (while running in the background of an email client, the software provides advice on how to handle each part of the sales cycle).

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Contract Represent Sales Presentation 94

Sales Pop!

APRIL 14, 2023

Proofs-of-Concept (POC’s) preview larger solutions through smaller, limited exercises, providing insights to the client into expertise and delivery capability. Every action will be tracked, with mistakes noted by the hovering presence of contracts and legal team members. High stakes? For sure……leading to high costs. Beware, indeed.

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Minimum Viable Product Legal Contract Price 130

Women Sales Pros

JANUARY 6, 2019

Open Window One: There’s a window of opportunity right after contract signature but before implementation where a lot can get accomplished. Accessing a key executive early in the contract is an important component of setting yourself up for future business. Seizing this window of receptivity post-contract is a smart move.

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Contract Strategize Consult Meeting 100

Martech

MARCH 31, 2023

“We run the business and provide quotes and consultations — but yes, you’re looking at the marketing department right here.” ’ Whereas if you have access to somebody, you hire them or contract out, they’re like, ‘Just send me the list and I’ll do everything else.'”

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