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How Your First Meeting Repels Your Prospective Client

Iannarino

The Gist: The way to a second meeting is a valuable first meeting. A lot of legacy practices prevent second meetings. You never get a second chance to make a first impression, which means you have a lot riding on your meeting with a new client. How to Avoid a Second Meeting. Low-Value Conversations.

Meeting 321
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Elevate Your Strategy with AI for Sales Prospecting

Veloxy

Let’s face it: if you’re still relying on old-school sales prospecting methods , you’re falling behind. The belief that human instinct and manual research are the best tools for finding prospects? Now, CEOs and Sales Executives need something sharper, faster, and more precise: AI for sales prospecting.

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How to Organize a Prospect List for Booking First Meetings

Iannarino

You always have open loops you need to close, like sending a new contact the case study they requested. It's important to be organized in sales. Or perhaps you owe another client an edited contract for a new offering they are interested in buying.

Meeting 286
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One-Up Prospecting

Iannarino

The One-Down salesperson uses an approach that causes their prospective client to recognize they aren't someone with the knowledge or experience to be a valuable partner. Asking "Is now a good time," or "Is now a bad time," or any other combination of words that are used to try to deceive the contact is the result of a lack of confidence.

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Everything Wrong with Prospecting

Iannarino

The Gist: We are increasingly choosing prospecting approaches that harm our professional relationships. The automation that claims to solve the problem of getting meetings causes the exact opposite outcome. We cannot continue to choose prospecting methods that destroy any possibility of a future relationship.

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The Single Reason You Can't Get a Meeting

Iannarino

To succeed in sales, you need to be able to acquire a first meeting. That is your audition, and your contact will decide whether you are worth a second meeting. If you cannot book a first meeting, it means your approach sends the message that meeting with you isn’t worth your contact’s time.

Meeting 259
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Getting Salespeople to Prospect When They Aren’t Prospecting

Understanding the Sales Force

More than a dozen years ago, when I was coaching Little League, I had two kids on my 9-year old team that never made contact with the ball. If they swung with their eyes open, and made any contact at all with the ball – even a foul tip – I would purchase them a video game of their choosing. I devised an incentive.