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More Meetings Or Better Meetings?

Partners in Excellence

O Meetings are critical to achieving our performance goals! It is through these meeting, whether F2F, virtual, phone, that we engage our customers, helping them navigate their buying/problem solving process. So it stands to reason, that more meetings would drive higher levels of performance.

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How Your Sales Meeting Agenda Is Killing Your Deals

Iannarino

I was preparing to share my company’s slide deck, but before I could start, he told me to put it away. He also mentioned that getting the questions right would end up with him signing my contract. My client in Cincinnati stopped me from turning on my laptop. He had a list of questions for me.

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What Does Your Client Gain by Meeting with You?

Iannarino

I knew the salesperson would not have much to say when he started our call with, "how's it going," a dead giveaway that the conversation would be short. Sure enough, he followed up with "how's business?" then pivoted to "What is the biggest problem you have in your business right now?"

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Meet my research team: Gemini, ChatGPT, and Perplexity

Martech

I was completely sucked into the vision of typing in a simple request and Gemini or MS Copilot creating a meeting summary, action plan, and a visually compelling presentation all with the click of a button. I start by creating a requirements narrative that is often a mix of use case information and features. Review and Refine.

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Do Your People Look Forward To Meeting With You?

Partners in Excellence

If you are a manager, sit down, swallow hard, ask yourself this question: “Do your people actually look forward to meeting with you?” ” Perhaps ask yourself, “Do you look forward to meeting with your manager?” ” What if we changed our approach to these meetings? ” Gulp!

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The Only Two OKRs for Sales

Iannarino

The Gist: Sales is made up of two parts: Opportunity Creation and Opportunity Capture. Key Result One: Second meetings with target (prospective) clients. Key Result Two: Second meetings with existing clients to explore new initiatives. You may have noticed that I chose to count second meetings instead of first meetings.

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How to Make Your First Impression Impressive

Iannarino

Outdated approaches to sales, especially during first meetings, all but ensure a bad first impression. You’ve been pursuing your dream client for months and have finally convinced them to meet with you. Success in a first meeting all but ensures a second one. The Gist: You never get a second chance to make a first impression.

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