Good Selling Radio in association with SalesFitness Group

Communications-led sales enablement - ep 1 - Intro

How sales, marketing and corporate communications can work together: A conversation between Richard Higham and Emily Luscombe

Key takeaways:

• The need to operate in a rapidly changing world.
• The importance of selling value rather than selling commodities.
• The focus on awareness, consideration, engagement, and conversion in communications campaigns.
• How sales, marketing and corporate communications interact in the funnel

Tactics & Bargaining: Negotiation series episode 6

Key Takeaways:

• Work together and prepare as a team
• Likely bargaining tactics and how to counter them
• Non-verbal communication

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Relationship Goals: Negotiation Series episode 5

Key Takeaways:

• Transactional negotiations in a relationship context
• Be clear about your wider relationship goals
• Don’t win the battle but lose the war

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Moving forward: Negotiation Series episode 4

Key Takeaways:

• Clear agreement on what has been agreed.
• Follow up fast.
• Keep the initiative

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Form your offer: Negotiation series episode 3

Key Takeaways:

• List your components
• Identify fixed and variable components and analyse movement and cost/value
• Draw up entry and exit points

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Create context - prepare the ground: Negotiation Series episode 2

Key Takeaways:

• Build trust
• Understand the personalities and style of the people
• Understand their positions and interests
• Pre-position yourself

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Create context - Assess the situation: Negotiation series episode 1

Key Takeaways:

• Understand the likely zone of agreement
• Explore the options for both parties
• Identify the implications of “no”
• Read the balance of power

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Gaining client commitment - Quick Thoughts Series Ep 8

Key Takeaways

1. Be clear about the commitments you are looking for to move things forward.
2. Be clear about how you will get these commitments
3. Never leave a meeting without a commitment to the next step

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Understanding the customer - Quick Thoughts Series Ep 7

Four key skills:

1. Create openness
2. Ask good questions
3. Listen
4. Summarise

 

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The first 5 minutes of a face-to-face meeting - Quick Thoughts Series Ep 6

Key takeaways:

1. The things that are easy to do are easy not do!
2. A quick checklist
3. Reflect and re-plan

 

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