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Shadow Pipeline – accounting for the missing dollars

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Projecting those dollars that are showing up in proposal volume as a possible percentage of wins (based on historical win rates) is one way to account for this year’s impact. Depending on your sales force and their comfort with your CRM system you may see some of these “fly in” proposals. Tweet This! Share this on Facebook.

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Book Review: SNAP Selling

Webbiquity

You have a dozen people to follow up with on the phone, three meetings, and a proposal that needs to be finished…Rather than take a break for lunch, you grab a quick sandwich at the vending machine and eat it at your desk. When you look at your to-do list, you wonder how you’ll be able to get everything done. Share this on Bebo.

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Blog Writing Tips for Business Clarity

Writing on the Web

Although these tips are designed for business professionals who write reports, proposals, presentations and memos, they are totally applicable to blog writing. This weekend I was reviewing some books on business writing, including Harvard Business Review’s Guide to Better Business Writing. What do you think, is this helpful?

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How to Sell, Even if You Hate Selling

Webbiquity

Consultants asked questions, prospects shared needs, consultants proposed a solution, and off they went together to new engagement honeymoon bliss. • ‘Sales’ was a dirty word. . • Buyers came to consultants with needs. Consultants followed a traditional consultative selling approach (after all, they are consultants). Share this on Bebo.

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What Drives Us? 4 Keys to Creating Compelling Content

Writing on the Web

These two incredibly smart professors propose a theory of four fundamental motivations at the heart of all human behavior. Recently, I came across a fascinating book I read 10 years ago, based on evolutionary biology, sociology, and psychology: Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices by Paul R. Lawrence and Nitin Noria.

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How Consultants Who Aren’t “Natural Born Sellers” Can Still Sell Successfully

Webbiquity

The same skills you use to get to the root of your clients’ problems and develop solutions to help them meet their goals are the ones you can use to uncover prospects’ needs and propose winning solutions. You just need to recognize what you need to do and bring these skills out at the right time and in the right way. Share this on Bebo.

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30 Consulting Buzzwords that Work (and Don't Work) in Conversation

Hubspot

In fact, if most of your proposed changes for a company are small enough that they don’t need executive buy-in, there’s a good chance you’re thinking too small. Proposed solutions. Noel Diggs says. Remember, a good slide deck should describe: What you do as a consultant. The problem that the company faces (show you understand).