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When Selling, Ask Questions, Rank Your Prospects … and Listen!

Emerson Consulting Group

Too often otherwise good sales reps fail because they just haven’t learned to stop talking and start listening. The objective of basic sales questions is to identify what your prospect actually wants. By asking more questions and listening even more, you can take any sales conversation to a higher level. By Ken Lizotte CMC.

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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business

Through a coordinated, systemic, prolonged intervention with dozens of institutions and thousands of individual participants, new growth of the local companies we trained has directly created over 1033 jobs, fueled by dozens of new private sector financings. The average participant in the first cohort has actually doubled its sales.

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How Companies Are Already Using AI

Harvard Business

And in January 2017, McKinsey’s research arm estimated AI-driven job losses at 5%. So that year, AP began working with an AI firm to train software to automatically write short earnings news stories. “Machine-to-machine” transactions are the low-hanging fruit of AI, not people-displacement.

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What to Do When Your Heart Isn’t in Your Work Anymore

Harvard Business

According to a 2017 Gallup survey , only one-third of U.S. I see and hear examples of career malaise all the time — in my work teaching and training people in companies, in discussions following my corporate talks, and in conversations with my family and friends. More people fit this profile than you’d think.

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Why Write and Publish Business Articles? For 5 Good Reasons!

Emerson Consulting Group

Published articles are high-level sales tools. Retirement benefits thoughtleader Dan Cassidy makes it a practice to show up at every sales meeting with a briefcase filled with reprints of his many published articles. Sales of your book increase as a result. Publishing articles can lead actually WRITING to a book!

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11 Best Consulting Blogs: Read These Blogs To Grow Your Consultancy

Tsavo Neal

Rather than blogs focused on a particular consulting industry, I’m listing blogs that are focused on business development, marketing, and sales for consultants and independent professionals. ” Must read articles from Professional Services Marketing Today: 2017 High Growth Study – Research Summary.

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business

But Rogier thought it was the key to boosting engagement and performance, and he had hinted that he might use Contect’s 2017 annual all-employee meeting—his chance to announce new goals and celebrate the previous year’s accomplishments—to roll out the change. And here’s to an even better 2017!”