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A Sample Chapter of Seal the Deal: The Essential Mindsets for Growing Your Professional Services Business

A Sample Chapter of Seal the Deal: The Essential Mindsets for Growing Your Professional Services Business

Suzi Pomerantz August 9, 2011 0

Click the red button at the bottom of the page to download the free sample chapter (first 70 pages of the book). Click the cover image to the right under Our Sponsors to purchase

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Assessment Instruments to be Used in Conjunction with Professional Coaching: A Resource List

Assessment Instruments to be Used in Conjunction with Professional Coaching: A Resource List

William Bergquist August 25, 2011 0

The instruments in this document have been presented to illustrate the broad range of resources that are available for instrument-based coaching and to point to several places where an organizational coach might turn when

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Distinguishing Networking, Marketing, and Sales

Distinguishing Networking, Marketing, and Sales

Suzi Pomerantz August 17, 2011 0

This article includes a chart that shows you how to distinguish between networking, marketing and sales, the key terms of business development. ©2005. Suzi Pomerantz, Innovative Leadership International LLC. All rights reserved. Excerpted from

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Elements of Successful Client Meetings

Elements of Successful Client Meetings

Suzi Pomerantz August 16, 2011 0

This outline serves as a checklist for you when planning your sales meeting with a prospective client. Excerpted from Seal the Deal. Download attached outline by clicking or right clicking red button below. I.

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Google Buzz? That Stings!

Google Buzz? That Stings!

Shama Kabani August 29, 2011 0

After tons of emails asking me about my thoughts on Google Buzz, I thought I’d share them here. Google Buzz is a VERY bad idea. Why

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Handling Objections

Handling Objections

Suzi Pomerantz August 16, 2011 0

It’s frustrating to call your prospects and hear all their smokescreens and reasons for why they can’t become a client now. This article lists strategies for handling objections. ©Suzi Pomerantz. All rights reserved.  Excerpted

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IDEA LISTS: Visioning, Networking, Marketing, Sales

IDEA LISTS: Visioning, Networking, Marketing, Sales

Suzi Pomerantz August 15, 2011 0

This marketing tool is a brainstorm kick-start, listing ideas you can try in the business development domains of Visioning, Networking, Marketing, and Sales. One way to write down what you want for your business

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Initial Prospective Client Meeting Success Strategies: Sample Client Meeting Interview Questions

Initial Prospective Client Meeting Success Strategies: Sample Client Meeting Interview Questions

Suzi Pomerantz August 16, 2011 0

I consult this list to prepare for my first meeting with a new client so all my attention is then directed at listening

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Key Guidelines to Grow Your Business by Referrals

Key Guidelines to Grow Your Business by Referrals

Suzi Pomerantz August 15, 2011 0

You can build your entire business through referrals, and never have to make a cold call. Referrals require active relationship management, so that you are continually planting the seeds by sharing with everyone that

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Lessons Learned Meetings: Checklist to Guide the Conversation with Clients

Lessons Learned Meetings: Checklist to Guide the Conversation with Clients

Suzi Pomerantz August 16, 2011 0

The Lessons Learned Meeting is a structured interview with your clients and key decision-makers in the organization that takes place in the middle of the engagement as well as at the end

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