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100 Skills of the Successful Sales Professional
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100 Skills of the Successful Sales Professional

by Alex Dripchak
June 2021
Beginner
216 pages
3h 56m
English
Business Expert Press
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CHAPTER 9

20 to 11: Standing Out as a Consistent, Top Performer

20. Summarizes Effectively

Any sales presentation ever, what’s your role? To open and to close. What do they share in common for skillsets? Summary. It’s a short attention span world out there (as shown by the fact I’m writing 1 to 2 pages about 100 skills and incorporating over 25 different bestselling books) and you’re the one who needs to keep it on track. How? Well, for starters, pay attention. Every word said, every gesture made; every hair curled, fingernail bit, toe tapped—you’re responsible. Exhausting? Yes. But, it is your job.

Subject matter experts (SMEs) are there to go into detail about a client’s issues and their SMEs are there to probe, question, and most of all, showoff. ...

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ISBN: 9781637420638