Archive for Category: Pitching/Presenting

Adapt your Zoom presentation to virtual audience

Listening and reading are wildly different forms of consuming content. So are physical and virtual audiences. Therefore, presentation to virtual audience must be adapted accordingly You’ve just sat down to watch the 7’oclock news on NTV. The newscaster comes on. He is holding that day’s Daily Nation. Your face spells, “Huh?” Then you smile. It

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Sales lessons from online sellers in time of COVID-19

Lessons from online sellers in time of COVID-19. Respect the importance of prospecting. The activities that lead to a sale offline are different from that online. Once upon a time there were two ‘stall sellers’. One had a shop right at the entrance of the building that housed them, and the other’s shop was at

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Three tips on grooming for the novice seller

Ugali for breakfast will keep you pulsating late into the afternoon and looking fresh with every client visit. Here are three tips on grooming for the novice seller. To begin with though, being a beginner seller is no excuse not to look presentable. Looks matter in selling. How the seller looks could determine how the

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Handle historical injustices by owning them

Caused by you or another seller, deliberately or not, it doesn’t matter. Handle historical injustices by owning them Historical injustice is a past moral wrong committed by people, now dead, that has a lasting impact on the well-being of people in present day. In Kenya, we are more familiar with the term in relation to

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How do I stand out in sales? Show value

Stand out in sales. Unfortunately, the average seller, doesn’t focus on the buyer’s need preferring instead to dwell on his Instead of standing in line with your product differentiation, stand apart with your selling. The former has a limited shelf life before it is copied, or bettered. In any case customers don’t buy what your

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Four reasons why you sell for yourself and not the employer

There is something magical about a buyer seller connection that accelerates the sale. Dear Seller, You are not making that sale for your employer; you are making it for yourself. The employer is secondary. Rid yourself of the mentality that the sale is the employer’s problem.It limits your performance; itgets you going in fits and

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For more sales spend half your time with buyers

This way, he has you top on his mind which incidentally, he doesn’t. His focus is on his job, not yours. Time management is a huge challenge for most sellers. Interestingly, they doesn’t see it that way but instead lament that, “I have too much to do.” And it’s easy to see why. Most sellers

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