Archive for Tag: #professionaldevelopment

Three lessons on risk taking in selling from the Papal visit

Risk-taking comes with the sales territory; it is inevitable if the seller is to grow The Pope was in town several years ago. The Catholic faithful brought Nairobi to a standstill. The last time a religious event experienced that much hype was the beatification (first time I ever heard that word) of Sr. Irene Stefani

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Simplicity is king when selling

“When I first heard about the cloud, I thought the information was held somewhere in the skies.” I was told this by the CEO of a thriving IT solutions firm. If you know what ‘the ‘cloud’, in computer terminology, means, you must be laughing. Don’t! That’s how you lose sales. By assuming buyers know, and

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Master the 5 Rs of delivering a successful presentation

Over the years, as a firm we have sieved Delivering A Successful Presentation into five tips; representation, repertoire, research, rehearsal and repetition. This happened in my infancy stage as a life insurance agent. I had just landed my biggest prospect to date. I was now in his office, this chief engineer of a multinational firm. After

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