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7 Effective Sales Closing Techniques: How to Close More Deals in 2022

Jonathan Whistman Guest Columnist and Strategic Partner of Kinsey Management Closing is the culmination of all the time and resources your sales reps invest in clients over the sales cycle.  Hopefully, sales reps have primed the customer by addressing pain points, overcoming objections, and clearly displaying the value of your product or service. Then, all that remains is to go in for the close and secure the contract. But closing isn’t as easy as extending your arm for a handshake and sliding a contract across the table.  “Sales closing is binary by nature. You either close the deal or you

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AI

Ten Ways to Reduce Bias in Virtual Hiring

Poor, biased hiring selections due to vague ‘intuition’ and face-value likeability are an unimaginable waste of time and money. All other efforts are in vain when a company suffers from subpar job performance and high turnover. The solution is relying on objective assessments, sound logic, and reasoning to reliably find and appoint genuinely distinguished, suitable people.

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AI

How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Recruiting

In sales, the competition to find and win over the most skillful sellers is as consequential a priority as any.  The revenue-producing power of the most capable salespeople can fuel entire sales forces and companies to the next level.  To locate, engage, and hire more of those hard-to-find game-changers, hiring managers and recruiters must be keenly perceptive and compete with other potential employers for top candidates’ attention. 

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