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Aligning Sales and Marketing to Go from ‘Just Dating’ to ‘Happily Married’

CNA’s Emily Hathcoat launched a sales and marketing therapy session that promised tabloid-worthy confessions. Here is how she set the stage: “If you were to give your marketing and sales teams a relationship score, what would it be? Is it …

The Unpleasantness of Selling and Buying Insurance

Do you have a minute to talk about your death? It isn’t easy to sell life insurance. Investing in a mutual fund, you feel like you’re saving money. Purchasing insurance, you feel like you’re spending it. “It’s not a pleasant …

Buyer Facilitation VS Selling

Your Sales iQ By David Connolly Buyer Facilitation VS Selling What’s the difference? Buyer facilitation is helping prospects discover for themselves why they should do business with us. Selling is telling them why they should do business with us. The …

The Word Strategy

Will Rogers said “it aint so much the things we know that get us in trouble, it’s the things we know that aint so.” Truer words have never been spoken about one of the most abused words in our vocabulary. …

The Truth About The Competition

Say what you will about the competition- Just don’t say anything bad. The cardinal rule about not bad mouthing the competition is both virtuous, and professional. Knocking the competition usually backfires, and creates a negative impression on the person throwing …

iQ Universal Truth #3 – The Rules of The Insurance Game

iQ Universal Truth #3 The Rules of The Insurance Game One way to look at the competitive arena of insurance sales is to view it as a game. Going in with this attitude lessens the impact of a loss, and …

Series: Natural laws as they apply to sales

The natural laws which rule our universe are explained through physics, mathematics, chemistry, and other disciplines. These include Einstein’s theory of relativity, Kepler’s laws on planetary motion, and Newton’s and laws on gravitation. There is another group of natural laws …