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10 essential soft selling skills to develop in 2013

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Whiteboard sketch connecting listening, diagnosis, value, trust and commitment
Listening, diagnosis, value, trust, commitment.

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A question worth asking

What part of your selling practice is worth testing, and what result would make the test useful?

A small experiment

Choose one repeatable action for the week, record your starting point and review the outcome before changing another variable.

Treat this as a test, not a proven result. Note the context, what you changed and what happened.

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