Have you ever been in a live meeting where the presenter rarely took their eyes off their slides, looked down most of the time, or never quite made direct eye contact with you? This is the equivalent of what your customer experiences when you fail to look them in the

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It’s not your imagination. Relationship-selling has taken a big hit this last year. Those in-person interactions with customers provided valuable shared experiences and opportunities to read and share a full range of expressions and emotions. Relationship-Selling According to Harvard According to The Harvard Business Review (HBR), building new relationships has

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It’s not your imagination. Virtual audiences are notoriously passive.  Not only is this uncomfortable for a presenter, but it’s also ineffective, especially in sales. The most successful sales calls include a high level of interaction between the seller and the buyer. In fact, in their analysis of 67,149 demos, Gong.io

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Actors and other on-camera professionals cheat all the time. Cheat for the camera, that is! They “cheat” the camera by positioning their body, face, and/or voice more towards the camera for the benefit of their audience – even if it may feel unnatural or a bit awkward. This performance technique

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How to Open a Virtual Meeting Got ONE MINUTE? And want to know the ONE THING you can do to immediately improve your connection with your customer and increase interaction on virtual sales calls? Always start with full video. 90% of the salespeople I coach are making the mistake of

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May I have your attention, please?! … Gosh, if only it were that easy! I’m sorry to say that virtual interaction rarely happens on its own. Meaning that, as the salesperson, it is your responsibility to create both the desire and the opportunity for your customer to easily interact with

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According to Gartner, 80% of B2B sales are expected to take place virtually by 2025. Don’t believe me?! Check out their projections here. Very few sellers I know will be applauding this news. Here’s why: we are only one year into the pandemic and virtual sales calls and meetings have

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Maintain eye contact 2/3 of the time, experts have always said.  But that figure is based on in-person communication. But on video, that percentage should be closer to the 80-85% mark! Why Do You Need More Eye Contact on Video? When in-person – whether that be your office, a shared

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Stanford University recently published an interesting study on the causes of ‘Zoom Fatigue.’ Researchers identified four main causes, one being: *Excessive amounts of close-up eye contact is highly intense While I don’t disagree with the study’s overall conclusion, I do disagree with the advice springing up around it suggesting people

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Virtual selling may have your team reaching for the panic button – customers are different, technology is changing by the minute, and competition is as stiff as ever. When a marketplace changes so dramatically, sales leadership so too must change/adapt and prepare for sales calls in an entirely different manner.

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