#1 Question to Jump-Start Sales Opportunities for the New Year

by PAUL CHERRY one comment January 3, 2014 modified on: June 29, 2018

A fresh new decade deserves a fresh new set of surefire sales questions to energize your sales approach and motivate your customers to grow their business. Jump-start your sales opportunities with this question:

How are you going to differentiate and set yourself apart from other competitors clamoring for the same opportunities?

This seems like a simple question, but you’d be amazed at the floodgates it can open for an ambitious customer who won’t settle for keeping things status quo.

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One response to “#1 Question to Jump-Start Sales Opportunities for the New Year”

Sue E. says:

November 16, 2014 at 4:12 pm

whatever happened to they year 2013. flew by!

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