If you’ve been forced to cut back on travel and in-person meetings, web-based presentations are even more important than ever.
If you’re used to doing business face-to-face by now you’ve probably adapted to repackage your sales pitch into a virtual presentation.
It seems everyone from large corporations to the local yoga instructor are turning to this new way of doing business.
Working remotely, and using video and web conferencing, is not going away any time soon.
If anything, it looks like it could become the new normal.
If you’ve moved from a busy office to working remotely from home, feeling isolated can be a very real issue.
Working In Isolation
As more of us are working remotely in our businesses we’re all facing many more challenges.
- Keeping ourselves productive, disciplined, proactive and determined.
- Maintaining the right mindset and staying on top of things in spite of everything that’s going on in the world.
- Being resourceful, finding workarounds, and finding different ways of connecting with our clients.
- Perfecting our telephone and video conferencing skills; learning how to present ourselves professionally over the phone and video conferencing, and to get our message across with clarity and bring about a successful outcome.
- Upskilling our sales strategies and techniques is really important, as well as our approach on how we can develop deeper, more meaningful connections and have effective strategy calls and sales conversations.
Building quality relationships has always been the key to success in life and business.
But have you noticed how this global crisis is changing how we do business in more ways than one?
It’s pleasing to see so many companies letting go of the business-first mentality in favour of becoming more people-first orientated.
That’s just how it should be in my book.
Sales is and has always been a people business.
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