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7 Surefire Ways to Win Over Clients

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7 Surefire Ways to Win Over Clients

Obscenely simple deck from Micah Slavens from his talk about working well with clients.

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November 15, 2013

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Transcript

  1. CLIENTS 7 SURE FIRE SECRETS - - TO WIN OVER

  2. Why do we need ‘em? ?

  3. Obvious, eh? $

  4. Clients Customers Users Investors = PEOPLE

  5. Ways we deal with people? ?

  6. sales delivery retention growth

  7. sales

  8. delivery

  9. retention

  10. growth

  11. ?

  12. $%*!@&!

  13. 1Learn to listen if you want to be heard #

  14. 2Leave your personal agenda at home #

  15. 3Balance confidence with humility #

  16. 4Find common ground #

  17. 5Communicate frequently, clearly & honestly #

  18. 6 Deliver real value #

  19. 7Choose the right clients in the first place. #

  20. Now… go be awesome.