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Diagnose Before You React
You’re in a deal review. A rep walks you through an opportunity that they believed forecasted to close two weeks ago. The timeline slipped. The next step is vague. The buyer has gone quiet. You can feel where this is headed.Your questions get sharper. The direction gets more direct. A push for urgency shows up. From a leadership seat, it often gets labeled as a performance problem. Reacting before diagnosing turns different problems into the same response.More pressure. More reminders. More check-ins. Here’s how it shows up on the salesperson side: Follow-up frequency increases, but the approach doesn’t change.Another email…
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