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Hello welcome to our blog page. You’ll find lots of blogs here about training, coaching, facilitation, personal and professional development, oh and some New Results news too.

We hope you enjoy them, please feel free to share and comment.

telephone, phone

Help! What’s the best way for phone based selling?

Phone based selling is an important part of many organisations overall sales strategy.

The phone acts as a quick and efficient way of having conversations with a number of prospective customers. From charities to aerospace engineers, we have had the opportunity to work with a huge spectrum…

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mine, linkedin, connections

How do I connect with more people on LinkedIn?

This is one a lot of people ask when we are delivering LinkedIn skills training or advising groups.

I have mentioned before that you need to have a clear understanding of why you use LinkedIn. If part of your goal is to build up your LinkedIn connections then read on, this is just for you.…

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crime, crime scene

Is your soft selling a crime?

Broken windows and soft selling. How do these fit together?

Let me explain. I have been rereading Malcolm Gladwells “The Tipping Point”; part of the book talks about the well-publicised broken windows theory that was first introduced by social scientists Read More


lego

It’s a day of choices

You get to choose the topic at NECC member showcase

Thanks to the Sunderland Echo and Journal for the two articles published last week. Nevil and Mike were presenting a seminar for the North East Chamber of Commerce and instead of them choosing the subject, the audience got to choose inste…

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donkey, game

Pin the customer on the journey

I was in my native county – Lancashire – earlier this month, delivering my keynote on the Psychology of Consumer Behaviour.  Hey, wake up at the back!  This is a bit different, though I admit that there’s a couple of pictures of a brain.

Anyway, part of my keynote examines where cu…

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deal, binding contract

But we ALWAYS lose deals on price

Do you position your price effectively with customers?

Position the value of what you offer and how much value you can bring to your customers. Customers are far more interested in value than you might think. I say this because so many people we meet when we deliver seminars and training t…

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price

Do you know your price point in your market?

Our guest blog this week is from Barrie Tynemouth.

Earlier this week I went to the local barbers which had opened about 7 years previously, run by two local lads one of whose Italian grandfather h…

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hard work, working

I now know the meaning of hard work

Do I work hard? Yes I do (apart from the times when I don’t).

When I was employed throughout my sales and management career, did I work hard? You bet I did: winning awards, bringing major customers into the business, launching new products and developing new lines of business doesn’t h…

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LinkedIn

Top 5 mistakes on LinkedIn

Top 5 mistakes on LinkedIn (and how to avoid them).

LinkedIn is a powerful tool and we like LinkedIn a lot at New Results. We have looked into some of the most common mistakes that people make on LinkedIn. We have created a checklist and ideas to help you avoid…

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coaching

Keep your eye on the ball…useless or useful coaching advice?

I’m guessing you’ve either had this said to you at some point, or said it to someone else.

Seems pretty obvious advice, right?  But how do you check that someone is keeping their eye on the ball without using expensive eye-tracking equipment?

This is where coaching comes…

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Helpful resources...

We spend a lot of time researching our training courses and once we’ve found something useful we love to share it. So here’s some useful free resources for you to read, watch and use.

Resources:

Assessing Your Learning and Development Needs

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Building Trust in a Digital World

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Resources:

Your Networking Guide