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How to Make Prospects Open Up Without Feeling Pressured | Charles Muhlbauer
30 Minutes to President's Club11 Mar 202537 min
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🎁 Save $50 — Get our step-by-step discovery video course for just $249 with code PODCAST https://www.30mpc.com/course/discovery-course -- ACTIONABLE TAKEAWAYS: Use Humbling Disclaimers: Preface tough questions with softening statements like, “I’m not quite sure how to ask this,” or “This might feel direct.” It lowers defensiveness and makes hard questions land better. Dig Into Prospect Rumblings: Prospects often hint at problems rather than state them outright. Listen for vague concerns and use a humbling disclaimer to drill deeper into the real issue. Refine Bucket Questions: Instead of stating, “Every CRO faces these three problems,” add nuance: “Many CROs I speak with mention challenges like…” This avoids defensiveness and keeps the conversation open. Follow a Clear Flow: Get permission to ask questions, surface problems without assumptions, prompt for real examples, then use humbling disclaimers to quantify impact without making prospects uncomfortable. CHARLES' PATH TO PRESIDENTS CLUB Founder @ DiscoveryCoach.io Sales Enablement Manager @ AlphaSense Lead Revenue Enablement Manager @ CB Insights Senior Sales Training Manager @ CB Insights RESOURCES DISCUSSED Discovery Course Join our weekly newsletter Things you can steal 30MPC Training: 30mpc.com/training
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I just ask for permission to do it. So I might say, Armand, I appreciate everything you've shared with me. Would it be okay if I give you some context on how we might be able to help, and we could take it from there? Yeah. Great. Now I'm telling a story which you guys are very familiar with. You're reminding me of a client. “You can even mention who the client is, depending on if the prospect told you who their competitors are, and you can mention a client.” You're reminding me of this firm. They've been working with us for some time. The issues that they had were A, B, and C. The way we helped them is we built out this tool where they can find this information very, very quickly on these certain documents that they haven't seen before, they didn't know about.
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