Results for Author: Rachel Smith

You Could Be Getting a Lot More Out of Conferences—Part 2: More Pre-Conference Preparation

Rachel Smith

May 11, 2022

So you’ve honed your message and identified prospects? Congrats. Keep going with pre-drafted cadences, ready-to-go gifts, and deconflicting strategies.

You Do Not Have a Lizard Brain (But Your Brain Is Like a Lizard’s)

Rachel Smith

April 27, 2022

Snap at your partner for no reason? Feel like punching someone in the throat? “Lizard brain” is that ancient vestige inside all of us that doesn’t respond to facts or logic. There’s just one problem.

Sales News, April 2022

Rachel Smith

April 20, 2022

This month’s latest is all about myth-busting.

If Communication Is 93 Percent Nonverbal, How Are You Understanding This Blog?

Rachel Smith

April 13, 2022

What someone learns from body language and vocal cues is important, but we’re not going to sub in interpretive dance for discovery calls anytime soon.

Your Attention Span Is Fine (So Is Your Goldfish’s)

Rachel Smith

April 06, 2022

Be careful of falling for catchy internet “facts”—hook, line, and sinker—and letting them guide your company’s sales strategy.

When Bias Takes the Wheel, Watch Out

Rachel Smith

March 30, 2022

Cognitive biases work together to create nine bias traps that affect decision-making. Escaping them requires prediction, intentionality, premortems, and a little less storytelling.

Beware the Curse of Knowledge

Rachel Smith

March 23, 2022

Once you’re familiar with a concept, it can feel like that concept should come easily to everyone. Not true. Cut it out with the acronyms already.

Sales News, March 2022

Rachel Smith

March 16, 2022

This month’s latest is all about bias.

Don’t Let That Anchor Hold You Down (Or Why I Wear Long Pants Until June)

Rachel Smith

March 09, 2022

An anchoring bias makes it nearly impossible to look at something fresh. But you have to free yourself from it, whatever it takes–a second opinion, a red team–because otherwise you’ll drown.

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