Selling Skills for Professionals: Prospecting

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Course Description
Course Qualification
Presenter
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Course Description

Overview

Agenda for selling skills for professionals

4 mins
People buy emotionally, not rationally

12 mins
Branding yourself

18 mins
Defining the criteria for your prospects

29 mins
Preparing materials for prospecting

43 mins
Making the approach

63 mins
Moving prospects to the next stage

79 mins

Course Description

Selling Skills for Professionals covers high involvement purchases where the commitment is a significant one for the purchaser. This covers relatively expensive business investments, but also purchase agreements that the purchaser feels will have a significant impact on their business – for example engaging an accountant or a lawyer, or a management consultant, and so on.

With a high involvement purchase, the client typically will consider a range of alternatives; will review a variety of information sources; and will evaluate product and service attributes in detail. This means that there is a relatively high barrier to surmount to get the potential client’s attention. A solid approach to prospecting and a well-structured sales process can increase that conversion rate and enhance your success in securing clients who will remain with you for the long term.

The speaker Ross Maynard in this CPE/CPD marketing webinar will cover prospecting, that is identifying potential future clients and making the initial approach.

Learning Objectives

To describe the scope and purpose of sales prospecting for professional services.
To analyze the five rules of selling professional services.
To develop a branding statement for themselves and their organization.
To define the criteria for the clients they wish to target.
To appreciate the importance of client pain points and how to identify them.
To prepare materials for prospecting.
To create a cold calling script for prospecting.
To write a cold email or LinkedIn message to prospects including a strong subject line.
To discuss the sorts of questions they can use to stimulate client engagement in a discussion.
To move prospects onto the next stage of the selling process.

Recommended For

This online webinar is recommended for all the CPAs, CMAs, and other professionals in the industry as well as in practice who need to identify and develop new clients.
This CPD course is recommended for Canadian CPAs who want to identify and maintain potential future clients.

Who Should Attend?

Accountant
Accounting Firm
Bookkeepers & Accountants & Tax Preparers
CPA (Industry)
CPA - Mid Size Firm
CPA - Small Firm
Staff of Accounting Firm
Young CPA

Course Qualification

Webinar Qualifies For

2 General Credit of Communications & Marketing for Accountant/Bookkeeper/Tax Professionals
2 CPD Credit of Communication for Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA Canada)
2 CPE Credit of Communications & Marketing for Certified Public Accountants (CPA-US)
2 CPD Credit for CA - ICAEW
2 CPD Credit for Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
2 CPD Credit for Chartered Accountants - Ireland (CAI)
2 CPD Credit for Chartered Accountants - Scotland
2 CPD Credit for CPA - Ireland
2 CPE Credit of Communications & Marketing for Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE)
2 CPE Credit for Certified Government Financial Manager (CGFM)
2 CE Credit for Certified Wealth Strategist (CWS)
2 CE Credit for Certified Fiduciary & Investment Risk Specialist (CFIRS)
2 CPE Credit for Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
2 PDC Credit of Business Acumen for SHRM Professionals (Approval No. 22-7XRWT)
2 RCH Credit of Business for Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI) (Approval No. 598208)

Additional details

Course Level :

Basic
Credits :

2
Instructional Method :

QAS Self Study
Pre-requisites :

None
Advance Preparation :

None

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Presenter

About Presenter

Ross Maynard

Managing Director, Ideas2Action Process Excellence Ltd

My philosophy is to inspire, challenge and support change. I have nearly 30 years’ experience as a business author and consultant.

As a consultant, I specialise in process improvement based on the Lean philosophy. I facilitate improvement teams and provide expertise in performance measurement and management; problem solving; and process improvement.

As well as delivering webinars for MyCPE, I develop courses and webinars for the ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) in the UK and other specialist business and finance providers.

I live in Scotland, near Glasgow, with my wife, daughter and Cocker Spaniel.

About Company

Ideas2Action Process Excellence Ltd

www.ideas2action.co.uk/

Ideas into Action was founded in 1997 by Ross Maynard. Ross is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants with over 20 years experience in organisational development with organisations of all sizes. The business is incorporated as Ideas2Action Process Excellence Ltd, registration number SC523801. We specialise in process analysis and improvement and lean finance, offering training, consultancy and facilitation of process improvement teams.

Ross is author of “Successful Business Growth” published by Hodder and Stoughton, in 1998; as well as many published articles on business improvement and lean management. Ross is an NLP Master Practitioner.

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