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Who are the specific champions and buyers you'll do business with this year?

Clive Griffiths
Clive Griffiths
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Who are the specific champions and buyers you'll do business with this year?

𝗟𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗕𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀
It’s useful to list actual names, not just organisations.

Even if I haven’t met them yet, it signals intent—a commitment to reaching them, somehow, by hook or crook.

(By the way,
is an English idiom meaning to achieve a goal by any means necessary, likely rooted in the old custom of peasants gathering wood from royal forests.)

A quick audit. Use this checklist. How prepared are you?

5 keys to new business connections:

✅ Specific companies and job roles, I want to target.
✅ Specific people in those roles, who I want to connect with.
✅ At least three addressable key pain points, those people will prioritise.
✅ A highly-personalised way of reaching those people that gets their attention.
✅ Something more to talk about, that cultivates enough interest they want to meet me.

𝗔𝗻𝗱, 𝗹𝗲𝘁’𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁 y𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀?

⇥ You can do better than lame catch-up calls.
⇥ Talk about goals, drivers and pressures.
⇥ And obstacles, initiatives, and KPIs.
⇥ Write an annual plan 𝚠̲𝚒̲𝚝̲𝚑̲ them.

That’s an easy and effective approach for account expansion.

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