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BEP 60 ADV – Persuasion 2: Establishing the Need

Advanced, Business English, ESL Podcast, Persuasion, Presentations, Sales / May 31, 2019

Welcome to the second in this three-part Business English Pod series on presenting your ideas presuasively.

Last time we heard a bad example and a good example of persuasion. Then we covered the first step of the Monroe Sequence: We learned that to be persuasive, you first need to get the audience’s attention by establishing the relevance of the topic. We also talked about how it’s extremely important to relate your proposal directly to your audience’s needs.
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BEP 59 ADV – Persuasion 1: Getting Attention

Advanced, Business English, ESL Podcast, Persuasion, Presentations, Sales / May 31, 2019

Do you ever need to persuade or convince someone of your point of view? Do you need to win support for a proposal, or get backing for a project? Of course you do. Persuasion – convincing someone of something – is an essential part of almost everything we do, from informal discussions to formal negotiations. To be successful, you need to be persuasive. You need to get people to accept a different point view, to see things your way. How can you be more persuasive? In this three-part series, we’ll be giving you some answers.
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BEP 48 ADV – Cold Calling: Dealing with Objections and Closing the Call

Advanced, Business English, ESL Podcast, Sales, Telephone English / August 9, 2010

This is the last in our three-part Business English Podcast series on cold calling. In today’s lesson, you’ll learn how to deal with several typical kinds of objections that a potential customer might raise.

When Steve first asked for an appointment, Linda didn’t agree right away, did she? As you know, it’s normal for even a good prospect to give you one or two negative responses, so it’s important to be ready to deal with these and “turn them around” skillfully.
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BEP 47 ADV – Cold Calling: Clarifying Benefits and Making a Pitch

Advanced, Business English, ESL Podcast, Sales, Telephone English / August 9, 2010

This is the second in our three-part Business English Podcast lesson on a useful telephone and sales skill: cold calling.

You can always make yourself more persuasive by asking well-considered questions and really listening to the answers. This principle is true whether you are selling a product or an idea. So in part two we are going to look at some key selling skills: strategically clarifying and summarizing your prospect’s concerns and incorporating them into your pitch to make it more persuasive.
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BEP 46 ADV – Cold Calling: Getting off to a Good Start

Advanced, Business English, ESL Podcast, Sales, Telephone English / August 9, 2010

Today’s lesson is the first in a three-part Business English Pod series on cold calling, the skill of making unsolicited telephone sales calls. Unsolicited means “not asked for.” So cold calling is the skill of making a sales call to someone who is not expecting you.

Cold calling skills are very useful in many parts of business life. To cold call successfully, you need to be persuasive. And persuasion is fundamental to business success, whether you are trying to convince a customer to buy something or your boss or colleagues to accept your point of view.
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