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Leverage questions offer the highest payoff when they are used in the context of a full-scale sales strategy - a strategy that tells you how to build up to asking such questions and what to do with the information after you've uncovered it. That's what Action Selling Sales Training Workshops teach.
The national sales director of retail-photocopy giant Kinko's puts it this way: "By learning to sell via the Action Selling sales skills process, our salespeople now know where they stand at every stage during a call and can proceed strategically. They are better able to manage a sales call from start to finish.
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