Selling Without Slides

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

It’s a scenario played out in millions of sales meetings every year. The eager salesperson has finally managed to get a meeting with one of his A list target customers. The customer meets him at reception, takes him to a meeting room and opens with “tell me a little about your company”.

Postscript to Debunking the myths of non-verbal communication

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

My post on debunking the myths of non-verbal communication has been picked up by a lot of google searches for “percentage non-verbal communication”, “what % of communication is non-verbal” and the like.

Debunking the myths of non-verbal communication

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

93% of communication is non-verbal. Everyone knows that.
I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve heard this in sales training sessions or read it in books, articles and blogs. Sometimes the stats are qualified further, for example: