Ep 500: Ask, Listen, Outclass your Competition - a Masterclass in Empathic Questioning

Ep 500:A Question of Ask, Listen, Outclass Your Competition. Ep 500: The Art of Asking Questions - A Masterclass in Curiosity  In this special 500th episode, Marcus Cauchi shares his a few of his best insights and techniques for asking powerful questions. Through coaching real sellers and founders live, he demonstrates how carefully crafted questions can uncover obstacles, open minds, and drive conversations forward.   What You'll Learn From This Episode - Observe how Marcus listens intently and focuses on understanding the other person's real problem before jumping to solutions. - Notice how he peels back layers of confusion by asking simple but thoughtful follow-up questions. - See how he builds trust and credibility by not applying pressure or giving unsolicited advice.- Learn several of Marcus' frameworks for crafting open-ended, imaginative questions that provoke creative thinking.- Discover how patience and curiosity are key to guiding people to their own breakthroughs and decisions. "I've carried my sales team's quota the last 2 months by applying tactics I learned from this podcast. I recently closed two of my biggest deals ever ($400k and $300k) thanks to insights from The Inquisitor." Ed, Account Executive, Fintech, Mid-Market Sales Thank You! Thank you to you, our loyal listener for supporting the growth of #TheInquisitor over 500 episodes and rapidly over 180,000 downloads! Suzanne and I ask a favour, that you share this episode with others who could benefit from improving their questioning skills. And please give the show a review, good or bad, witty or serious. We depend on you sharing the show. We don't charge, we don't carry advertising - please support us by telling others. And talking to us about what you learn, what you want to learn. This is a great adventure we share - have your say and tell us what you need, how we can make the show even better, more useful. And recommend great guests, please. Also check out Marcus' coaching for more in-depth learning on powerful strategies to immediately improve your sales conversations and remove friction from your buyer's decision to buy from you. P.S. Want to know something about yourself and your selling that you don't know now? Complete the new and vastly improved Modern Selling Aptitude Test v3.0 - Click here to get your SATv3.0:  Book a free 30 minute results review and I will share your #BuyerSafetyScore and your #PipelineCertaintyScore, and help you pinpoint one obstacle over which you have control that is holding you back.

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The Inquisitor podcast is produced by salespeople for salespeople for the ambitiously lazy sales professional. Delivering practical, real-world sales tips and advice to help you sell more, sell more often, sell to more people and sell for more money you will learn about the best practices in direct sales, sales management, selling to the C-suite, sales recruitment & predictive hiring in sales, how to prevent wrong hires, buyer-seller-manager sales psychology, enterprise selling, channel sales and channel sales management. We are interviewing some giants in salesforce development and lifetime behaviour modification, exploring how you self-sabotage in sales, removing your excuses and shattering many myths around selling and salespeople. No fluff. No excuses. Fun and uncomfortable.