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Are You Convincing or Connecting?

Author
Rob Jolles
Published
Mon 26 May 2025
Episode Link
https://pocket-sized-pep-talks.simplecast.com/episodes/are-you-convincing-or-connecting-hj5dlxXP

In this Pocket Sized PepTalk, you'll learn:

  • Various techniques of interviewing along with multiple approaches to questioning.
  • Techniques David found most effective for building trust quickly.
  • What role listening plays in uncovering a deeper story, and how that parallels with what a good salesperson should be doing.
  • As a journalist, how you read the emotional landscape of a conversation and decide how far you could push a question through an interpreter.
  • What role does curiosity plays in getting a good story and how might salespeople use authentic curiosity as a tool.
  • David's crossover from a business author to a fiction author with your new book, The Interpreter, and what made him want to write a fiction novel.
  • How this idea of 'interpreting' apply to what salespeople and entrepreneurs do when they’re translating customer needs into solutions.

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