Over Credentializing in Virtual Selling is Hurting Your Brand

It is happening over and over millions of times a day during virtual sales calls: “The over credentialization.” Over credentializing is the process of talking too much about yourself and trying way too hard to get others on your call to think you know what you are talking about and are worthy of their time.

The only thing that will ever convince prospects that you are worthy of their time is providing business value through a valid business reason for having the sales meeting.

What does over credentializing sound like?

In these new and disrupted times, I am so focused on our clients that I rarely have time for vendor calls. This week, at the suggestion of a colleague, I agreed to join a call where a company was pitching us a new idea for some sort of business process outsourcing. It sounded interesting so I decided to give it a shot. What did I have to lose beside a precious hour?

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