Power Questions that Get Prospects to Pay Attention to You

Published: Feb. 7, 2012, noon

Clients can't stand it when your meeting with them turns into you talking at them for 15 or 20 minutes. PowerPoint presentations are just as bad. What they want is to have a conversation with you where you uncover and discuss their situation and how you can help. You initiate that by asking "power questions," says client relationship strategist Andrew Sobel.