A Lesson About Sales

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“She’s losing them,” I thought to myself. I was sitting beside one of my colleagues at a large boardroom table that overlooked the Pacific ocean. We were meeting with key decision makers at a company that had the capacity to give us a large sum of money. I was somewhat new to the world of fundraising, and I was mostly there to ascertain if the company’s grantmaking aligned with…