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Blog Category // Modern Sales Approach (4)

The New Sales Storytelling

Salespeople need stories to sell. Much of the time, salespeople use stories about their client's problems and how their ...
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How Time Selling In One Industry Makes You One-Up

The ability to be One-Up requires you to have more knowledge and experience than your clients. It doesn't suggest that you ...

Going All In on Your Sales Approach

One of the more difficult initiatives a sales leader can attempt is changing their sales approach. Every so often, the ...

How Sales Strategies Evolve Over Time

The feedback on Elite Sales Strategies: A Guide to Being One-Up, Creating Value, and Becoming Truly Consultative has been ...

The Difference Between My Approach and Challenger

My version of the modern sales approach isn't very much like that described in The Challenger Sale, with the exception of ...
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Your Obligation to Become One-Up

When you ask a prospective client for a meeting, you are asking them to provide you with their single, non-renewable ...

Do You Need Something Or Do You Know Something?

Every salesperson can be sorted into one of two primary categories. The first category is a salesperson who needs something ...

Why Legacy Salespeople Lose to Truly Consultative Salespeople

The primary challenge in sales today is that the legacy approaches don't position the salesperson appropriately in the first ...

Who Am I To Tell My Client What To Do?

The concept of being One-Up means you believe your client is One-Down as it pertains to decision-making and the better ...
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No One Needs a Bad Salesperson

I'm arguing with Jonathan Graham and Michael Price from the Inward Book Club. They have been kind enough to review a number ...

The 4th Level of Value and the Connection to Being One-Up

Inside the sales conversation, there are four levels of value: The first level of value is the conversation is sharing ...

Being One-Up and Why You Must Compel Change

There are a number of sales beliefs that are so well known they are accepted as a matter of faith. Expressing a different ...

How Does Your Client Know What They Don't Know

The concept of being One-Up causes some to have a negative reaction, as it breaks the old paradigm of the legacy approach to ...
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The Coin of the Realm in Sales Is Value Creation

A coin holds a specific amount of value. The benefit of a coin is that you can give it to another party, allowing them to ...

Your Competitor Will Do What You Refuse To Do

A post on LinkedIn suggested that it is important to have a physical presence—specifically, a face-to-face meeting—with your ...

One-Up and the Power of Authority

Imagine you are a manager (who isn’t in sales) and the results you are responsible for producing have become increasingly ...

Overcoming the Fear of Being One-Up

I am grateful that the concept of being One-Up has resonated with salespeople and sales leaders. It’s a position that allows ...

One-Up Objections

We are happy with our current provider. Can you send me some information? Can you try me again next quarter? Your price is ...

The One-Up Negotiation

Every One-Down salesperson has a tell, something that reveals their low level of status and knowledge. A decision maker or a ...

The One-Up Mindset

While the One-Up approach to sales is more than just a state of mind, like all effective approaches, it starts with a ...

On the Importance of Why Change

Much of what you read here comes from my experience selling and leading a sales force in a highly commoditized industry. In ...
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