Tag: consensus

The Gist:

• In B2B sales, especially those that require complex decisions, consensus is necessary.
• Winning big deals means finding a way to help your clients gain the consensus of their organization.
• Learning how consensus works is worth…

The Gist:

• In any conversation with a prospective client, you may encounter an objection.
• While it's important to know how to overcome objections and resolve your client’s concerns, it also important to forestall objections in the first…

The Gist:

• Selling is a series of problems that you have to solve.
• Some of these problems prevent you from creating new opportunities while others are obstacles to winning them.
• Success comes from using your resourcefulness and…

You've acquired a contact to act as your champion or sponsor. They are motivated to change, and they are engaged in exploring their options with you as their strategic partner. Things are progressing nicely, but you know that the importance of…

There is nothing more critical to success in sales than your command of the fundamentals. Those fundamentals include things like prospecting, commitment-gaining, presenting, overcoming objections (what we more accurately describe as "resolving…

Of all the changes in selling over the last decade and a half, the changes on the buyer's side may be the most disruptive. No doubt that some part of that change belongs to the proliferation of information available via the internet. However,…

In sales, fast can be slow, and slow can be fast.

Even though you may be able to do the discovery work necessary to provide your dream client with the solution they need in a single meeting, the contacts you are meeting with may need more time to…

We have a lot of ideas about how buyers buy and how we as sellers should sell. We collect and count data (mostly without capturing any context) and use it to show how buyers make thoughtful, rational, well-informed decisions. But mostly, as…

Note: This is not a political post. If your comments reveal your politics, I’ll most likely delete them. This post is about learning from what you see around you. The following statements are indisputable facts, not my political opinion.

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There are three reasons your operations team struggle to give your clients what they want.

1. The biggest reason your operations team struggles to give your clients what they want is because your clients can't have what they want the way they…