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,…
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.
Robin Starr gave a speech at Toastmasters. She said that there are only seven responses to any question. Let’s look at them through the lens that is professional selling.
Yes
The perfect answer. The one, most hoped for, and best of all…
Here are five lies about sales and selling. Don't believe them.
Solutions Selling is Dead: Pure, unadulterated bullshit. Has selling changed? Absolutely. Has buying changed? Perhaps, but not as much as is being touted (at least not in B2B…
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