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The Best Sales Book, That Isn’t a Sales Book

A Sales Guy

It doesn’t address topics like closing or overcoming objections or prospecting or email writing. S**t, when it was written in 2002, LinkedIn wasn’t a thing, there was no “social” selling, and your sales stack was the yellow-pages. Remember, he published the book in 2002, 6 years before the Great Recession.

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Sales Tips: No Goal, No Prospect

Customer Centric Selling

No Prospect. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. When launching CustomerCentric Selling® in 2002 the first core concept of our process was: No goal means no prospect. Sales Tips: No Goal? LAST CHANCE: Public workshop in Boston is NEXT WEEK!

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IIWII Sales Training Article Series Cont'd: An Underleveraged Asset

Customer Centric Selling

Sales Training Article: An Underleveraged Asset By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company This article is a continuation from last week's article , as part of the IIWII ("It Is What It Is") series. This skepticism seems to be in buyers’ DNA, but in fact is environmental.

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Customers — Easier To Reach, Harder To Influence

Pipeliner

In the 2002 movie Minority Report , there was a scene that blew me away. As with the film, such online sales efforts usually end up as nothing more than annoyances, simply because it’s almost impossible for their creators to address the specific problems or issues actually confronting prospects. It’s all about the buyer.

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Sales Tips: How to Apply Common Sense in Sales

Customer Centric Selling

The first was: No goal means no prospect. Put another way, if a buyer doesn’t share a goal or admit a problem they’re willing to spend money to achieve or address there is no opportunity for a salesperson to pursue. Take a look at the sales training workshops available to get started and improve sales performance.

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Sales Tips: Empower Rather Than Sell

Customer Centric Selling

Sales Tips: Empower Your Prospects, Don't Sell Them. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. Since launching CustomerCentric Selling® in 2002, we’ve tried to have vendors take buyer perspectives. Image courtesy of Janoon at FreeDigitalPhotos.net.

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Sales Tips: Is It Time to Update Your Sales Process and CRM?

Customer Centric Selling

This was made possible by the volume of product information posted on websites (vendor opinions) and social networking that provided buyers transparent information from trusted people about offerings, service, support, etc. It will be necessary to go backward before moving forward if the buyer is willing.