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Transactional Versus Complex Selling

Partners in Excellence

We glibly toss around phrases like “We have a transactional selling process,” or, “Ours is a complex selling process.” ” Often, there is some preening around those making the latter statement, thinking “Real sales people do complex deals!”

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What is ASC 606? A Guide to Its Ins & Outs

Hubspot Sales

Your company typically records its revenue when the transaction funds are received and added to your cash register or bank account. Revenue recognition stipulates that this method of accounting requires revenue recognition once it’s earned versus at the end of the project when it’s received. Consider attorneys at a law firm.

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Apples And Oranges

Partners in Excellence

But in understanding apples and their performance versus oranges, you’d quickly realize that the comparison is like…… well, comparing apples and oranges. Recently, I read an article, “ What’s Wrong With Solution Selling.” ” Well, duugghhhh… Isn’t it obvious?

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False Choices: Transactional Versus Solution Selling Approaches

Partners in Excellence

There are questions of, “should we be transactional, product, solutions, consultative focused?” ” Often, particularly with XaaS companies, the executives leap to the conclusion, “We have to be transactional, “SaaS” focused. The reality, is these are false choices.

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Are You Curious About Who Your Customer Is?

Partners in Excellence

” Most of the time, the responses are in the context of what the sales person sells, “They want to buy……, they care about these capabilities… ” But our customers cannot be defined in terms of our products, our features/functions/feeds/speeds. Even before the pandemic, our customers struggled.

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Three Services to Consider for Your New Startup

Smooth Sale

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: Three Services to Consider for Your New Startup When you start your business, your transactions aren’t only going to be with your customers – there are often going to be times when you need to rely on the services of other businesses to keep things afloat.

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Thinking About “Conversational Intelligence”

Partners in Excellence

I suppose the focus on the single conversation is appropriate if you are engaged in a highly transactional buying/selling process. But when we look at complex buying/selling processes, they are characterized by many conversations with many people, usually over a long period of time.