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Your products or offerings monopolize the market. You have pure commodity products/offerings that sell themselves (consider inside sales!). “Do we have a sales turnover problem that needs to be fixed now?". HR is busy filling open Sales Rep positions.
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and “are our product offerings configured so that the new buyers find them compelling?” Buying process. In a recent survey Bain found that “nearly 1/3 of the technology purchasing power has moved to executives outside of IT.”.
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Merely giving a discount and not changing the product offering in some manner is simply dumb. Are you willing to cut your price to land a new customer? Unfortunately, far too many salespeople are willing to do so.
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