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Are your Customers Outpacing your Sales Team?

SBI Growth

Being Outpaced – lead with a product and a price and call it solution selling. More selling is done virtually – buyers are making decision without a rep in the room. Buyers rely on content, peers, and social media to educate themselves. Sellers facilitate vs. closing – buyers are more educated and make a decision to buy.

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6 Effective B2B Sales Approaches You Must Incorporate Today

Salesmate

Once you get the referral, use social media channels to connect with the potential prospect. The solution selling sales approach. This is a simple sales approach where you discover the prospect’s needs and recommend a solution to address those needs. It works best, however, when emphasizing the “give” part.

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How to Start Your Career in Tech Sales

Crunchbase

Methodologies like: Solution selling: works by recommending specific products and services that will solve the individual concerns of the customer. Gap selling: works by identifying a problem, presenting a desired future state and then bridging the gap with a potential solution. Channel your existing sales experience.

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Gartner Guest Post: Selling Solutions Means What Exactly?

Jonathan Farrington

Exacerbating the problem even further is when a sales manager wants to change the behavior of its sales force and pushes them to sell solutions, yet pays them (sometimes very well) for selling just products. The clear disconnect between what solutions actually mean to a provider versus a customer seems to be getting wider.

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8 Ways You Can Generate Your Own Leads if You Don’t Have Marketing Support

Hubspot Sales

Most successful salespeople already practice some version of solution selling. It’s about letting the prospect define the pace of the process and offering education and advice as a way to build confidence and trust that makes it easy and safe for a client to buy. Need some help on your first post?

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15 Proven and Tested Sales Methodologies to Boost Your Sales

LeadFuze

As with conceptual selling, this idea is most effective in sectors where large amounts of recurring business and word-of-mouth necessitate a high level of customer trust. 6 Solution Selling. Solution selling foregoes the product-centric approach in favor of a solution’s advantages, impact, and relevance.

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The End of Marketing as We Know It: Overcoming Buyer Challenges with Interactive Smart Content

The ROI Guy

The past decade has seen an exciting and dramatic increase in new digital marketing channels including Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, search engines, webinars, virtual trade shows and more. How fundamental is the shift from product / solution selling to value selling / marketing?

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