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Consultative Selling Using a Common Problems Approach

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In my world of sales and sales training , I hear the term “consultative selling” thrown around quite a bit. First of all, being a consultative partner means two things. Consultative Selling Step 1: Establishing Comfort and Trust. I tell a story in many of my trainings about selling to a CEO.

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3 Exercises to Hone Your Team’s Consultative Selling Skills

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Whether through group sales team meetings or one-on-ones, here are the top 3 exercises to work into your coaching sessions to build your sales team’s consultative selling skills. For example, if your widget reduces waste by 15%, a great question would be, “Tell me about the impact of excess waste on your business.”

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Examples of Consultative Selling Role Play Exercises

Richardson

Sales role-playing exercises are particularly effective for those learning consultative selling in which the path to the sale is revealed through a process of questioning. This tension is what makes the theoretical become the practical. The result: real-world skills.

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Consultative selling: What is it and why does it work?

Gong.io

Adopting a consultative selling approach that takes a genuine interest in your customers will blow your competitors out of the water. . If you’re ready to become a customer-centric salesperson, then read on to discover how consultative selling works. . Consultative selling definition: What is consultative selling?

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Consultative Selling–We See Great Examples Everywhere

Partners in Excellence

Most of the principles we look at in high performance selling are simply the disciplined and systematic application of common sense and the Golden Rule (I mean the “Do unto others… ” one). However, there are great examples we see every day. We see great examples of consultative selling every day.

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Post Consultative Selling

Sales Training Connection

Clearly “king of the hill” for the last 30-40 years has been Consultative Selling. Consultative Selling emphasizes the importance of moving from a product-centric to a customer-centric sale. We think it relates to the same match that started the movement toward Consultative Selling.

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Consultative selling and selling consultatively – don’t confuse them!

Sales Training Connection

In this case, the weeds involve drawing the distinction between the term consultative selling and the concept of selling consultatively. As starters, Mark Hanan established the branding this term in his brilliantly written book Consultative Selling – an early and extremely important work about selling consultatively.