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What is Consultative Selling, and How Can it Work for You?

Crunchbase

Consultative selling brings us back to a core principle of sales: You’re a human speaking to another human. What is consultative selling, and how does it work? Consultative selling focuses on creating value, building trust with a prospect and exploring their needs before offering a solution.

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The Complete Guide to Closing More Deals Using Consultative Selling

Mindtickle

The most successful sales organizations are adopting a consultative selling approach to meet buyers’ lofting expectations – and start closing more deals, faster. In this post, we’ll explore what consultative selling is, how it differs from traditional selling, and how it can set your organization apart from the competition.

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VIDEO SALES TIP: How To Use Social Media the Right Way

The Sales Hunter

Are you using social media the right way in your sales process? I meet too many salespeople who spend too much time trying to communicate with prospects and customers through social media – when they really need to be reaching out to those people on the phone or in person. Unfortunately, many salespeople are not!

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Social Media vs. Traditional Prospecting: Which is More Effective?

The Sales Hunter

Every day I get minimally 3 – 5 emails from people proclaiming to me how effective their social media plan is for getting new customers. Each one claims to know exactly why others fail and why they have a plan that works perfect. Along with the emails are the numerous articles on the web about how old school […].

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A Guide to Consultative Selling: Process, Techniques, Examples

LeadFuze

How Is Consultative Selling Defined? When you adopt a consultative approach to sales, it means that rather than telling prospects what they need from your product or service, you ask them thought-provoking questions about their needs. Benefits of the consultative selling approach. Shorter sales cycles.

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5 Steps to Effective Consultative Selling

SalesEngine

Does your method include building rapport with your prospects? If you’re not doing those things already, or if you want to improve what you’re doing, read on for some simple steps to make your consultative selling more effective. What is Consultative Selling? What is Consultative Selling?

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Go through the motions

Sales 2.0

Even if you use social selling techniques that get you a referral or help you connect to a potential buyer using your mutual background, it is still likely to take some follow up before you confirm a meeting time (or virtual meeting time these days). For higher end consultative selling I would recommend a cadence along these lines.