Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 20, 2016

By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. In last week's blog I offered suggestions for (reactively) gaining access to Key Players when sellers are contacted by lower level staff within prospect organizations. Sales Tips: Proactively Call at High Levels, Reap the Benefits.

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Keith Rosen

JANUARY 7, 2013

During any management coach training I deliver globally, regardless of location or industry, eventually a manager would talk about their top performing A Players and their under-performing C players. They are playing to win and so are your sellers when engaging with a customer or prospect. Here’s a common scenario. ” WOW!

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Smooth Sale

JUNE 11, 2019

It is only after one or several conversations that you may see a fit for doing business. The so-called sage advice kills possibilities rather than enhance them. The essential sales element is first to learn what motivates your prospective client and how we can best serve them. Eye contact.

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Hyper-Connected Selling

DECEMBER 11, 2018

He gives you reasons why you should and shouldn’t ask certain questions and identifies a question that, when I ask it, the response is “No one has ever asked me that question before” and the conversation continues on an entirely different level. Tracking it will help save time that will allow us to focus on other areas.

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Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Train wrecks occur a month at a time. I find it ironic that companies continue to spend inordinate amounts of time and money on training sellers on products. These prospects believe sellers will try to manipulate them by influencing their requirements. Ronald Reagan gave sage advice when he said "Trust but verify."

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JANUARY 20, 2017

Thirteen years ago, I sat down with a mentor who gave me some very memorable and sage advice. Here are a few of the hard things we found high growth sales and marketing teams doing: Successfully Executing on Cold Calling and Other forms of Outbound Prospecting. These are prospects won in the trenches. appointments per week).

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Nutshell

AUGUST 13, 2018

That’s what got me ready to sit in front of senior executives and have real, meaningful conversations about their business. In sales, your prospects will always say “no” or “sorry, it’s not the right time.” Decide and write down what you want the prospect to think, say, do, and decide at the end of the meeting.

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Xvoyant

MAY 1, 2019

Good sales habits mainly arise from focused onboarding and training programs. It’s the prospect and industry research that matters most. In order to gain the trust of your prospects, you have to think, behave, and speak as they do. Prospect and company research should be emphasized in training.

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Xvoyant

MAY 1, 2019

Good sales habits mainly arise from focused onboarding and training programs. It’s the prospect and industry research that matters most. In order to gain the trust of your prospects, you have to think, behave, and speak as they do. Prospect and company research should be emphasized in training.

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Ideal Customer Profile Top of Funnel Buyer Persona Hiring 48

Nutshell

AUGUST 13, 2018

That’s what got me ready to sit in front of senior executives and have real, meaningful conversations about their business. In sales, your prospects will always say “no” or “sorry, it’s not the right time.” Decide and write down what you want the prospect to think, say, do, and decide at the end of the meeting.

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Chemicals Hiring Follow-up Face-to-face 48

Gong.io

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Prospecting 2. Prospecting Sales Tips & Techniques. Let’s start with PROSPECTING! You have to hunt them with outbound prospecting. BUT, prospecting is more than memorizing a cold calling script. Art and science are both essential to GREAT prospecting. Quick Links 1. Starting Meetings 3. Discovery 4.

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Hyper-Connected Selling

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Of course, that is if I wasn’t desperately trying to find a prospect who was in their office so I could hit my year-end numbers or get a head start on my goals for the next quarter. It’s hard for a salesperson or entrepreneur to create business when the office is half empty and it seems like all of your prospects and customers are on holiday.

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No More Cold Calling

MAY 13, 2021

You can wow prospects with your technological know-how up front and then try to win them over later, once they find out you’re honest and reliable. Skip the Sales Pitch, Nurture Trust with Conversation. Building client trust can happen quickly when you’re introduced by someone your prospect already knows and trusts.

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Cience

JANUARY 6, 2020

For example, there are lead generation companies that provide accounting, corporate IT training, custom software development, electrical engineering, film services, privacy shield notice, technical support, etc. The B2B lead generation experts began sorting contacts in order to keep only the prospective ones. They are buyer-centric.

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