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Solution Selling Is Exactly What Today’s Buyer Wants

Sales Hacker

Have you ever walked into a store, told the salesperson what your requirements were, and they pointed you in the direction of the solution that answered your needs? You’ve just been “solution-sold.”. Solution selling gained traction in the 1980s and has been popular ever since. What is solution selling?

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Product Selling vs Solution Selling w/Scott Crosley

InsideSales.com

? ?. Read on to learn how the prospect theory can help you move from product and solution selling to value selling. RELATED: Creating Value for Customers – 5 Strategies for Value Selling. In this article: How the Shift from Product and Solution Selling to Value Selling Began.

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What is Guided Selling & How Does it Work? 5 Best Software Tools

Hubspot Sales

In this guided selling starter kit, we’ll cover the basics, including how this process works and how it can benefit your business. We’ll also dive into a few guided selling examples, cover some software tools that can help, and finish off with guided selling best practices to get this most from this approach.

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False Choices: Transactional Versus Solution Selling Approaches

Partners in Excellence

For example, “we’ve got to do Challenger/Insight based selling…” As much a fan I am of this approach for very complex buying environments, it’s often the wrong choice for many buying environments. For example, transactional selling approaches are very efficient, very predictable, and easily scalable.

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Sales Skill-Sets vs Sales Tool-Sets

SBI

Of course, my retort is that you won’t increase sales if you don’t have the right tools to compete more efficiently and effectively. They would ask, “What good is a prospect research tool if reps don’t know how to get a decision maker to engage?” You have to have a hammer.

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The Evolution of Sales Tools and the Efficiency Paradox

SBI

The reason I’m using this absurdly outdated example is to make a point about the drivers behind the evolution of tools and the importance of investing in new tools. Tools (technology and processes) evolve over time primarily from an onward and inevitably pressing need for operational effectiveness and gaining efficiencies.

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30 Seconds Matter: How Sales Tools Deliver Revenue Growth

SBI

Linda wanted to get my thoughts on sales tools and the role they play in today’s sales organizations. The first sales tool I used (other than a rolodex) was the GRiD Systems laptop. It was an exciting time, and it is where my love for sales tools began. Sales Tools Deliver Revenue Growth! per minute.