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Solution Selling vs. Aspirational Selling

Product Management University

Solution selling is like vanilla ice cream. Aspirational selling is a more tantalizing flavor that separates you from the pack and makes your products the clear choice. Aspirational selling is a more tantalizing flavor that separates you from the pack and makes your products the clear choice. What is Solution Selling?

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B2B Sales Training Techniques and Best Practices

Highspot

B2C sales, on the other hand, are more about quick transactions and appealing to customers’ emotions. When training B2B sales professionals, it’s important to focus on a skill set that aligns with its unique nature. This includes market understanding, solution selling, and long-term relationship building.

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Strategic Selling with Perspective: Defining the Next Generation of Sales Models

Miller Heiman Group

To quash the competition, Xerox developed Professional Selling Skills (PSS), a formal sales methodology the company used to train its own sales reps that was later sold to other organizations (and eventually acquired by Miller Heiman Group). Strategic Selling pioneered solution selling as we know it today.

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A Complete Guide to the Solution Selling Methodology

Gong.io

That’s where Solution Selling comes in. In this article, we’ll explain what Solution Selling is, what sets it apart, and how to tell if it’s right for your team. We’ll also cover the steps of the Solution Selling methodology so you can adopt it in your organization. What is Solution Selling?

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The Worst Sales Call of 2012

SBI Growth

The story begins with the EVP of Sales of a large technology company. The purpose of the engagement was to understand why The Challenger Sale was not working. In 2011, this company replaced its Solution Selling methodology with The Challenger Sales approach. He hired our firm. Be careful.

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Sales Training Advice with 5 Ways to Measure Your Sales Process

Customer Centric Selling

First, let’s get one key distinction on the table: A sales process is not a sales methodology. Spin Selling” and “Solution Selling” are methodologies. A sales process is a set of well-defined stages that can be tracked. Sales professionals can apply a sales methodology to a process.

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How To Deliver Insight & Challenge The Status Quo With Questions

Insight Demand

I’m aware of the challenges salespeople experience delivering questions, because I was a partner at a question-based sales methodology for 5 years. What I discovered was that the people who attended the messaging workshop to create the questions in preparation for the training were successful at solution selling.

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