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Why avoiding Story Context derails Sales Decision Making

Babette Ten Haken

Especially when these omitted details surface, often inconveniently, both pre- and post-sale. Most of the time, these professionals are involved in the post-sale care and feeding of customers, once a sale is consummated. At “that” final meeting, when the sale is assumed, but not yet closed. Something different?

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Are We Storytelling compelling Customer Retention Experiences?

Babette Ten Haken

Doing our thing, pre- and post-sale. Yet, the further down the sales cycle we go, these are the stories our prospective clients truly want to hear. Engage me to speak or conduct an interactive workshop at your next corporate or association event. She is a member of SME, ASQ, SHRM and the National Speakers Association.

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How to perform Customer Base Triage and Why It Matters

Babette Ten Haken

Either the sales force in dedicated to ensuring they, themselves, have jobs next quarter by meeting quota. Lengthy sales cycles and subsequent product and service contract lifecycles create a false sense of product-fit security. Engage me to speak or conduct an interactive workshop at your next corporate or association event.

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Why Your Business Cases fall short of telling the entire Story

Babette Ten Haken

Traditionally, storytelling is a marketing, sales or PR function. And, traditionally, marketing, sales and PR focus on justifying, to customers, their investment in your products and services in anticipation of a benefit received from said products and services. Do you know who they are? As a result, they become skeptical.