In 2018 we co-authored The Seller's Challenge: How Top Performers Master 10 Deal Killing Obstacles in B2B Sales. Our motive in writing that book was to provide sellers a "field manual" for assembling both tactics and strategies that address these specific deal killers This book, Buyer Centered Selling: How Modern Sellers Engage and Collaborate with Buyers, combines "seller's challenges" with "buyer's dilemmas." Without the collaborative efforts of both seller and buyer, many buying processes are doomed by lethargy, fear and eroding internal support from the buying community. Buyer-Centered Selling provides sellers strategies and tactics that help the buyer address eleven dilemmas likely to slow and obstruct the buying process. The reader will discover quickly that buying and selling are inextricably connected in their focus on helping the customer buy. Buyer-Centered Selling focuses on: How buying and selling are changing, the emergence of the "digital native" and why sellers should consider a different approach to engaging the buyer. How to map a buying process and align buying and selling activities that expedite a decision. How an effective sales discovery process can bring buyer and seller together through a shared focus on problems, implications, and solutions. Four behavioral styles and how buyer-centered sellers can adjust and adapt to how the customer wishes to receive and process information. How sellers can craft a communication plan to differentiate their product and themselves. How stalled opportunities may be "jewels" that require a little nurturing and encouragement to become a vital addition to your pipeline or funnel. How a buyer's perception of risk and their fear of failure can influence decision making. How dormant leads and inactive accounts may represent excellent prospecting targets. How research can help unlock an executive's mindset, enrich sales calls, and become the "ideal seller." How cross-selling can be a boon to our selling effort, including myths, obstacles, and best approaches to expanding the seller's footprint in a target organization. Valuable tactics for finalizing a deal, including the core elements to a close, barriers to closing a deal, and secrets for managing a successful close. Buyer-Centered Selling represents the best practice in winning sales today. This is more than a just a book. It's a field training manual that outlines step-by-step what you need to do today to work more effectively with buyers. This book is written for frontline sellers, sales managers, learning and development directors, sales enablement executives, account managers, marketing professionals and CEOs. SPECIAL BONUSES! With this book you will get access to a myriad of complimentary online resources including: The Buyer-Centered Selling Workbook and a Concept Card on most of the chapters. These cards provide a quick overview of the chapter and they highlight key takeaways. Sellers can use these Concept Card as a quick reference or to refresh the concepts. Scroll up and Purchase Buyer-Centered Selling right now.

For almost two decades, tens of thousands of sales people have learned the lessons presented here by Xerox trainer Robert L. Jolles. The secret, Jolles reveals, is reversing the conventional selling practice. You must focus first on your customer's needs and decision-making process, instead of on the selling practice. Jolles provides a systematic approach that teaches you to anticipate, and influence, customer behaviour as the customer moves through an eight-stage 'decision cycle'. Only after you understand the steps of this decision cycle, Jolles cautions, are you prepared to match it to your 'selling cycle'. At the heart of these lessons is the simple but brilliant role-reversing concept of taking an idea and planting it in the mind of your customer, making the customer believe he or she thought of it first. Jolles teaches a repeatable, predictable selling process that can be adapted or modified to fit any experience that requires the skills of persuasion. The book includes a series of case studies, activities, and exercises that enable you to better understand the principles being taught, so you can immediately apply them to your own unique scenarios.

The Web has changed the game for your customers— and, therefore, for you. Now, CustomerCentric Selling, already recognized as one of the premier methodologies for managing the buyer-seller relationship, helps you level the playing field so you can reach clients when they are ready to buy and create a superior customer experience. Your business and its people need to be “CustomerCentric”—willing and able to identify and serve customers’ needs in a world where competition waits just a mouse-click away. Traditional wisdom has long held that selling means convincing and persuading buyers. But today’s buyers no longer want or need to be sold in traditional ways. CustomerCentric Selling gives you mastery of the crucial eight aspects of communicating with today’s clients to achieve optimal results: Having conversations instead of making presentations Asking relevant questions instead of offering opinions Focusing on solutions and not only relationships Targeting businesspeople instead of gravitating toward users Relating product usage instead of relying on features Competing to win—not just to stay busy Closing on the buyer’s timeline (instead of yours) Empowering buyers instead of trying to “sell” them What’s more, CustomerCentric Selling teaches and reinforces key tactics that will make the most of your organization’s resources. Perhaps you feel you don’t have the smartest internal systems in place to ensure an ideal workflow. (Perhaps, as is all too common, you lack identifiable systems almost entirely.) From the basics—and beyond—of strategic budgeting and negotiation to assessing and developing the skills of your sales force, you’ll learn how to make sure that each step your business takes is the right one.

This book is designed for the sales professional that is ready to get paid what they are worth. Commission-based salespeople don't have time to waste on old sales lines and slick tactics. Business owners cannot afford to sacrifice sales productivity, including repeat clients, when their clients receive less than an A+ presentation. Today's clients demand professionals who can teach them more about the product than they could learn from the internet. Principle Centered Selling addresses these issues and introduces current and relevant sales practices. Principle Centered Selling is about helping people buy though a moral, value-based approach with a compass always pointing towards the highest level of customer service and closing the sale. Lack of training leads to high rates of turnover, and to financial stress for all parties involved in the sales process. When a salesperson becomes invested in their own education, they can use their new skills as well as their increased aptitude and efficiency to give themselves a pay raise.

Game-changing new strategies to outsmart, outmaneuver, and outsell your competition! Salespeople face fierce competition in their pursuit of winning deals. Differences in product features and functions get smaller by the minute and are not always meaningful to buyers. How do you stand out from the pack and not just land the account, but win deals at the prices you want? Lee B. Salz’s previous ground-breaking, bestselling book, Sales Differentiation, armed salespeople with strategies to differentiate both what they sell and how they sell it. Sell Different! provides a new component of Sales Differentiation strategy to help you outsmart, outmaneuver, and outsell the competition to win more deals at the prices you want. This book provides you with the tools you need to land new accounts and grow existing ones. The practical, proven strategies presented in Sell Different! include: How to defeat your toughest competitor (hint: it’s not who you think it is) An actionable 16-phase plan to reach and engage elusive prospects Finding more of your best clients (it’s easier than you think) Acquiring more referrals than you ever dreamed possible Virtual selling and how to harness its potential Neutralizing the fear of change that paralyzes buyers and kills deals Structuring pilot programs that advance your deals Identifying the critical person needed to win more deals at the prices you want Solving closing problems and fixing the real issue limiting your success Dissecting and resolving the most challenging sales objection — price! What 99.999% of salespeople don’t do, but should Expanding account relationships to explode revenue and lock out the competition How to address a major flaw when comparing salespeople with professional athletes And much, much more! If you are a salesperson, executive, or business owner who desires to win more deals at the prices you want, then this book is for you.

Textbook on consultative salespersonhip - gives an introduction to the principles of consultative selling and describes the business management strategies, the profit planning strategies and Motivation to ' personal negotiation' with clients on which the new role of the salesman is based.

True or false? In selling high-value products or services: 'closing' increases your chance of success; it is essential to describe the benefits of your product or service to the customer; objection handling is an important skill; open questions are more effective than closed questions. All false, says this provocative book. Neil Rackham and his team studied more than 35,000 sales calls made by 10,000 sales people in 23 countries over 12 years. Their findings revealed that many of the methods developed for selling low-value goods just don‘t work for major sales. Rackham went on to introduce his SPIN-Selling method. SPIN describes the whole selling process: Situation questions Problem questions Implication questions Need-payoff questions SPIN-Selling provides you with a set of simple and practical techniques which have been tried in many of today‘s leading companies with dramatic improvements to their sales performance.