How 35 years of research about how people buy and figure out value can improve sales performance even for highly trained salespeople
This article shares discoveries to improve selling effectiveness based on 35 years of studying salespeople and buyers about how people think out a decision to buy and figure out value. These discoveries show new ways salespeople can influence a purchase decision and get prospects to accept their price that go beyond typical sales training and other practices.
In fact, a recent win/loss interview survey revealed that 38% of prospects cited a salesperson’s failure to understand their needs as the number one reason a ...
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What customers will buy at a profitable price is the one thing that can consistently help companies make the best choices about strategies, products and services.
Why do strategies that are successful for some firms turn into abysmal failures for others? Why don’t some of the success principles espoused in countless books actually work all the time? Why does the opposite of these success practices yield good results sometimes? It turns out that the renowned success stories bounced around books and speeches like they were the Holy Grail turn out to only be true for a specific product or service offered to a specific market at a certain moment in time. They cannot be generalized into universal success practices.
If they can’t then what can? All strategies such as improving quality, enhancing service, ...
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