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Decision Facilitation: Influencing The Offline Decisions
Friday, 17 Jul, 2009
Decision Facilitation: Influencing The Offline Decisions

Lately, I’ve heard a few folks using the term that I have been using for 20: decision facilitation.
But what, exactly, does that mean?
Since I suspect there is a good chance I was the person who …

What Are Buyers Doing While We Wait?
Monday, 13 Jul, 2009
What Are Buyers Doing While We Wait?

Buyers have lots to do before they buy. And it has little to do with your product or their need.
You know those times when buyers show up and, barely before you can ask them what they …

Sales 2.0: 5 Things You Shouldn’t Expect
Monday, 6 Jul, 2009
Sales 2.0: 5 Things You Shouldn’t Expect

Sales 2.0 is the New New Thing.
I hate to be a contrarian (Oh. Ok. I love it. Why change the habits of a lifetime?) but… it’s not the end-all and be-all that it’s being touted …

Buying Decisions: The Implicit Vs. The Explicit
Monday, 29 Jun, 2009
Buying Decisions: The Implicit Vs. The Explicit

When I began talking about ‘helping buyers buy’, or ‘decision facilitation’ in 1988, people thought I was a bit eccentric, to say the least. “I help buyers buy too,” I used to hear. “I find …

Sales As A Form Of Change Management
Friday, 26 Jun, 2009
Sales As A Form Of Change Management

As sellers, we forget that when buyers make a purchasing decision, they are bringing our solution into their environment. And, trust me on this, their environment is not sitting and waiting around for us to …

What’s Behind A Buying Decision?
Friday, 19 Jun, 2009
What’s Behind A Buying Decision?

Buyers live in a system. It includes people, policies, relationships, company or family politics, personality issues, initiatives, historic vendor relationships, personal biases, fears. And any Identified Problem, or need, that our product can resolve, sits …