Because sales operates in needs assessment/solution placement terms, and not on the buying decision paths, we don’t consider that there is an actual system to how buyers buy. But there is. And it’s scalable.
BUYING DECISIONS ARE BASED ON SYSTEMS AND CHANGE MANAGEMENT
We live in systems (My book Dirty Little Secrets: why buyers can’t buy and sellers can’t sell [...]

The sales model has taught you to uncover needs – to really, really understand needs…

I have a very unusual brain and experience the world differently than most. As a person with Non-Verbal Learning Disorder (NLD – a form of Aspgerger’s), I experience the world in systems. I listen for systems, hear people speak in systems, ask systems-based questions. Some folks find me obnoxious, some charming. Some find me smart/interesting. But certainly [...]

We don’t get objections because buyers don’t like us or our solutions. Or because they don’t trust us. They object – push back – because they are protecting themselves from the fallout that would happen if something new entered their environment before they are ready.
When we notice a problem we’ve got a solution for, and go barreling forth [...]

Sales folks who are not changing their approach, or their activity, or their go-to-market strategies are going to go the way of the newspaper: doomed. There is just too much change going on now in the industry to keep doing what you’ve always done. The large companies know this (kinda); the smaller ones are pushing [...]

Unfortunately, the newspaper may be going the way of the dial telephone. I’m a journalist by trade, so this fact pains me greatly. But the truth is, newspapers haven’t yet discovered a way to re-invent themselves to remain relevant today. Technology just does too good a job making news available instantaneously.
Unfortunately, the same thing is happening with [...]