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Sales As A Spiritual Practice
Monday, 2 Apr, 2012
Sales As A Spiritual Practice

The sales profession focuses on placing product. While some would disagree and claim it’s based on ‘meeting a buyer’s needs’, it comes down to the same thing: how to get a product placed. And, after being in every aspect of the field since the 70s, it seems to me that placing product, or understanding needs, [...]

12 Dirty Little Secrets: why buyers don’t buy
Monday, 12 Mar, 2012
12 Dirty Little Secrets: why buyers don’t buy

Do you sit and wait for your buyer’s to close? They need your solution. They like you…

We can never understand a buyer’s buying environment
Monday, 30 Jan, 2012
We can never understand a buyer’s buying environment

Sales people get confused when I suggest they can’t ’understand’ the buyer’s needs if they approach a sale with this outcome. Without everyone on board who will lend their voice to a possible solution, buyers cannot understand it themselves. And using the sales model, we can’t help: we’ll never understand what’s going on behind-the-scenes as they figure out who should be involved, what must be [...]

Selling doesn’t cause buying
Monday, 12 Dec, 2011
Selling doesn’t cause buying

When you think about your numbers (closing percentages, total calls, etc.), and consider the objections, the price issues, the delayed sales cycles, the excuses, and those who just, well, disappear, don’t you realize these same problems have been cropping up, um, forever? And that whatever you seem to be doing to ‘correct’ the issue doesn’t seem to [...]

A buying decision is a change management problem
Wednesday, 24 Aug, 2011
A buying decision is a change management problem

The sales model focuses on needs assessment and solution placement. Buying is a change management activity. They are two different activities.

Deliver the Right Content at the Right Stage of the Buy-Path
Monday, 25 Apr, 2011
Deliver the Right Content at the Right Stage of the Buy-Path

Recently, I asked 15 marketing automation leaders to define Lead Scoring for me. Every one gave me a different answer!