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Consultative Selling Activity
10 March 2014 by Charles Howden
So you think your sellers are selling consultatively?
Calculating the Return on Investment
05 March 2014 by Charles Howden
Can your sellers do the numbers?
How much is your search for perfection costing you?
25 February 2014 by Charles Howden
Because an 80% solution implemented right now will always beat a 100% solution implemented sometime never…
Common Sales Mistakes for Technology Companies
17 February 2014 by Charles Howden
What are the three most common sales mistakes for technology companies?
Asking Good Sales Questions
11 February 2014 by Charles Howden
Why can’t your transactional sellers ask good sales questions?
Can you put a £/$ value to each component of your value proposition?
03 February 2014 by Charles Howden
Helping your prospect get a firm grasp of the £/$ value of your proposition moves the sales discussion into the territory of value, and when you are having a discussion at this level, issues around pricing fade into the background. Have you found this?
How are your sellers advancing their sales opportunities?
10 January 2014 by Charles Howden
How are your sellers creating urgency?
Leading or Lagging Indicators – What’s the split in your sales meetings?
03 September 2013 by Charles Howden
It’s almost inevitable that sales meetings focus on sales figures, but where should the focus be? Is it better to spend time pouring over sales figures from the previous period (lagging indicators) past the time that anything useful can be learned from them, or should time be focused on activity for the next period, supported by plans and targets (leading indicators).
What’s your problem, Marketing or Sales?
02 July 2013 by Charles Howden
Do you have enough prospects to sell to? But just can’t close them? In which case you primarily have a sales problem. Or, are you short of prospects to sell to, in which case you have a marketing issue.
Sometimes to change your sales results you need to change your language…
31 January 2013 by Charles Howden
Top sellers and linguistic studies have suggested that the use of the following words and language structures reduce the chances of reaching agreement in a sales context.
These are a collection of our views about the world of selling, though please feel free to disagree and share you own views with us.
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