But I think sales people need to go further--I think sales people need to hold the customer accountable for qualifying the opportunity---is it real for them?
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Dabrock voted on the following stories on BizSugar
Are Your Customers Doing The Right Job Of Qualification?
Posted by dabrock under SalesFrom http://partnersinexcellenceblog.com 4680 days ago
Challenger Buying!
Posted by dabrock under SalesFrom http://partnersinexcellenceblog.com 4681 days ago
But Challenger Buying is, to say the least, very challenging for the customer---more so than it is for the sales person to do Challenger Selling. At it's core, it's about risk, change, readiness, and priorities.
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If you aren't achieving your goals, are you really looking at what's happening. Are you seeing things the way they are or the way you want them to be? Facing reality is the only path to performance improvement.
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Stacking The Deck!
Posted by dabrock under SalesFrom http://partnersinexcellenceblog.com 4683 days ago
I'm not sure that customers want to create a level playing field. I think customers want to stack the decks in their favor---in favor of helping them achieve their goals, and produce results. If we do our job right--we can align ourselves with the customer, stacking the deck to allow each of us ach
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It's All In Your Head!
Posted by dabrock under SalesFrom http://partnersinexcellenceblog.com 4688 days ago
It is impossible to keep it all in our heads! We need to document our plans, we need to use the plans to guide our actions, keeping us focused, on target, moving forward purposefully in the execution of our strategies. We need to document our plans--they provide the basis for what we do every day.
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A Different Take On Challenging Conversations
Posted by dabrock under SalesFrom http://partnersinexcellenceblog.com 4689 days ago
Don't get me wrong. To engage in these business conversations, we have to understand business---both business in general, but more specifically our customers and their businesses. We have to analyze their businesses, we have to look at opportunities they are missing, things they can do differently,
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What If We're Not Important? Part 2
Posted by dabrock under SalesFrom http://partnersinexcellenceblog.com 4690 days ago
The issue is are we important enough for the customers to invest in now? We may have great business cases, but regardless how compelling the business case, if we aren't at the top of the hit parade of our customers' strategic initiatives, we won't get the order.
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What If We're Not Important?
Posted by dabrock under SalesFrom http://partnersinexcellenceblog.com 4690 days ago
See things have changed. Regardless how compelling our value proposition, how great the business case, how much the functional or departmental executives may argue for our solution, executives aren't finding the money. More than ever before, executives are investing in things that support their str
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Performance Management Friday -- Abandoned Deals
Posted by dabrock under SalesFrom http://partnersinexcellenceblog.com 4692 days ago
There is a hidden performance and resource drain that can have a dramatic impact on our success. It's the abandoned deal.
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What Happens When The Customer Doesn't Raise His Hand?
Posted by dabrock under SalesFrom http://partnersinexcellenceblog.com 4692 days ago
Creating great value for the customer, developing meaningful relationships requires a careful balance of push and pull. They can't exist by themselves--we can't have push only strategies, nor can we have pull only strategies. We have to purposefully execute both.
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