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The Sales Process Was Designed to Solve the Sales Organizations Problems

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We are evolving our approaches too slowly and need to innovate faster. As you start to recognize how much professional sales has changed and how impotent the legacy approaches are, you start to realize just how many structures and strategies were designed to solve the sales organization’s problems, not create value for the client.

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From Legacy to Modern Sales Approaches | Part 1

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The Gist: The legacy laggard approach to sales is transactional, even if some versions have added a few modern strategies. The legacy solution approach moved us away from transactional models, in response to what clients needed from a salesperson. Legacy Laggard Approaches. Legacy Solutions.

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How to Deal with Legacy Approach Buyers

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The Gist: Even though there is a lot of criticism aimed at legacy sales approaches, there is nothing similar when it comes to legacy buying approaches. The legacy buying approaches tend to treat complex sales as if they were transactional. Transact You! Real knowledge comes from direct experience.

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The New Sales Conversation

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Clients increasingly find traditional sales approaches to be inadequate—and it’s causing them to avoid salespeople. There is a new sales conversation , and it shares little with legacy sales techniques of 10, 25, or even 50 years ago. Legacy approaches were mainly designed to solve the salesperson’s problems, not the client’s problems.

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From Legacy to Modern Sales Approaches, Information | Part 3

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But because our sales approaches fall into three different generations, each different in some meaningful way, some salespeople still haven’t recognized what buyers value. From Legacy to Modern Sales Approaches Parts 1-2: Part 1 | Approaches. Legacy Laggard: Products and Services.

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From Legacy to Modern Sales Approaches, Locus of Value | Part 8

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The legacy laggard approach to sales views the product as the main source of value for prospective clients. The legacy solution approach to sales finds value in the solution the salesperson provides. The modern approach utilizes the salesperson’s insights, advice, and recommendations to create value in conversations.

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The Commoditization of the Discovery Call

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A more modern approach starts with a different type of discovery, one that has not yet been commoditized. There is now a new sales conversation, one built around delivering a better prospective client experience and improving your odds of winning the deal. The Gist: Clients don’t change when they are not compelled to change.

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