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How to Time Your Value Creation

Iannarino

The Gist: It is critically important to guide your clients through the conversations necessary to improving their results. Time each conversation based on its ability to create value for decision-makers and your other contacts. There are some conversations that create greater value for your clients earlier in the conversation.

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What Your Clients Can Teach You

Iannarino

The Gist: In the past, salespeople had an advantage created by an information disparity: the salesperson had information unavailable to their client. We spend a lot of time helping our clients by teaching them how to produce the better decisions they need, closing the information disparity gap. What They Value. Their Industry.

Clients 210
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The Source of the Problem is the Problem

Iannarino

The Gist: Most discovery is too shallow to create much value for your prospective clients. Identifying a prospective client’s problem is a tried and true approach, the core of legacy solution selling. Identifying a prospective client’s problem is a tried and true approach, the core of legacy solution selling.

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From Legacy to Modern Sales Approaches, Objections | Part 6

Iannarino

The legacy solution approach to B2B sales added a level of proof, to provide clients with the confidence necessary to adopt their solution. The modern approach requires the ability to resolve difficult concerns that prevent clients from moving forward. From Legacy to Modern Sales Approaches Parts 1-5: Part 1 | Approaches.

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Do You (And Your Customer) Have A Real Deal?

Partners in Excellence

” As sales people, there are dozens of acronyms, if any are applied, you have a “qualified deal.” However, these are for sales people to use, hopefully, in finding good deals to chase. The buying imitative may be real but if it’s not in our ICP, it’s someone else’s deal.

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When The Going Gets Tough

Partners in Excellence

Pile on that changes in the global political/economic situation, exacerbating the challenges from before, prices, particularly energy related skyrocketed. Reducing spending, reducing investments, reducing/eliminating many projects and change initiatives, reducing headcount. Disciplined pipeline and deal management.

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What Is a Sales Cycle and How Do You Optimize It for Consistent Sales?

Salesforce

Let’s take a look at the stages of a sales cycle, and how you can use it to secure regular deal wins. Think of it like the structure of a deal — the building blocks, like lead qualification and sales calls, that need to be stacked in a specific order so it’s possible to drive deals to close. Why is a sales cycle important?