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How to Time Your Value Creation

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The Gist: It is critically important to guide your clients through the conversations necessary to improving their results. It’s also important that you have the right conversations at the right time. Time each conversation based on its ability to create value for decision-makers and your other contacts.

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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. The reason is simple: you have to create the value your clients need to solve a new set of problems than they faced in the past. The Salesperson’s Dilemma.

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The Problem with Problems and Pain

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The Gist: It is no longer enough to identify your client’s problem, especially when it’s already well-known. Less than half of salespeople reach their quota and more than half of buyers don’t change, evidence that what we’re doing isn’t working. But before I share it, we need to look at some numbers: 57% and 67%.

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What to Track About Your Competitors

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There is nothing you can do about how your rivals compete. You should, however, know their approach so you can counter their strategies. Chances are, you worry too much about your competition. For one thing, you can’t really do anything about how your competitors go about pursuing deals.

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Why Your Next Lead Is No Better Than the Last

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Recency bias will cause you to believe that a new lead will be easier to convert, even though this isn’t true. It is a mistake to believe that recent means better when all leads share common traits, one being helping clients on their buyer’s journey. Why You Want to Believe a New Lead Is Better.

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How Your Client Justifies Buying from You

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The outcomes of early conversations have changed, in large part due to our complex environment. This post may be a bitter pill for those who believe their clients buy from them because they like their company, their products, or both. Here are four characteristics of value creation that tip the scales in your direction.

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Legacy Approach vs Modern Sales Conversation Structures

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The idea is that small talk at the beginning of the conversation would help the salesperson connect with their prospective client , making clients more likely to buy. Starting with your company is designed to do two things: prove that your client can trust the company, and provide you (the salesperson) with some level of credibility.