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The Problem with Problems and Pain

Iannarino

The Gist: It is no longer enough to identify your client’s problem, especially when it’s already well-known. To solve your client’s problem, you have to solve the problems that prevent them from solving the problem. To solve your client’s problem, you have to solve the problems that prevent them from solving the problem.

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The Sales Process Was Designed to Solve the Sales Organizations Problems

Iannarino

The Gist: It’s heresy to say so, but the sales process was designed to solve the sales organization’s problems. We now have to do the work of accelerating our strategies and tactics to architect a new sales conversation, one that solves the client’s problems with solving their problems. You need to make sales.

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The New Sales Conversation

Iannarino

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. Legacy approaches were mainly designed to solve the salesperson’s problems, not the client’s problems. For the last thirty years we have focused on their “problems,” the key to proposing a “solution.”

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Legacy Approach vs Modern Sales Conversation Structures

Iannarino

Discover a Problem. In the legacy solution approach, the primary function of the sales call was to identify or elicit a problem, then fix solve it by providing your solution. This phase would also include a conversation to make sure the solution fits the client’s problem. Rapport-Building. Our Clients. Our Solution.

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How Your First Meeting Repels Your Prospective Client

Iannarino

The problem-pain-solution approach to selling has long been commoditized. The Gist: The way to a second meeting is a valuable first meeting. The reason clients disengage is because the conversation isn’t one they find valuable. A lot of legacy practices prevent second meetings. How to Avoid a Second Meeting.

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What It Means When You Trash Your Competition

Iannarino

The email continued with a list of “pain points,” a menu of the kind of problems that could compel me to change. These problems, he concluded, should motivate me to fire my current partner and switch to his company. The Gist: There is never a reason to trash your competition. His email began by asking me (i.e.,

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Navigating the B2B Maze: Challenges in Marketing to Technical Personas

Heinz Marketing

These individuals are deeply entrenched in complex problem-solving and innovation, prioritizing efficiency and functionality. These individuals are deeply entrenched in complex problem-solving and innovation, prioritizing efficiency and functionality.

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