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How Would You Sell Without a Solution

Iannarino

Your prospective clients measure you by how much value you create for them in a number of areas. One way to improve your approach is to remove the crutches you have used to sell. Here is the scenario: You are meeting with your prospective client. You may not mention your product, service, or your solutions.

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How Your First Meeting Repels Your Prospective Client

Iannarino

The reason clients disengage is because the conversation isn’t one they find valuable. You never get a second chance to make a first impression, which means you have a lot riding on your meeting with a new client. The problem-pain-solution approach to selling has long been commoditized. How to Avoid a Second Meeting.

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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.

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Sales Success: Master the Art of Consultative Selling and Outshine Your Competition

Iannarino

One way to express this idea is that your client should make the decision you would make if your contacts asked you to make the decision for them. It can be challenging to convey the point I've been making since the publication of Elite Sales Strategies: A Guide to Being One-Up, Creating Value, and Becoming Truly Consultative.

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Account Based Selling: The Easy Guide for Beginners

Veloxy

Account based selling is a B2B concept that has gained a lot of interest in recent times, but implementing it can feel rather daunting. Studies show that at least 94% of B2B teams have adopted account based selling in a bid to deliver improved buying experiences that lead to increased conversions and loyalty. It doesn’t have to.

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How Sales Effectiveness Impacts Large Clients

Iannarino

Many B2B sales organizations and salespeople believe that selling is more difficult now than in the past, with contacts abandoning conversations early in the process, clients requiring longer sales cycles, and large groups of stakeholders struggling to reach consensus on change.

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How to Double Your Selling Time & Crush Quota (5 Steps)

Veloxy

Back in 2018, Salesforce discovered that sales reps were only spending 34% of their time selling (707 hours a year). Salesforce just found that salespeople are only spending 28% of their time selling. That’s a stunning 125 hours of less selling time than in 2018 ! You’ll add another 300+ selling hours to each rep’s year.

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