Master Consultative Selling with High Gain Questions: Techniques for Effective B2B Sales
Iannarino
JUNE 7, 2024
Unlock the true potential of consultative selling by mastering high-gain questions that drive meaningful client conversations.
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Iannarino
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Bad questions are bad selling. You need a client-centric sales approach, one with effective strategies and a value-driven sales methodology.
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Sandler Training
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Iannarino
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There is a logic to identifying and pursuing 60 dream clients. These 60 clients already buy what you sell; in fact, some of your competitors are supplying them now.
Iannarino
DECEMBER 21, 2023
There are some who believe that B2B buying and selling have not changed over the last two decades. An unwillingness to face these changes head-on has caused sales organizations to continue using the legacy approach.
Iannarino
JULY 20, 2021
The Gist: Your clients have expectations for how you use the time they give you. The new sales conversation has shifted to new areas where buyers need greater help. Low win rates, missed goals, and a host of other trends likewise suggest that salespeople are not serving their clients well enough.
Anthony Cole Training
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There are specific traits that skilled salespeople possess in order to build strong relationships with prospects or clients. They create a great client experience by providing value, asking the right questions, listening to understand, and demonstrating patience.
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Your belief is a major factor in the energy, effort, and activity that you put forth in the lead generation activity to fill your funnel and the sales conversations that convert those prospects. Beliefs’ Impact on Your Sales Your level of belief constantly changes. This baseline moves all day long. Stretch, stretch, stretch.
Iannarino
AUGUST 20, 2023
There are two ways you might sell. The first uses a transactional sales approach in which the sales rep takes an order. After this initial transaction, the salesperson will need to acquire another order from that same client.
Iannarino
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
While there is nothing wrong with making things easy for your clients or customers, in B2B sales most attempts to make things easier make selling difficult. One office store used the “easy button” in their promotions. They even had easy buttons available for purchase in their stores.
Iannarino
AUGUST 3, 2021
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. In short, getting ghosted may be the natural result of how you approached the sales conversation.
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Iannarino
MARCH 2, 2024
These targets will not need to be qualified because you know they already buy what you sell, even though they are currently buying from one of your competitors. This is something we describe as a competitive displacement , a nicer way of saying "stealing your competitor's client."
Sales Pop!
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The sales effort is useless unless you are 100% behind an idea, product, or service. Hence, selling to yourself proceeds selling to clients. Anyone on a sales job has no doubt paused to question what they are to sell upon hearing a new announcement. Why do I perceive risk or uncertainty?
Iannarino
JANUARY 17, 2022
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.
Iannarino
NOVEMBER 26, 2023
If you believe selling is challenging, know that buying is even more difficult. The better we learn to sell, the greater our ability to engender trust from our clients and our prospective clients.
Iannarino
JULY 10, 2021
The Gist: Preparation can improve your ability to deal with client conversations, especially difficult ones. It is critical that you know your desired outcomes, as well as what your client needs from you. I almost called this post “How to Have a Difficult Conversation with Your Client.” Determine What Your Client Needs from You.
Iannarino
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Iannarino
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Iannarino
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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. 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.
Iannarino
MAY 14, 2023
Those of us who have had the experience of selling in a highly commoditized industry adapt to the lack of differentiation. Even if your company does something different than your competitors, your prospective clients aren’t likely to find this compelling.
Iannarino
JUNE 26, 2021
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.
Iannarino
JULY 7, 2021
The Gist: The legacy approaches to sales are inadequate for today’s environment. 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. Execute your best sales calls with this FREE Sales Call Planner.
Iannarino
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
The most consultative salespeople feel different from other sales reps. Much of what they do looks like a magic trick to their prospects and clients. There are five magic tricks that impress their prospects and clients. There are five magic tricks that impress their prospects and clients.
Veloxy
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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.
Sales Hacker
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Iannarino
NOVEMBER 5, 2023
The first type, and arguably the most common, is a salesperson who needs something from their prospective client. The second type believes they can fulfill a client’s need. We can divide salespeople into two types.
Iannarino
SEPTEMBER 18, 2022
The idea behind needs-based selling is knowing what your client needs. Once you understand the client's needs, you position your solution by explaining how it meets the client's needs.
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Partners in Excellence
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The 5% Institute
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Do your lenders provide your prospects and clients with the consultative financial and business advice that establishes value and makes you rate-resistant? One of the areas where we are spending a significant amount of training time in 2022 is on sales negotiation strategies, value-based selling, as well as sales negotiation techniques.
Iannarino
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Selling is challenging enough without having to do it at a distance. While the combination of video and audio is better than audio alone, it doesn't come close to being in the room with your prospective client. However, post-pandemic, virtual selling is here to stay.
Iannarino
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
In 2016, I published a book titled The Only Sales Guide You'll Ever Need. In the chapter on Accountability, I wrote that you sell "outcomes," making the case that your prospective client isn't interested in your product or your service. Your clients would love to produce the outcome without buying your product or solution!
Iannarino
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Iannarino
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Iannarino
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