How Consultative Is Your Sales Approach?
Iannarino
OCTOBER 9, 2023
One way to improve your sales approach is to be consultative. The more consultative you are, the easier it is to win deals, which is not to suggest winning deals is ever easy.
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Iannarino
OCTOBER 9, 2023
One way to improve your sales approach is to be consultative. The more consultative you are, the easier it is to win deals, which is not to suggest winning deals is ever easy.
Iannarino
APRIL 27, 2023
Many B2B sales representatives believe they are consultative because they ask questions and avoid being pushy. Asking questions alone is not evidence of a consultative approach. Many salespeople ask questions without being consultative.
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Iannarino
MARCH 24, 2022
The evolution of the complex B2B sale has all but eliminated "transactional" approaches and is now moving past "consultative" to something like "super-consultative," or "truly-consultative.".
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MAY 3, 2023
Great consultative salespeople have many attributes that help them guide their decisions and interactions with prospective clients. Great salespeople not only use a consultative selling approach, but they also lead the conversation with a prospect. Many good or average salespeople lack these important sales attributes.
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The Gist: Too many salespeople still believe that consultative selling means asking the client about their pain. Approaches that don’t provide advice and recommendations aren’t valuable enough to call consultative. He continued, “There is an incongruence in what people think consultative selling is.
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