What We Know: A Consultative Sales Process
Anthony Cole Training
JULY 8, 2021
On average, salespeople possess only 15% of the attributes required to sell consultatively.
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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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