Iannarino

JULY 19, 2021

When the conversation didn’t include our solution, discovery replaced it. When the conversation didn’t include our solution, discovery replaced it. Discover a Problem. This phase would also include a conversation to make sure the solution fits the client’s problem. Rapport-Building. Our Clients.

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Veloxy

AUGUST 6, 2021

This is where discovery calls come to the rescue. Round one of almost all sales pits you against a prospect in the ring by way of discovery call. What is a Discovery Call? Simply put, a discovery call is the first conversation a rep has with a prospect after they show initial interest in a product. 1: Do Your Homework.

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Iannarino

AUGUST 8, 2021

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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Intrinsic Quota Clients B2B 324

Cerebral Selling

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Good salespeople know that the quality of your discovery motion is directly related to the quality of the questions you ask. But when it comes to asking high-value discovery questions there are a few key traps many sellers still fall into. There’s only one problem. Here’s what they are and how you can avoid them!

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Pitch Launch Drivers/motivators Up-sell 157

Partners in Excellence

MAY 22, 2023

Discovery and qualifying are critical to sellers. We use discovery to understand the customer’s needs, problems, requirements. We use discovery to understand the capabilities they seek in looking at solutions. Discovery and qualification are critical to our ability to choose the right deals and win.

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Education Customers Process Closing 123

Iannarino

JULY 8, 2021

The Gist: Most discovery is too shallow to create much value for your prospective clients. Finding the presenting problem is now a superficial, commoditized level of discovery. You create value when you uncover a problem’s root causes and promote deeper understanding. The Problem Behind the Problem.

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Iannarino

JUNE 30, 2021

The gist, I think, was something about having a discovery call to see how her solutions could help me book more meetings with my prospective clients. For some reason, they believe that their prospective clients are interested in a “discovery call.” First, only salespeople call them discovery calls—prospects just call them meetings.

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Prospecting Cold Call Pitch Clients 270

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 6, 2023

We get the Discovery process wrong–period, full stop. Most of the time we actually fail to do discovery. Look at your inbox, I suspect 95% of the prospecting mails you have say, “Organizations like yours have this problem–we solve it. “Do you have a problem with sales performance?………

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Iannarino

MARCH 2, 2023

The Earl of Chesterfield For as long as anyone can remember, salespeople have been trained to identify their prospective clients’ problems and their implications. One of the primary differences between the modern and legacy sales approaches is that the modern sales approach recognizes and addresses the buyer's problems and challenges.

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B2B Contact Clients Entertainment 279

Iannarino

JUNE 16, 2021

You win and lose deals in discovery. Both of the legacy approaches (legacy laggard and legacy solutions) place a high premium on the salesperson learning the client’s need or their problem. Few salespeople would disagree that “you win and lose deals in discovery,” especially this writer. Legacy Solution: Discover a Problem.

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Clients Sales Prospecting Conversion 158

Cerebral Selling

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

After all, the prospect agreed that solving the problem was important and we even helped them quantify the value of making the purchase. Indeed, the customer may have considered solving the problem to be important. Importance is the size and magnitude of the problem the customer is looking to solve. the real reason they buy).

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Iannarino

JULY 3, 2021

Let’s tease this apart, since the problem is not the medium but the message. The Gist: No one likes getting a straight pitch on LinkedIn. That approach is treated as “spam.”. You can make the same mistakes when making a cold call by using the same flawed techniques. As a professional courtesy, I accept cold calls.

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SalesLoft

MAY 13, 2024

Trend 1: Discussing timing is critical in early conversations When there are timelines or time-window mentions as part of an early stage discovery meeting, win rates trend upwards by as much as 14%. Here we’ll take a deeper look at two trends we found. When is your current contract up? Why is this?

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Force Management

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The best channel enablement programs equip their partners with the ability to communicate their value proposition and give them the ability to answer essential questions on their behalf: • What problems do we solve for our customers? How do we specifically solve these problems with your solution? • What is our proof?

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Negotiate Education Market share Growth 137

Iannarino

JULY 6, 2021

Likewise, traditional discovery doesn’t create the same value as sense-making, since it seeks out a problem without explaining why the problem exists in the first place. The direct path from discovery to “solution” was once a reliable and rapid path to a won deal. You Make Sense of Their World.

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Clients Contract Contact Conversion 320

A Sales Guy

JUNE 16, 2021

However, if we take a deeper look, the results here highlight a GROSS problem in sales and one that plagues almost every sales organization in the world. ” For the purposes of the rest of this post, diagnosing a problem is both the ability to ask questions AND listen. The Sales world is desperate for an upgrade.

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CRM Prospecting Follow-up Conversion 163

Iannarino

JULY 14, 2021

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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Conversion Sales Clients Technique 322

Cerebral Selling

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Effectively navigating this type of sensitive sales conversation requires mastering a combination of foundational messaging, discovery, and objection handling tactics, delivered with the right tone and approach. my CFO is asking me to put together a “recession plan”. call me back when the storm passes. call me back when the storm passes.

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Objection handling Sales Construction Growth 207

Sales Hacker

APRIL 25, 2023

And too often, I see salespeople taking the quick and lazy path on discovery calls — the path that alienates and annoys the very prospects they’re trying to win over. You might call this discovery , but it’s actually more like scoping — that is, determining the scope of the eventual job. What is the main problem you’re facing?

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Iannarino

JULY 20, 2021

Believing that someone or something else is the root cause of all your problems debilitates your progress and your ability to produce the results you need. The continued commoditization of the discovery call is inadequate for a modern sales approach. The Gist: Your clients have expectations for how you use the time they give you.

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Clients B2B Up-sell Gaming 321

Iannarino

JULY 25, 2021

This view has some more serious problems. I would argue that knowing what your client’s pain is a rather shallow form of discovery, one that is generally used only to propose a solution. The Gist: Too many salespeople still believe that consultative selling means asking the client about their pain. They may also need to hire people.

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Salesforce

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Imagine the sensation he felt in that moment, the sensation of discovery. You’re on a discovery call with a prospect, searching for a justification to pitch your product, when all of a sudden, there it is: a bright, expensive problem that only you can solve. What you’ll learn: What is a discovery call?

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Pitch Trust Transportation Objectives and Key Results 59

ClickFunnels

AUGUST 17, 2021

Schedule a discovery call. Schedule a discovery call. Continue reading… Table of Contents Find Prospects Conduct Research Reach Out to Prospects Schedule a Discovery Call Manage Leads Is Sales Prospecting Outdated? The post The Best Sales Prospecting Tools To Use For Your Business appeared first on ClickFunnels.

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Prospecting CRM Price Pitch 244

Partners in Excellence

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Our questioning and discovery strategies each have an agenda, we seek answers that enable us to pitch. It’s not just about what’s happening in their business—their problems, their opportunities, their challenges. We are driven to pitch our products and solutions. Somehow, our customers are lost in the process.

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Customers Negotiate Pitch Trust 123

Iannarino

JULY 4, 2021

Too Committed to Identifying a Problem. For a very long time, salespeople were taught that doing discovery means identifying a problem. Once you discover the problem, you open up the opportunity to insert your solution, solving the problem. But they’re not the only threat out there. No more pushy sales tactics.

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Contract Contact Clients Conversion 336

Search Engine Land

MAY 9, 2024

It’s a human-centered framework for problem-solving the way a designer would – by setting out to solve a problem using creativity rather than data alone. The best SEO strategy optimizes for consumer discovery by understanding the people who are searching. One of the things I love about SEO is its inherent duality. See terms.

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A/B testing Entertainment Engineering Campaign 88

Iannarino

JULY 22, 2021

The Gist: One of the primary obstacles to better results is a refusal to unlearn poor techniques. Many still believe that all that is needed to produce greater results is “more activity.”. Unlearning and relearning is a better and more certain path to greater effectiveness. Alvin Toffler. This formula can result in a positive or a negative number.

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Sales Gravy

MARCH 28, 2023

On this special episode of the Sales Gravy Podcast, Sales Gravy Senior Master Sales Trainer Brad Adams and bestselling author of Coffee's for Closers, Tony Morris, dive into the art of great discovery, how to ask questions that build rapport and create engagement, and why better questions set the groundwork for better results.

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Negotiate Education Pipeline Presentation 83

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 1, 2022

In our prospecting and discovery calls, we focus on their need for a solution–our solution. We may start in the right place, trying to understand the customer needs or problems, but we steer our follow up to our products as quickly as possible. We don’t understand what problems these create.

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Process Follow-up Up-sell Start-ups 82

Salesmate

JUNE 9, 2020

Discovery call” is one of the most important parts of the initial sales process that’s not taken seriously by most of the sales reps. Discovery call” is one of the most important parts of the initial sales process that’s not taken seriously by most of the sales reps. What is a discovery call? So, do not take it lightly.

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Sales Prospecting CRM Quota 125

A Sales Guy

MAY 3, 2020

A sales discovery meeting is by far the most important part of a sales process. There is no more important element to selling than the discovery process. Discoveries like this aren’t even worth the time. Yet, too many salespeople fail at it. They get lost in the questions. It will be just as effective.

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Pitch Service Sell Presentation 128

The 5% Institute

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Gap selling discovery questions are a crucial part of the sales process and can be the difference winning the sale, or getting another “I need to think about it” objection. There are various kinds of gap selling discovery questions; from learning how they buy, to handling sales objections early and finding pain points and desire.

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Sell Clients Technique Closing 145

Tibor Shanto

AUGUST 24, 2021

Discovery is an opportunity for prospects to discover things about them, not you discovering what pain you can solve. Discovery is an opportunity for prospects to discover things about them, not you discovering what pain you can solve. By Tibor Shanto. If you are truly curious, read on, and watch the video below. Curious About Life.

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Objectives and Key Results Quota Technique Prospecting 326

The 5% Institute

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The sales discovery process is one of the most important parts of the sales process framework, because it can be the difference between starting a new relationship with a client or revisiting the process for a new potential client. But what is a sales discovery process? What you should do prior to the sales discovery process.

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Process Sales Clients Presentation 141

Iannarino

JUNE 19, 2021

Part 4 | Discovery. It might seem like the problem here is the product. It might seem like the problem here is the product. The Gist: In a transactional sale, the salesperson has too little power to lead the client. In the legacy solution approach, the salesperson must negotiate a linear sales process. Part 3 | Information.

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Negotiate Clients Sales Conversion 193

Partners in Excellence

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Continuing my series on selling skills we thought we knew but really don’t understand, I’m want to focus on Discovery. It’s a natural follow on to qualifying–actually it’s a complement, qualifying and discovery go hand in hand. Some misunderstanding we have about discovery.

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Sell Process Customers Closing 75

Gong.io

MAY 4, 2021

I was four slides into my discovery deck, thinking everything was going smoothly. I was four slides into my discovery deck, thinking everything was going smoothly. The call died because – according to our new data – selling with slides backfires on discovery calls. the discovery call) in your sales cycle. I froze. .

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