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    Understanding your customer's decision journey

    Understanding your customer's decision journey

    It’s falsely comforting to think of selling as a process in which one step follows logically after another. But although rigidly defined processes might be the best way of running a manufacturing production line, they completely fail to reflect the realityof any moderately ...

    Understanding B2B Buying Behaviour

    In any high-value complex B2B sales environments involving new projects with multiple stakeholders, the buying behaviours ...

    Avoiding the Value-Added Trap

    An earlier version of this article was first published in the November 2019 edition of Top Sales Magazine. Every sales ...

    Sales people need to act like personal trainers, not bartenders

    In a recent article for the CEB, Andrew Kent posed the question “Are your reps bartenders or personal trainers?” It’s a ...

    Assumptions kill opportunities

    I’ve had the opportunity to sit in on a number of QBRs with my clients, and as an outside observer I’m struck by how common ...

    The why, how, what and who of sales checklists

    When Harvard Medical School Professor (and BBC Reith Lecturer) Atul Gawande published his “Checklist Manifesto” nearly 10 ...

    Sales perfection is impossible!

    There are so many potential variables and unknowns in any complex B2B sales environment that the idea of running a ...

    Please tell me something I don’t already know

    Corporate Visions recently hosted a webinar on how to gain access to business executives. Their findings were based on a ...

    The most important thing a proposal needs to sell

    When your salespeople submit a proposal, it should always represent the natural culmination of a series of value creating ...

    Selling against the status quo

    You’re probably all too well aware of the statistic that the majority of apparently well-qualified complex B2B buying ...