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    Blog Category // Value Selling System (11)

    Would you prefer your sales people to be heroes or pragmatists?

    What I have to say probably won’t go down particularly well with a sector of the sales improvement community whose primary ...

    Stop trying to sell to the wrong organisations!

    I want to turn my attention in this article to a pattern I see repeated across a number of the clients that have approached ...

    Competing against "do nothing" and "do something completely different"

    Complex B2B buying decisions are fundamentally exercises in change management and in an increasing number of cases even ...

    The essence of successful positioning

    When it comes to positioning (and getting your message across), most B2B sales organisations face either a crowded or a ...

    What causes your prospects to start searching for solutions?

    Even if you’ve managed to focus on the critical issues that matter most to your prospects, profiled and targeted your ideal ...

    In Complex B2B Sales there are 3 key stakeholder groups

    The idea that complex B2B buying decisions inevitably involve multiple stakeholders is widely acknowledged, even if the ...

    Targeting Change Agents

    One of the biggest challenges for any sales person when qualifying a new potential sales opportunity is judging whether the ...

    Identifying your Ideal Customers

    Companies (and individual sales people) can and often do waste an awful amount of time, money and energy pursuing ...

    The Case for Focusing on Critical Problems

    Our prospective customers will always have many more potential issues than they can possibly afford to address in the short ...

    Striving for Mutually Meaningful Value

    There’s a gratifying amount of attention being paid nowadays to the idea that sales people need to focus on creating genuine ...