Competitive Sales: The Six Key Principles for Simplifying Business Sales

Author: Rick Page (USA)
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: The reason our company is favored by customers for the stories described in this book is that the materials we use to illustrate our process theory are either real-life examples from our experience as salespeople or sales managers, or genuine experiences of our clients. These stories closely connect theory with the real world, bringing concepts to life. We have framed the sales stories and presented relevant historical cases in the same way, allowing readers to choose whether to skip them or delve deeper based on their interests. The essence of this book consists of six chapters, which introduce key aspects of complex sales. To emphasize these points, each chapter concludes with a summary. The uniqueness of this book When I was still a sales manager, I came across a book about sales strategies. The book stated that sales strategies are essential but abruptly stopped without providing any actual strategies. In the field of consultative selling, there are indeed several good books, but they overlook competition. There are also training courses on how to deal with competition and political selling, but they fail to mention how to solve customer problems, as if success in sales could be achieved solely through political maneuvering without emphasizing customer benefits. This book is a book that balances both aspects and goes beyond them. Here, we integrate the most effective behaviors from the fields of consulting, competition, politics, and team selling into a simple and practical strategy process, ensuring we win the order and gain the customer. The main focus of this book is the "opportunity management" process for B2B direct sales. Our emphasis is on how to develop a sales strategy that sells solutions to multi-level buyers in a competitive evaluation environment through team selling. Regarding the competitive evaluation section, our goal is to win the evaluation before it begins through proactive customer management or simply convince the customer to abandon the competitive evaluation. The materials we use to illustrate our process theory are either real-life examples from our experience as salespeople or sales managers, or genuine experiences of our clients. These stories closely connect theory with the real world, bringing concepts to life. This book will take your sales team to a new level.