4. Success depends on
Your knowledge volume
How your knowledge is valuable for customers
The ability to work with current customer’s
situation
(Only 15% CEO state that meetings with sales rep were valuable, and
7% out of that agreed on future meetings)
5. A bit better
Move on
Be better day after day
Small continuous improvements
6. Fast learning
Divide in parts
Sequence
Links, connections, associations
Free your mind
Practice
Priority
7. Minimal effective dose
Focus on a “good enough” piece of information
Focus on most valuable information
8. Some Questions to ask
Which products / services were most profitable
last year?
Which products are most attractive?
If I were to sell only one product this year –
what would it be?
What customers are most interested in?
What are the most preferable industries?
Do we depend on a season?
10. What about Status Quo?
Sales Benchmark Index – 60% of
opportunities is lost because of “no decision
was taken”
11. Status Quo Questions:
What happens if leave everything “as is” (no decision)
What would you gain from this change
What would you lose in case of change
What would you have if you don’t change
What would you lose if you don’t change
What is the impact on effectiveness? Costs? Profits?
Other departments?
How does Status Quo affects goal achievement?
What could the reason a company starts changes
What would they run into in case of DIY?
12. Status Quo Questions – part2
What do they buy now
What can we offer, they don’t have
Which changes can make them change their
mind
13. In case of emergency
What happens if “cables” are out of order
What are the direct expenses?
What are the indirect expenses?
Does it influence anything else? Is anything
happens to people and companies?
Why didn’t they change anything else before.
14. Trigger Events
Drupal 6 no longer supported
Parse.com is closed
New IOS version released
New Android version released
I’ve seen you posted a problem about….
16. Thanks to
Presentation was based on Jill Konrath book
“Agile sales”
Author of presentation: Alexey Grakov
Antalika.com – online auction software
VironIT.com – custom software development
Email: alexey@antalika.com