The New Solution Selling : The Revolutionary Sales Process That is Changing the Way People Sell

The New Solution Selling : The Revolutionary Sales Process That is Changing the Way People Sell
ISBN: 9780071435390
Publication Date: 12 December 2003

The Powerful and Proven Solution Selling(r) Process, Updated for Today's High-Speed, Higher-Pressure Sales Challenges The original Solution Selling rewrote the rules for the sales profession. Today, the revolutionary yet practical Solution Selling method remains the primary selling process for salespeople competing in every industry around the world, and in every size of business--from the smallest firms to the largest Fortune 500 corporations. The New Solution Selling comprehensively updates this proven effective approach to help you succeed with today's no-nonsense markets and buyers. A practical guide designed to provide hands-on value to frontline salespeople as well as sales managers and executives, this step-by-step book shows you how to streamline the sales process by: Understanding your buyers, their situations and, most importantly, their needs Supplying mutually defined solutions to your customers' recognized problems Gaining access to key decision makers Controlling the buying process Defining milestones that can be measured and forecasted Solution Selling first won its well-earned reputation among technology companies.Now The New Solution Selling shows how the same principles and process may be applied to any business relationship in any industry. This results-based book will show you how to improve your sales performance by first understanding your customers' challenges--and then providing intelligent, accessible, and field-proven solutions to those challenges. "We have put the principles of Solution Selling(r) at the core of our selling process--helping all of our 5,000-strong sales professionals, and thousands of Microsoft's business partners, consistently apply proven sales principles to make a real difference to our customers and meet expectation...