The Collaborative Sale: Solution Selling in a Buyer Driven World
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The Collaborative Sale: Solution Selling in a Buyer Driven World
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Overview
The Collaborative Sale: Solution Selling in Today's Customer-Driven World is the definitive guide to the new reality of sales. The roles of buyers, sellers, and technology have changed, and collaboration is now the key to success on all sides. The Collaborative Sale guides sales professionals toward alignment with buyers, by helping them overcome their problems and challenges, and creating value. From building a robust opportunity pipeline and predicting future revenues to mastering the nuances of buyer conversations, the book contains the information sales professionals need to remain relevant in today's sales environment.
Buyers have become more informed and more empowered. As a result, most sellers now enter the buying process at a much later stage than the traditional norm. The rise of information access has given buyers more control over their purchases than ever before, and sellers must adapt to survive. The Collaborative Sale provides a roadmap for adapting through sales collaboration, detailing the foundations, personae, and reality of the new marketplace. The book provides insight into the new buyer thought processes, the new sales personae required for dealing with the new buyers, and how to establish and implement a dynamic sales process. Topics include:
- Selling in times of economic uncertainty, broad information access, and new buyer behavior
- Why collaboration is so important to the new buyers
- The emergence of new sales personae – Micro-marketer, Visualizer, and Value Driver
- Buyer alignment, risk mitigation, and the myth of control
- Situational fluency, and the role of technology
- Focused sales enablement, and buyer-aligned learning and development
- Implementation and establishment of a dynamic sales process
The book describes the essential competencies for collaborative selling, and provides indispensable supplemental tools for implementation. Written by recognized authorities with insights into global markets, The Collaborative Sale: Solution Selling in Today's Customer-Driven World is the essential resource for today's sales professional.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781118872420 |
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| Publisher: | Wiley |
| Publication date: | 03/31/2014 |
| Pages: | 240 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d) |
About the Author
TIMOTHY T. SULLIVAN is the Director of Business Development for Sales Performance International. Tim is a frequent public speaker and published author on advanced sales and marketing practices.
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Table of Contents
Foreword Dave Stein xiPreface xv
Acknowledgments xix
Definitions xxi
Part I Foundations of the Collaborative Sale 1
1 “The Story” and What’s behind The Collaborative Sale 3
The Collaborative Sale 7
What Is Sales Collaboration? 9
2 Solution Selling Meets the New Buyer 13
The Emergence of the New Buyer—Buyer 2.0 16
The Effect of Information Access on Buyer 2.0 Behavior 16
The Millennials Are Coming 21
The Effect of Economic Uncertainty on Buyer 2.0 Behavior 23
Buyer 2.0 versus Buyer 1.0 27
Adapting to the Buyer 2.0 Paradigm 28
The Relevancy of Solution Selling and the Evolution of the Collaborative Sale 33
The Story (Continued) 35
3 What the New Buyers Expect: Situational Fluency 39
Seller Agility 42
Situational Fluency 44
Components of Situational Fluency 45
Hiring for Situational Fluency 50
Developing Situational Fluency 51
Technology’s Role in Situational Fluency 53
Part II Three Personae of the Collaborative Sale 57
4 The Micro-Marketer Persona 59
Why Be a Micro-Marketer? 60
Micro-Marketers Demonstrate Situational Fluency—With Constraint 62
Micro-Marketers Create Their Own Personal Brand 63
Planning and Executing a Micro-Marketer Strategy 66
Enabling the Micro-Marketer Persona 74
The Story (Continued) 82
5 The Visualizer Persona 85
What Is a Visualizer? 85
Buyer States and Strength of Vision 91
Visualizer Conversations 95
Embracing the Visualizer Persona 99
The Story (Continued) 101
6 The Value Driver Persona 105
Focusing on Value 107
What Is the Value Driver Persona? 107
Using a Collaboration Plan—A Buyer Alignment and Risk Mitigation Strategy 115
The Myth of Control 118
Create an Online Collaboration Site 119
Collaborating to Close 121
Enabling the Value Driver Persona 122
The Story (Continued) 124
Part III Making the Collaborative Sale a Reality 127
7 Establishing a Dynamic Sales Process 129
Buyer-Aligned Sales Process 134
Dynamic Sales Process 135
Automating Dynamic Sales Processes 137
Expanding the View of Sales Process 138
Sales Process Enables Management and Marketing 140
8 Coaching the Collaborative Sale 143
Sales Management Cadence 144
Motivation 151
9 Implementing the Collaborative Sale 157
Right Process: Buyer-Aligned Learning and Development 159
Right People: Talent Assessment and Analytics 162
Right Tools: Focused Enablement 167
Committing to Success—Individually and Organizationally 177
Epilogue 179
Afterword 181
Appendix 183
Essential Competencies for The Collaborative Sale 183
Additional Collaborative Selling Tools 186
Contributors 195
Keith M. Eades 195
Timothy T. Sullivan 195
Robert Kear 196
James N. “Jimmy” Touchstone 197
Dave Christofaro 197
Kenneth Cross 198
Tamela M. Rich 198
Index 199