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ProActive Selling William Miller

ProActive Selling By William Miller

ProActive Selling by William Miller


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Sales strategy shouldn't use a one-size-fits-all approach. Discover the seventeen exclusive, practical selling tools that will give you the edge you need to exceed your unique sales goals.

ProActive Selling Summary

ProActive Selling: Control the Process--Win the Sale by William Miller

True sales pros know they must tailor their methods to the buyer if they want to make their numbers every year.

Featuring dozens of enlightening examples, this book gives you the tools to adapt your approach with the buyers in mind and maintain control at every stage of the sale.

In ProActive Selling, author William Miller shows salespeople how to:

  • qualify and disqualify prospects sooner,
  • shift their focus to the most promising accounts,
  • examine buyers' motivations from every angle,
  • quantify the value proposition early,
  • double the number of calls returned from prospective customers,
  • appeal to the real decision-makers,
  • use technology (e.g. cloud, video, social media, etc) to generate leads and shorten sales cycles,
  • and increase the effectiveness of every interaction.

Most sales professionals make the mistake of using the same sales patterns over and over. With an essential understanding about the different needs of customers, this revised and updated second edition of ProActive Selling equips you to succeed with any company, in any industry.

About William Miller

William (Skip) Miller learned the hard way that being unprepared for cold-calling is a surefire way to lose your job when he started his career in sales, quitting after only one day on his first job. He learned from his mistakes and is now President of M3 Learning, a ProActive Sales Management and Sales Training Company and is the sales training leader in Silicon Valley. Skip has provided training to tens of thousands of sales people and hundreds of companies in over 35 countries. This is his seventh book.

Table of Contents

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: ProActive Selling: Having the Right Tools

at the Right Time to Be a Step Ahead

Tool-Based ProActive Selling

The Customer's Perspective

What Is a Buy/Sell Process?

TOWARDS/AWAYTool

Matching the Sell Process to the Buy Process

The Length of a Sales Cycle

Why Follow a Process?

Chapter 2: The Buy/Sell Cycle Differences

Feature/Benefit/Value Selling vs. Feature/Benefit Selling

Feature/Benefit/ValueTool

The Split

Cause/EffectTool

Chapter 3: The Language of Value

Speak the Right Language

Three LanguagesTool

The Five Ways of Creating Value

ValueStarTool

TimeZonesTool

Chapter 4: Initiate

Goals of Initiate

Homework Before the Sale

Initial Sales Calls: Overcoming the Fear of Prospecting

The Prospector's Perspective

The Prospect's Perspective-Something to Keep in Mind

Chapter 5: How to Begin and End Every Sales Call

Goal 1: Introduce Yourself-The Beginning

The 30-Second SpeechTool

FlipTool

Goal 2: Introduce Your Product/Service-The Middle

Goal 3: Do We Continue on Through a Buy/Sell Process?-The End

Summarize, Bridge, and PullTool

Chapter 6: Additional Sales Call Introductions

Voice Mail

20-Second Help SpeechTool

20-Second Pattern Interrupt SpeechTool

E-Mails

Beyond the First Call

30-Second Speech: Second Call and BeyondTool

Chapter 7: Control the Middle and the End

Turn Sales Education into ProActive Sales Presentations

Ask 'em/Tell 'em/Ask 'emTool

It's All About ME!

The Danger in the Unspoken Feature

The Right Order

GAP ChartTool

Road Map to the Deal

SalesMapTool

Chapter 8: Educate the Customer Using

Two-Way Learning

Creating Value Early

Getting Their Attention

Selling Solutions and Finding Trains

Solution BoxTool

Finding TrainsTool

Chapter 9: Qualify: Not a Phase but a Process

Qualification and Disqualification Skills

How You Should Spend Your Time

Qualifying Goals

MMM: The Qualification Process

The Seven Questions

Implementation DateTool

BBB-Buyers Buy BackwardsTool

PPPIITool

Three Levels of WhyTool

MMM: The Seven Questions Reviewed

Chapter 10: Validate

The ProActive Initiation of Transfer of Ownership

It's Validation, Not Education!

Let the Buyer Drive: ProActively Inducing the Transfer of Ownership

TimeDemoTool

Homework Assignments

Gives/GetsTool

Chapter 11: Justify

Reasons for Justification: Institutional and Individual

Helping the Customer Justify

The Implementation PlanTool

The Drop/Push/PullTool

CliffDiveTool

STT-Short-Term TransferTool

Chapter 12: The Skill of Closing the Deal

What Is a Close?

Defining the Process

Use the Tools

The Real Art of Closing Is in the Definition: Think Like a Buyer

Celebrate Success

Chapter 13: Using Technology to Sell

Sales Touches

Social Media: Getting Involved

Technology Trends

Chapter 14: Applying the ProActive Selling Process

Implementing the New Rules

The Three Languages

The Final Word

Appendix: ProActive Selling Tools

Index

Additional information

GOR008289833
9780814431924
0814431925
ProActive Selling: Control the Process--Win the Sale by William Miller
Used - Very Good
Paperback
HarperCollins Focus
20180322
240
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