Description
Book SynopsisWhat do winners of major sales do differently than the sellers who almost won, but ultimately came in second place? Mike Schultz and John Doerr, bestselling authors and world-renowned sales experts, set out to find the answer. They studied more than 700 business-to-business purchases made by buyers who represented a total of $3.1 billion in annual purchasing power. When they compared the winners to the second-place finishers, they found surprising results.
Not only do sales winners sell differently, they sell radically differently, than the second-place finishers.
In recent years, buyers have increasingly seen products and services as replaceable. You might think this would mean that the sale goes to the lowest bidder. Not true! A new breed of sellerthe insight selleris winning the sale with strong prices and margins even in the face of increasing competition and commoditization.
In Insight Selling, Schultz and Doerr share the
Table of Contents
Foreword Neil Rackham vii
Preface xi
Chapter 1 Sales Winners Sell Differently 1
Chapter 2 What Is Insight Selling? 25
Chapter 3 Insight Selling and Value 37
Chapter 4 Insight and Level 1: Connect 57
Chapter 5 Insight and Level 2: Convince 79
Chapter 6 Insight and Level 3: Collaborate 101
Chapter 7 On Trust 121
Chapter 8 Profile of the Insight Seller 137
Chapter 9 Insight Selling Mistakes 161
Chapter 10 Buyers Who Buy Insights 177
Chapter 11 Getting the Most from Sales Training 199
Epilogue 219
Appendix 221
Notes 225
About RAIN Group 231
About the Authors 233
Index 237
