Results Driven

Do you remember back to school?

Those days, we were recovering from the hustle and bustle of the vacations and trying to get back into step for the busy days ahead.

That’s right; the same happens in sales; those first two weeks are tough.

Trying to recover from everything we did on vacation and “dragging” ourselves to the tasks that require our attention is indeed complicated.

The beginning of the post-holiday period is a critical time in the field of sales activity.

Otherwise, let’s look at what is at stake at this time:

Getting the year off to the right start in terms of sales;

Clients starting to prepare the year’s budget;

Renegotiation of contractual conditions with current suppliers;

Negotiating price increases that we sometimes have to make

Analysis of

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Let’s talk today about how to reach customers!

One thing that happens when we suffer from myopia is that we see well up close but not far away.

Often in sales, the same thing happens.

We are so focused on the day-to-day that we don’t think in the medium and long term.

Now, what is the main problem with this situation?

One of the situations we find daily with the companies we work with is that they drift a little bit according to the current flow that takes them.

Rather than control the situation, companies drift according to the business or, let’s say, the fish their vendors catch.

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One of the biggest problems I notice in the sales teams we train is the title of today’s article.

It is notorious for the misunderstanding of the customer’s reality.

This misunderstanding involves many aspects.

It starts with the positioning of our product or service, then goes through the sales process, where the understanding of the customer’s business and their needs is not always the most correct, and usually ends in the closing process, where the sales person often does not understand the conditioning factors of the closing process or the most pressing issues for the customer that must be resolved before going ahead.

Ufff???

So much misunderstanding?

Is it a misunderstanding, or is it, in most cases, a lack of investment by the salesperson in the sales process?

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