Sales
Articles about what affect sales, selling and directly influencing customers.
How to Unlock Hidden Reasons Customer Buy to Help Boost Sales
What happens when you watch 2500 salespeople calling on customers and you’ve also had 2000 salespeople call on you as a decision maker? You notice things even the best salespeople miss that could have turned some lost sales and no decisions into a win. You would think that if salespeople have taken the best training […]
Find The Stealth Customer Value
Hidden customer value exists inside every customer and company selling to those customers that could increase sales and improve profit margins Customer value is the sum total of everything a customer knows about what you offer for sale and how it compares to the competition. Inside every prospect and customer exists stealth value… value that […]
6 Myths About Value that Prevent Even Quota Busting Sales Teams from Closing More Sales
There’s more that affects whether customers buy and what price they pay then their needs, pain points, situation, challenges and goals. A lot more. Turns out value is not what everyone thought it was. And these discoveries aren’t in any books or training programs yet. Off the radar screen. Sales teams who’ve applied these discoveries boosted their sales by over 20%.
Raise the Customer’s Perceptions of Value to Close More Sales
The More Sales People Know About What Affects Their Prospects Perceptions Of Value, The Better The Choices They Make To Close The Sale Closing the sale comes down to the choices salespeople make. As they go through their sales process, they make choices about what they do next based on what they know about the […]
Make The Value Visible: The Lawry’s Gong Story
Don Shapiro started his management career with Lawry’s Restaurants famous for Lawry’s The Prime Rib. In his speeches and workshops, he shares a story about how Lawry’s found a way to turn a cup of coffee served at the end of the dinner into a merchandising and marketing phenomena that helped spread word of mouth […]
Close The Sale By Knowing More About Why People Buy
30 years studying why people buy leads to new discoveries about closing the sale 30 years ago I started doing research on why people buy in the hopes of finding out what really goes on inside customer’s mind that affects closing the sale. This wasn’t academic or theoretical research. I traveled with salespeople to observe […]
Video: The Best Measure of Sales Growth
Every company seems to measure its growth success by whether it can increase sales. Yet even companies that show double digit sales growth may not be performing well. There is a much better measure of how successful a firm is at growing its revenue than its own increase in sales. Revenue Detective Don Shapiro talks […]
Video: Hidden Customer Value, Pricing and Margins
Revenue Detective Don Shapiro of First Concepts Consultants talks about the increasing margin and price pressure many companies face today and the need to find more hidden value that could help close the sale at a profitable price. One of the best ways to increase sales is by raising the customer’s perceptions of value […]