The role of customer value in strategy, marketing, sales, quality, service, price and overall organization success.
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 […]
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 […]
Motivational speaker Don Shapiro. Thousands of salespeople have boosted their sales applying Don’s discoveries on how customers figure out what they value and use it to buy.
All strategy depends on customer value All strategies depend on customer value or more accurately the customer’s perceptions of value. These include strategies like improving quality, enhancing service, lowering operating cost, changing distribution channels, altering the go to market approach, raising productivity through technology, discounting prices and restructuring. Why do strategies that are successful for […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
How 35 years of research about why people buy and how they figure out value can improve sales performance even for highly trained salespeople This article shares discoveries to improve selling effectiveness based on 35 years of studying salespeople and buyers about how people think out a decision to buy and figure out value. These […]
