Consultative Selling

What's the secret to sales success? If you're like most business leaders, you'd say it's fundamentally about relationships-and you'd be wrong. The best salespeople don't just build relationships with customers. They challenge them. The need to understand what top-performing reps are doing that...

People don't buy from people they like. No! Your buyer doesn't care about you or your product or service. It's not your job to overcome objections, it's your buyer's. Closing isn't a skill of good salespeople; it's the skill of weak salespeople. Price isn't the main reason salespeople lose the sale. Gap Selling shreds traditional and closely held sales beliefs that have been hurting salespeople for decades. For years, salespeople have embraced a myriad of sales tactics and belief systems that have unknowingly created many of the issues they have been trying to avoid.

Often the decision between a customer choosing you over someone like you is your ability to know exactly what to say, when to say it, and how to make it count. Phil M. Jones has trained more than two million people across five continents and over 50 countries in the lost art of spoken communication. In Exactly What to Say, he delivers the tactics you need to get more of what you want.

Why do some professionals and companies become the only trusted choice in their market, while others remain interchangeable? The answer lies in Preeminence. In a world flooded with options, information, and aggressive selling, the true competitive advantage no longer comes from louder marketing or lower prices. It comes from becoming the most trusted advisor your clients could possibly choose. Preeminence is not a tactic. It is a philosophy. Developed and refined over decades of advising businesses across industries, the Strategy of Preeminence is built on a simple but powerful principle: ...

Consultative selling is about effective communication, asking questions, finding the results your customer wants. You must be the expert, the customers guide in exploring all aspects of understanding their problem so you can provide a solution. The question is "How and what is needed to be a consultative salesperson?" "Unleashing the Power of Consultative Selling" is the answer. It is not your ordinary sales book. Why? Until now there has not been a book written by someone who lead a sales team, or reorganized a sales team to consultative selling or staffed a new sales team using the ...

In today’s fast-paced and competitive business environment, simply meeting customer expectations is no longer sufficient. To truly stand out and drive Sustainable growth, your goal must be to turn satisfied customers into passionate Positive Activists for your brand. This transformation requires a strategic approach that goes beyond the traditional sales methods. Satisfaction Selling: How to Become a Trusted Advisor in High-Value Complex Sales and Build a Movement of Positive Activists is your comprehensive guide to achieving this transformation. This book introduces The Satisfaction ...

There is an art to advanced consulting as well as a science; who you are is as important as what you do. Bill Pasmore draws on his four decades of experience as a consultant and teacher of consultants to show listeners how to see possibilities that are not evident, conduct analyses that support the value of more comprehensive work, build relationships that engender deeper trust, adapt to changing circumstances, and empower members of their team to take independent actions while maintaining overall control of an engagement.

Are you a business coach or consultant who's tired of begging for referrals, chasing tire-kickers, and watching competitors land the kind of clients you actually want? LinkedIn is the #1 platform on the planet for finding and landing 5 and 6-figure coaching and consulting clients - if you know how to use it. The problem is, 99% of business coaches and consultants are doing it wrong. Inside this book, you'll discover the exact strategies, scripts and systems that have helped hundreds of coaches and consultants land high-ticket clients on LinkedIn - including: Why your LinkedIn profile is ...

You've perfected your pitch. You've memorized every feature. Yet, your potential buyers keep stalling, ghosting, or defaulting to the status quo. You watch revenue disappear into the "analysis paralysis" void, constantly unsure what piece of information they were actually missing. You're an expert, but you're not being trusted. Sound familiar? In Stop Pitching, Start Teaching, veteran sales professional and corporate trainer Scott A. Jordan flips the old script. He proves that the most effective salespeople aren't slick talkers; they are trusted teachers. The confusion causing those stalls ...

In the world of sales, there is often an emphasis on closing deals and achieving short-term success. However, the true power of sales lies not in one-time transactions, but in the art of building long-term relationships with clients. This book explores the importance of shifting our focus from immediate gains to cultivating lasting connections, and how this approach can revolutionize the way we approach sales.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER “Brilliant . . . riveting, scary, cogent, and cleverly argued.”—Beth Macy, author of Dopesick, as heard on Fresh Air This book is about pleasure. It’s also about pain. Most important, it’s about how to find the delicate balance...

The Interdependency, humanity’s interstellar empire, is on the verge of collapse. The Flow, the extra-dimensional conduit that makes travel between the stars possible, is disappearing, leaving entire star systems stranded. When it goes, human civilization may go with it - unless desperate measures can be taken. Emperox Grayland II, the leader of the Interdependency, is ready to take those measures to help ensure the survival of billions. But nothing is ever that easy.

There is no such thing as a good deal for the wrong insurance policy. Yet, why is it that so many people have the wrong insurance? The biggest problem facing consumers in the insurance market is what? What is it? Consumers understand what they are paying for insurance, but they don’t understand what they are actually paying for. The reality of purchasing insurance in America is that people do not fundamentally understand what they are purchasing.

In a world of rapidly evolving technologies and business paradigms, your consulting business needs to radically adapt its techniques and models. Taking full measure of these changes, Alan Weiss, the "Rock Star of Consulting," will guide you through the process with a revised and completely updated sixth edition of his authoritative guide to consulting success.

How can you take your skills and expertise and package it to become a successful consultant? There are proven time-tested principles, strategies, tactics, and best practices the most successful consultants use to start, run, and grow their consulting business. Consulting Success teaches you what they are.

From the creator of Valuetainment, the #1 YouTube channel for entrepreneurs, and “one of the most exciting thinkers” (Ray Dalio, author of Principles) in business today, comes a practical and effective guide for thinking more clearly and achieving your most audacious professional goals. Both...

Based on the single largest neuromarketing study ever conducted, Buyology reveals surprising truths about what attracts our attention and captures our dollars. Among the long-held assumptions and myths Buyology confronts: Sex doesn’t sell - people in skimpy clothing and provocative poses...

Casey Jacox's debut book, Win the Relationship, Not the Deal, will teach you six common-sense strategies to overcome business adversity, improve your sales skills, and build more relationships, yielding you a growth mindset. Whether you're an athlete, business leader, salesperson, or coach, this book is for you! His no-nonsense, at times comical approach, will help you improve self-awareness, learn to ditch your ego, and find simple ways to win more relationships, resulting in profound, personal, and professional business success!

Master client acquisition and overcome sales anxiety with a pressure-free, conversational freelance business strategy. Whether you are listening on your morning commute or actively scaling a consulting firm, you can finally abandon manipulative scripts. Embrace an empowering, relaxed approach to...

AI Can Now Prospect, Qualify, and Sequence Better Than Any SDR. So What Makes the Human Seller Worth Paying? Every sales floor is changing. AI writes your outreach emails. It scores your leads. It tells you when to call, what to say, and who to target next. The activities that used to fill your day? Machines do them faster, cheaper, and at a scale no human team can match. Here's what nobody in sales leadership wants to say out loud: the transactional seller is being automated. You will never out-prospect AI. You will never out-sequence a machine. But the sales professionals who understand ...