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Navigable Slide Index
- Introduction
- What this talk is about
- The conventional sales cycle
- Traditional sales competencies
- So what has changed?
- Successful businesses create and deliver value
- Why is value so important today?
- Up and down the value chain
- The simple days of the 70s and 80s
- Strategic account migration
- Dimensions of key account selling
- The role of selling and salespeople
- 21st Century sales competencies
- Summary of talk
- Thank you
Topics Covered
- There are many sales processes in use today
- Most share common themes of prospecting, qualifying, needs analysis, presentation, negotiation and follow up
- These classical approaches have served sales people well over the years and are still valid
- The job of selling is changing and with this change, the role and skills of salespeople are also changing
- Selling is now a much more strategic function
- The modern sales person operates in a more complex, more competitive and more knowledge based environment
- Modern sales professionals are no longer "box shifters" and are now accomplished "merchants of value"
- What value means and how to create value for clients and customers is the factor that differentiates the effective modern sales professional from his peers
Talk Citation
Macdivitt, H. (2010, March 31). Understanding the sales process: selling in the 21st century [Video file]. In The Business & Management Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved December 10, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.69645/LYNW4999.Export Citation (RIS)