Synopses & Reviews
Sales forces that simply communicate value to customers are doomed to failsales must begin to create customer value to survive. In today's markets, success can no longer be obtained by salespeople communicating the value of a product or serviceit rests on the critical ability to create value for customers. Enter
Rethinking the Sales Force. In this book, best-selling author Neil Rackham and international sales and marketing consultant John De Vincentis have created a breakthrough guide for sales and marketing executives.
Rackham and De Vincentis help sales forces rethink and retool their selling strategies by introducing eye-opening insight for winning in the new marketplace.
"Of the many books published each year on marketing and selling, only a tiny fraction have anything new to say. This is one of them. It will radically change your thinking about your sales force, and even whether you need one."Philip Kotler, Distinguished Professor of International Marketing, J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University
"A compelling premise. Without question, this is an important and useful book for companies serious about improving sales performance."Chuck Farr, Former Vice-Chairman, American Express.
"Sales forces of tomorrow will need to be fundamentally different from today. This book provides an interesting and valuable window into the future of selling and what the next generation sales force will have to do to prosper."Michael Graff, President, Business Aircraft, Bombardier Aerospace
Synopsis
In today's markets, success no longer depends on communicating the value of products or services. It rests on the crucial ability to create value for customers. Sales forces need to retool current strategies by recognizing the customer's dominant power in today's economy and what that means for those who sell. Capitalizing on research into the practices of cutting edge companies, the authors show how the successful sales force breaks away from traditional thinking and transforms themselves into complex business processes with multiple sales approaches and selling mdoels that meet the demands of today's sophisticated customers.
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Table of Contents
The New Selling: From Communicating Value to Creating Value. The New Purchasing World: How Value is Reshaping Purchasing Decisions. Responding to the New Buying Reality: The Three Emerging Selling Modes. The New Transactional Selling: From Fat and Happy to Lean and Mean. The New Consultative Selling: From Rock Stars to Institutional Value. The New Enterprise Selling: From Large Sales to Deep Relationships. Sales Process: Light in the Long Dark Tunnel. Rethinking Channels to Create and Capture Value. Changing the Sales Force.