As many of you know, I am a big fan of Matt Dixon’s work, book, The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation. I had the pleasure interviewing Matt and split the interview into 2 parts. Last week, Need Customers, Create an Effortless Experience was about his latest book, The Effortless Experience and the Read More …
Is Selling a Team Sport? I think so, and so much so that I wrote the eBook, Lean Engagement Team. In the book, I concentrate on the development of a sales and marketing structure that can support customer engagement through out the organization. This structure will be self-organizing at times and provide for customer touch Read More …
The Challenger Sale author Matt Dixon, is my guest next week on the Business901 Podcast, and though I could not resist talking about The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation, the discussion eventually got around to his new book The Effortless Experience: Conquering the New Battleground for Customer Loyalty. I like to think Read More …
Nir Eyal, author of Hooked: A Guide to Building Habit-Forming Products, discussed his 4-step process for Building Habit Forming Products (podcast and transcription link): The model is called the hook model and the four steps are a trigger, an action, a reward – and, often times, it’s a variable reward – and an investment. So by cycling users Read More …
Most of them know how to solve their problems. Most of the time a salesperson is not invited to the table till 60% of the decision process is already completed. If you are there to tell the customer that 1 + 1 = 2, you are there responding to a request for a proposal and Read More …
In last week’s podcast with Linda we dove into the topic of insights. How she phrases it may lead you to re-think the way you train your sales people. Entire Transcription with Podcast Link: The New Sales Conversation with Linda Richardson Joe Dager: The Lean world is predominantly on the operational side where we think Read More …