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🤠 Experts tell you they teach consultative selling techniques. Dig into that.

Clive Griffiths
Clive Griffiths
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🤠 Experts tell you they teach consultative selling techniques.

Dig into that.

📠Turns out their promoting old-school solution selling techniques.

That's not consultative selling.

Let me introduce Mack Hanan. A business consultant who generously packed his sales expertise into a 214-page book. It's a fantastic resource.

Do yourself a favour, read it and apply what he ways.

Why?

You'll stand out as a profit improvement resource, not another solution vendor looking for a quick sale.

How does it work?
↳ Position as a valuable partner to client champions.
↳ Identify a difficult and expensive issue.
↳ Make a high-impact proposition.
↳ Quantify cost or earnings opportunity.
↳Take on full responsibility for the project's success.

🤝 When the client champion bites you work together as partners.
⚠️ Key point: only talk of consulting relates to solving the issue.
✋ Consultative selling isn't just about pushing solutions.
👍 It is about improving financial outcomes.

You prove your value through impact on profitability.

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