The CustomerCentric Selling Field Guide to Prospecting and Business Development: Techniques, Tools, and Exercises to Win More Business

The Proven Approach to Prospecting for the Long Sales Cycle

It's a fact: 92 percent of C-level executives never respond to e-mail blasts or cold calls . . . so why would you continue to rely on these approaches to generate new business?

If you're like most sales professionals, it's time to transform your selling method by listening rather than talking and by asking questions rather than stating opinions. In short, you need to be customer-centric. This revolutionary new guide will show you how.

The CustomerCentric Selling Field Guide to Prospecting and Business Development gives you the tools and methods necessary to refocus your energy from blindly delivering sales pitches to developing lasting relationships with profitable clients. This clear, concise, and proven-effective field guide covers:

  • The six steps to prospecting success
  • Calculating pipeline strength and requirements
  • Successfully engaging decision makers at the "point of need"
  • Ways to develop and deliver a sales-ready message
  • How to leverage relationships through social networking

The CustomerCentric Selling Field Guide to Prospecting and Business Development provides the tools you need to improve prospecting and business development effectiveness. Most important, it helps you increase productivity, win more business, and develop lasting relationships with your ideal customers.

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The CustomerCentric Selling Field Guide to Prospecting and Business Development: Techniques, Tools, and Exercises to Win More Business

The Proven Approach to Prospecting for the Long Sales Cycle

It's a fact: 92 percent of C-level executives never respond to e-mail blasts or cold calls . . . so why would you continue to rely on these approaches to generate new business?

If you're like most sales professionals, it's time to transform your selling method by listening rather than talking and by asking questions rather than stating opinions. In short, you need to be customer-centric. This revolutionary new guide will show you how.

The CustomerCentric Selling Field Guide to Prospecting and Business Development gives you the tools and methods necessary to refocus your energy from blindly delivering sales pitches to developing lasting relationships with profitable clients. This clear, concise, and proven-effective field guide covers:

  • The six steps to prospecting success
  • Calculating pipeline strength and requirements
  • Successfully engaging decision makers at the "point of need"
  • Ways to develop and deliver a sales-ready message
  • How to leverage relationships through social networking

The CustomerCentric Selling Field Guide to Prospecting and Business Development provides the tools you need to improve prospecting and business development effectiveness. Most important, it helps you increase productivity, win more business, and develop lasting relationships with your ideal customers.

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The CustomerCentric Selling Field Guide to Prospecting and Business Development: Techniques, Tools, and Exercises to Win More Business

The CustomerCentric Selling Field Guide to Prospecting and Business Development: Techniques, Tools, and Exercises to Win More Business

by Gary Walker
The CustomerCentric Selling Field Guide to Prospecting and Business Development: Techniques, Tools, and Exercises to Win More Business

The CustomerCentric Selling Field Guide to Prospecting and Business Development: Techniques, Tools, and Exercises to Win More Business

by Gary Walker

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The Proven Approach to Prospecting for the Long Sales Cycle

It's a fact: 92 percent of C-level executives never respond to e-mail blasts or cold calls . . . so why would you continue to rely on these approaches to generate new business?

If you're like most sales professionals, it's time to transform your selling method by listening rather than talking and by asking questions rather than stating opinions. In short, you need to be customer-centric. This revolutionary new guide will show you how.

The CustomerCentric Selling Field Guide to Prospecting and Business Development gives you the tools and methods necessary to refocus your energy from blindly delivering sales pitches to developing lasting relationships with profitable clients. This clear, concise, and proven-effective field guide covers:

  • The six steps to prospecting success
  • Calculating pipeline strength and requirements
  • Successfully engaging decision makers at the "point of need"
  • Ways to develop and deliver a sales-ready message
  • How to leverage relationships through social networking

The CustomerCentric Selling Field Guide to Prospecting and Business Development provides the tools you need to improve prospecting and business development effectiveness. Most important, it helps you increase productivity, win more business, and develop lasting relationships with your ideal customers.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780071808057
Publisher: McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date: 04/19/2013
Edition description: List
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Gary Walker is a cofounder of CustomerCentric Systems, LLC, which Training Magazine routinely lists among its top 25 sales training companies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments v

Introduction vii

Chapter 1 Getting the Most Out of This Field Guide 1

Chapter 2 CustomerCentric Selling Primer 7

Chapter 3 What Is Prospecting? 23

Chapter 4 Planning-The Six Steps to Prospecting Success 31

Chapter 5 Pipeline Analysis 49

Chapter 6 Preparation 59

Chapter 7 Engaging at the Point of Need 69

Chapter 8 Sales Ready Messaging 79

Chapter 9 Leveraging Relationships and Results Through Social Networking 105

Chapter 10 Prospecting Methods 115

Chapter 11 Telephone Prospecting 121

Chapter 12 E-mail Prospecting 139

Chapter 13 Five-Step Prospecting Methodology 155

Chapter 14 Thunder and Lightning 165

Chapter 15 Direct Mail Prospecting 175

Chapter 16 Referral Prospecting 179

Chapter 17 Drip Marketing 183

Chapter 18 Getting Started 189

Sources 199

Index 201

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