Understanding the Principles of the Challenger Sale
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Matt Heinz gave a presentation on applying the Challenger sale approach to drive volume, velocity and conversion. He outlined 25 tenets of the Challenger approach, such as leading with hypotheses of customer needs, painting a picture of their negative future without change, and pushing customers' thinking to help them compete more effectively. Heinz emphasized tailoring the message to stakeholders, generating demand in reluctant environments, and being memorable rather than agreeable.
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- The document advocates for a rigorous "Win Lab" approach to opportunity planning that is collaborative, generates ideas/strategies, and produces action plans. It emphasizes focusing resources on important opportunities.
- It argues that opportunity planning must be collaborative, drawing on different strengths to uncover buyer needs, solutions, value propositions, and strategies.
- It also stresses that a well-defined sales process, with guides and checklists, enhances seller judgment rather than limiting it. The document outlines levels of process maturity and strategies for improvement.
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This document discusses closing the strategy to action gap and provides three reasons why the gap exists. First, strategies are often formulated inside-out around the business rather than focusing on customers' problems. Second, tactics are chosen arbitrarily rather than being designed to progress customers through their buying journey. Third, sales and marketing are often not properly aligned around shared objectives, strategy, and metrics. The document recommends building strategies around customers' key problems, choosing tactics to move customers through the buying process, and ensuring sales and marketing are aligned to a single plan.
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This document provides an introduction to selling complex solutions by addressing common sales challenges. It discusses five fundamentals of selling complex solutions: pain, power, vision, value, and control. Pain refers to the problems and motivations that drive customers to make changes. Power identifies who has the authority to make purchasing decisions. Vision is developing the customer's vision of how their needs can be addressed. Value demonstrates how the investment will be profitable. Control ensures the solution can be successfully implemented. The document then examines specific sales challenges and how to overcome them using the five fundamentals.
8 Critical Success Factorsfor Lead Generation
Until now, "lead generation" was associated with direct mail campaigns, sometimes supported by a flashy website, sporadic trade show appearances, intense email blasts or stabs at telemarketing, but with very little, if any, special attention brought to bear on the complex sale.
Meanwhile, marketers are constantly reminded that the company needs more sales leads NOW. Unfortunately, that immediacy often means sacrificing quality for sheer quantity.
A flood of ordinary, low-quality leads doesn\'t mean better sales - so why waste your time? The challenge is to adopt lead generation programs that will increase the odds of creating better sales leads, ultimately resulting in long-term, happy and profitable customers.
Sales Strategy in a Digitally Connected World
This document discusses the evolution of sales strategies from product selling to insight driven sales. It advocates for adopting a challenger sales model in today's digitally connected world. The challenger sales model focuses on teaching customers through insights, tailoring the message for each stakeholder, and taking control of the sales process. It emphasizes pushing customers out of their comfort zone to help them make progress on their goals.
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Thoughtful Selling™
This document discusses how companies can better differentiate themselves and increase revenues through "Thoughtful Selling". It notes that customers now find most product information online beforehand, so companies need to close the "insight gap" between their brand and products by providing unique insights. It recommends categorizing customers into "Take Us Forward", "Model It", and "Prove It" groups and matching insights to each group's needs. Additionally, it emphasizes aligning marketing campaigns and sales conversations by integrating efforts between departments to create high-performance programs grounded in unique insights.
Following Your Customers Purchasing Process
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change your marketing behaviour so it
matches the purchasing behaviour of
your customer. Applying the the Marketing Lens approach will ensure that your brand is present where your customers are.
The Disruptive Reader: Three Urgent Questions for B2B Marketing Innovators
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• production concept,
• modern marketing concept,
• Societal marketing.
Sales Sweet Spot Overview
Valuable, engaging content is more important than ever before for attracting buyers.
Social media platforms like LinkedIn are providing powerful channels through which to distribute this content and reach perfect prospects.
However, competition is fierce and people have become very selective about the information they engage with. The rest is ignored.
In this presentation, we look at why so much content goes to waste and how you can ensure yours hits its mark.
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Understanding the Principles of the Challenger Sale
- 1. Applying the Challenger Sale Approach Matt Heinz President, Heinz Marketing Inc matt@heinzmarketing.com @heinzmarketing
- 2. Three objectives today • How to tell better, customer-centric stories that drive volume, velocity and conversion among your prospects • Apply teach, tailor and take control to the Smart Tuition sales (and marketing) process • Begin getting comfortable with how to operationalize the Challenger approach in your daily activity
- 3. Based in CEB research
- 4. The 25 Most Important Tenets of the Challenger Approach
- 5. 1. How you sell is more important than what you sell
- 6. 2. You win by generating demand in a reluctant, risk- adverse customer environment
- 7. 3. Challengers push their customer’s thinking & help them compete more effectively
- 8. 4. Challengers teach, tailor & take control
- 9. 5. Solution selling is, by definition, a disruptive sale
- 10. 6. Reps who win tailor their message to a wide range of customer stakeholders
- 11. 7. You’re not as different from your competitors as you think
- 12. 8. Build a network of advocacy
- 13. 9. The value of your insights trumps the quality of your product
- 14. 10. Don’t discover what they know, teach them a new way of thinking altogether
- 15. 11. Rapport and reframe are not the same thing
- 16. 12. Logic alone is rarely enough to challenge the status quo
- 17. 13. Lead with a hypotheses of the customer’s needs
- 18. 14. Paint a picture of the negative future based on their current path Source: Jeff Thull
- 19. 15. Marketing is your “insight generation machine”
- 20. 16. Does the decision maker have the strong backing of her team?
- 21. 17. It is often faster to sell through stakeholders than to go directly to the decision maker
- 22. 18. Know individual stakeholder value drivers & the economic drivers of their business
- 23. 19. If it’s not urgent, it’s not worth solving
- 24. 20. Translate & enable customer centricity to sales (at a tangible, operational level)
- 25. 21. Invest in planning time
- 26. 22. Sales leadership requires an innovation mindset
- 27. 23. “If we had religiously followed our sales process, our three biggest deals would have never gotten done.”
- 28. 24. Design your team (and your time) for effectiveness, not efficiency
- 29. 25. Be memorable, not agreeable
- 30. Questions?
- 31. Thank You! Matt Heinz President, Heinz Marketing @heinzmarketing matt@heinzmarketing.com