
Dive Into Strategies for Success
Building a Culture for Success
Every section offers a distinct perspective to consider as you build your culture of success.
SELLING IS PART ART AND PART SCIENCE
How do you tackle the art?
How do you leverage the science?
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EFFORT
The value of extra effort:
1. Use real customer data to differentiate. If they have no data or bad data, it can help you tell a compelling story.
2. Build competitive solution differentiation no matter what you sell!
3. Differentiate your positioning and increase your win rate!
VALUE WEDGES

DO YOU END UP IN A FEATURE PARITY WAR WHEN THERE IS COMPETITION?
TRY THESE
BROADENING - the value of CX and business impact
CONSULTING - for path from current to desired future state
DELIVERING - industry + competitive knowledge
DESIGNING - strategic plan for every engagement
ENGAGING - to retain current base + win new business
FACILITATING - a consultative buyer’s journey
FOSTERING - industry or vertical best practices
MANAGING - change and pivoting with agility
PARTNERING - with you and your prospects
POSITIONING - winning solution through storytelling
Get away from "me too" gauges! Have you ever heard yourself say, "We do that too"? If so, you are using a "me too" statement and are likely stuck in a feature parity war with a competitor.​​

Control
Value
FOCUS ON Needs First
Then
Nice-to-Haves
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Know the Difference
Ideal
Customer
Offer Unique
Value
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Stay Focused on buyer personas
Model
Company
provide domain expertise on the vertical
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Use industry Stories
Data Insight Questions
DIQs
Imagine if had a toolkit filled with DIQs - by industry, by persona - that was a simple tactic to increase your persuasive impact?
YOU CAN!!!
There is a methodology where you can present an insight before asking questions that can build trust with your prospect and boost your persuasive power in the sales cycle.
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It must be relevant to the industry or the persona
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It should be somewhat provocative
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It must "speak" to the audience
Strategically plan your DIQs.
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10% Messaging
Imagine if you could control the 10% audiences remember from your presentation?
YOU CAN!!!
There is a methodology you can follow where prospects will remember your message in a sea of information they must consume as the go through through the buying cycle.
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Strategically plan the message.
ESTABLISH RELATIONSHIPS
- There is no one-size fits all in selling
- Cold outreach and email overload don't typically work for buyers
- The low response rate is often not worth your time
TARGET ACCOUNTS & UTILIZE RELATIONSHIPS
- Identify accounts with the most whitespace
- Laser focused on right buyers
- Find these buyers when they are ready to engage
- Locate and partner with hidden allies (a warm path) from your network
BUILD YOUR SUPER POWER
- Use data do research
- Focus on ccount insights, buyer intent, people and relationship intelligence​
- Build action from findings
- Work toward outcomes that build pipeline
