Summary
Customer Centered Sellingteaches you the secret of the world-famous Xerox sales training program. The secret, Robert Jolles reveals, is reversing the conventional selling practice of searching for customer needs. To truly create urgency, you must focus instead on the customer's problems and decision-making process. Jolles provides a systematic, repeatable, predictable approach that teaches you to anticipate and influence behavior as the customer moves through an eight-stage "decision cycle" and ultimately discovers his or her needs. The book includes a series of case studies, activities, and exercises that enable you to better understand the principles being taught, so you can immediately apply them to your own unique scenarios. This book is a "must read" for all sales professionals, sales managers, and managers in need of a disciplined approach to persuading others.
Author Biography
Robert L. Jolles is President of Jolles Associates, Inc., an independent training consulting firm. The Sales Trainer with the longest tenure working at Xerox Corporation today, Mr. Jolles is also the only person to have been awarded the position of Senior Sales Training Consultant. He lives in Great Falls, Virginia.
Table of Contents
| Preface |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| PART I THE NEED |
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3 | (12) |
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15 | (7) |
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Marrying the Product to the Process |
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22 | (7) |
| PART II THE PROCESS |
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The Customer Centered Selling Process |
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29 | (8) |
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The Customer Centered Decision Cycle |
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37 | (24) |
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Teaching Salespeople...to Fail! |
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61 | (20) |
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Exposing the Biggest Myths in Selling |
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81 | (10) |
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91 | (11) |
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The Customer Centered Selling Cycle |
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102 | (7) |
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The Research Stage: The Value of a Good Conversation |
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109 | (19) |
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The Analysis Stage: The Best-Kept Secret in Selling |
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128 | (38) |
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The Confirmation Stage: Getting Past the First Decision Point |
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166 | (11) |
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The Requirement Stage: Discovering the Solution |
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177 | (14) |
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The Specification Stage: Locking Out Misunderstandings...and the Competition |
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191 | (10) |
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The Solution Stage: Putting Your Product Knowledge on Display |
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201 | (21) |
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The Close Stage: Earning the Right to Close |
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222 | (22) |
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The Maintenance Stage: Restarting the Process |
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244 | (15) |
| PART III THE SUPPORT |
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259 | (17) |
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The Objection-Handling Tactic |
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276 | (34) |
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Strategic Decision Making |
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310 | (15) |
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325 | (16) |
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341 | (4) |
| Appendix: The Stages of the Decision Cycle and the Selling Cycle |
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345 | (2) |
| Customer Centered Selling Worksheets |
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347 | (6) |
| Reply Card |
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353 | (2) |
| Index |
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