Customer Centered Selling : Eight Steps to Success from the World's Best Sales Force

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Pub. Date: 2000-08-15
Publisher(s): Free Press
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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 ix
Acknowledgments xiii
PART I THE NEED
The Selling Dilemma
3(12)
Your Behavioral Cycle
15(7)
Marrying the Product to the Process
22(7)
PART II THE PROCESS
The Customer Centered Selling Process
29(8)
The Customer Centered Decision Cycle
37(24)
Teaching Salespeople...to Fail!
61(20)
Exposing the Biggest Myths in Selling
81(10)
Questioning Techniques
91(11)
The Customer Centered Selling Cycle
102(7)
The Research Stage: The Value of a Good Conversation
109(19)
The Analysis Stage: The Best-Kept Secret in Selling
128(38)
The Confirmation Stage: Getting Past the First Decision Point
166(11)
The Requirement Stage: Discovering the Solution
177(14)
The Specification Stage: Locking Out Misunderstandings...and the Competition
191(10)
The Solution Stage: Putting Your Product Knowledge on Display
201(21)
The Close Stage: Earning the Right to Close
222(22)
The Maintenance Stage: Restarting the Process
244(15)
PART III THE SUPPORT
The Opening Tactic
259(17)
The Objection-Handling Tactic
276(34)
Strategic Decision Making
310(15)
Making the Process Stick
325(16)
Some Final Thoughts
341(4)
Appendix: The Stages of the Decision Cycle and the Selling Cycle 345(2)
Customer Centered Selling Worksheets 347(6)
Reply Card 353(2)
Index 355

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