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Hope Is Not a Strategy: The 6 Keys to Winning the Complex Sale » (Reprint)

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Authors: Rick Page
ISBN-13: 9780071418713, ISBN-10: 0071418717
Format: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Date Published: March 2003
Edition: Reprint

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Author Biography: Rick Page

Rick Page founded The Complex Sale, an Atlanta-based company that provides sales consulting and training worldwide.

Book Synopsis

Put your team on top with winning B2B sales strategies and techniques

"No longer is being 'a closer" the basis of sustainable success. Instead it takes the kind of strategic thinking Rick Page outlines in Hope Is Not a Strategy."—Geoffrey Moore, author of Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado

How do leading world-class sales and consulting organizations consistently land the big clients and the huge contracts, even in the fast-changing, risk-laden new economy? The world's leading authority on B2B team selling is about to show you. In his runaway bestselling guide to sales excellence, Rick Page reveals the breakthrough selling strategies that have made superstars of thousands of his students.

Combining a commonsense approach with the best kept secrets of the world's most successful sales people, this book presents a proven, six-step process for winning sales opportunities and shows you how to:

  • Sell to a prospect's strategic business "pain" for greater value
  • Qualify the prospect for forecasting accuracy
  • Differentiate your solution to build competitive preference
  • Link your strategy to the prospect's decision-making process
  • Sell to power by finding the key to buyer politics
  • Communicate your strategy throughout your team

Rick Page founded The Complex Sale, an Atlanta-based company that provides sales consulting and training worldwide.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Sect. 1The Challenge - The Complex Sale
Ch. 1Out of Control3
Ch. 2What Makes Today's Complex Sale Complex?13
Ch. 3The Canyon and the Crucible - The Competitive Evaluation19
Ch. 4Talent and Team Selling: Tellers, Sellers, Hunters, Farmers, Business Developers, Partners, and the Industry-Networked Consultant23
Ch. 5The Arsenal of Competitive Advantage41
Sect. 2The Solution - R.A.D.A.R.
Ch. 6R.A.D.A.R. - Simplifying the Complex Sale49
Ch. 7Key 1 - Link Solutions to Pain (or Gain)53
Ch. 8Key 2 - Qualify the Prospect69
Ch. 9Key 3 - Build Competitive Preference77
Ch. 10Key 4 - Determine the Decision-Making Process87
Ch. 11Key 5 - Sell to Power97
Ch. 12Key 6 - Communicate the Strategic Plan109
Sect. 3Strategies for Execution
Ch. 13Sixteen Opportunity-Level Sales Strategies123
Ch. 14Changing Issues and Time-Based Sales Tactics137
Ch. 15Ten Individual-Level Strategies145
Ch. 16Selling at "C-Level" - Calling on Chief Executives and Political Navigation149
Sect. 4Winning Before the Battle - Account Management
Ch. 17From Opportunity Management to Account Management163
The Complex Sale, Inc171
Notes172
Bibliography173
Index175

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