Iannarino

APRIL 27, 2023

Many B2B sales representatives believe they are consultative because they ask questions and avoid being pushy. Asking questions alone is not evidence of a consultative approach. Many salespeople ask questions without being consultative.

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Iannarino

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Ask a salesperson if they are consultative, and you will find most answer in the affirmative. After nodding in agreement, ask that salesperson what makes them consultative, and you will hear many ideas, none close to correct. Some of my favorites include:

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Iannarino

MAY 3, 2023

Great consultative salespeople have many attributes that help them guide their decisions and interactions with prospective clients. Great salespeople not only use a consultative selling approach, but they also lead the conversation with a prospect. Many good or average salespeople lack these important sales attributes.

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Iannarino

OCTOBER 9, 2023

One way to improve your sales approach is to be consultative. The more consultative you are, the easier it is to win deals, which is not to suggest winning deals is ever easy.

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Iannarino

JUNE 10, 2024

In today's ever-changing business landscape, mastering consultative sales training can be the key to unlocking your sales team's potential and driving success.

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Iannarino

JUNE 7, 2024

Unlock the true potential of consultative selling by mastering high-gain questions that drive meaningful client conversations.

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Iannarino

MAY 24, 2024

Unlock the secrets to winning more B2B sales deals by mastering the art of creating value and adopting a consultative approach.

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Iannarino

MARCH 1, 2024

It can be challenging to convey the point I've been making since the publication of Elite Sales Strategies: A Guide to Being One-Up, Creating Value, and Becoming Truly Consultative. One way to express this idea is that your client should make the decision you would make if your contacts asked you to make the decision for them.

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Iannarino

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Transaction selling, relationship selling, partnership selling, consultative selling … If you’re a sales manager, you’ve heard professionals, blogs, and influential figures discussing these techniques. One resource will swear by relationship selling, while another swears it’s a mistake.

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Iannarino

DECEMBER 22, 2023

There are people who talk about sales as if salespeople still sell like they would have in the 1970s and 80s.

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Iannarino

MARCH 26, 2022

Over the last couple of months, some significant amount of what I have written and published was intended to allow you to see something that might not have been visible to you. I started to try to illuminate this concept in a past newsletter with a thought experiment about how you might sell were you to have no product or service.

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Iannarino

APRIL 4, 2022

After posting an article on LinkedIn, a reader commented to ask me about a line in the article that reads: “If the only reason you ask your client questions is to identify a problem so you can sell your solution, there is strong evidence that your approach is too transactional to find you One-Up.”.

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Iannarino

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Discover the alarming trend that is jeopardizing the effectiveness of leaders and decision-makers , as the consultative approach becomes a casualty of modern practices.

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Iannarino

APRIL 27, 2024

Discover how evolving from a traditional salesperson to a consultative business advisor can drastically improve your B2B sales success.

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Iannarino

JUNE 23, 2022

The primary challenge in sales today is that the legacy approaches don't position the salesperson appropriately in the first meeting. Instead of positioning the salesperson as a business advisor with expertise in their industry, legacy approaches position them as someone who provides information about their company and their products.

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Iannarino

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The most consultative salespeople feel different from other sales reps. The difference between the consultative salesperson and others is that the consultative salesperson knows much about the client without having to ask the questions that the average salesperson asks.

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Iannarino

AUGUST 22, 2022

One of the ways we make trouble for ourselves and others is to categorize and rank things. Our strong tendency to rank, well, everything, often finds us suggesting one thing is more important, or better than some other thing.

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Iannarino

JULY 9, 2024

Transform your sales game by leveraging the One-Up approach, a method that ensures you always stay ahead of your clients' needs and expectations.

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Iannarino

MARCH 21, 2023

You might have found sales success using a positioning statement about your company and your offerings. You may have found success by overcoming a corporate decision-maker’s objection. Even so, following the well-worn path of the traditional sales approach and its linear B2B sales process was designed ages ago for a different business environment.

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Iannarino

APRIL 6, 2024

If you are a salesperson, you must do the work to be an expert and an authority in your industry, using your experience to guide your client to the better results they need.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

You decide Image copyright 123RF The post How I Learned I Was a Sales Consulting Imposter appeared first on Kurlan & Associates, Inc. As an interviewer, you must never become emotional about candidates or their inappropriate reactions. You now have all of the evidence to come to a conclusion. Am I an imposter like Phil claims?

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Iannarino

MAY 26, 2024

Discover how consultative selling can transform your B2B sales approach and elevate your results.

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Martech

MAY 16, 2024

Amid this complexity, martech consultants have become indispensable guides for enterprises. As innovation accelerates, the role of martech consultants will become even more crucial. A surprise learning for us during that period was how dismissive marketing teams were of consultants and agencies regarding marketing technology.

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Iannarino

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Dont let outdated strategies destroy your credibility; discover how to elevate your status in every B2B meeting.

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Iannarino

JANUARY 6, 2024

Discover how to transcend gimmicks in sales and establish real authority with our in-depth guide, Elite Sales Strategies, which is specifically tailored for high-stakes B2B enterprise selling. Learn how to become a “knows something” sales expert, providing unmatched value and insights to your clients.

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Iannarino

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The universe of B2B sales is evolving at an alarming pace. It's no longer enough to rely on legacy approaches and outdated sales tactics. Today, more than ever, salespeople and sales leaders must adapt to survive and thrive in this dynamic environment.

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Iannarino

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In the competitive world of B2B sales, the difference between winning and losing a deal often hinges on the effectiveness of your sales conversation.

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Iannarino

OCTOBER 20, 2022

There is a saying attributed to the great management consultant Peter Drucker (even though there is no evidence he said it): "Culture eats strategy for breakfast." When people are quietly quitting, working from home, and avoiding the office, it's important to make sure your culture isn't the root cause.

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Iannarino

MAY 6, 2023

Most sales organizations believe they are consultative, but few of their salespeople have the business acumen and experience to have the types of conversations this approach requires. Consultative salespeople provide counsel, advice, and recommendations in the B2B sales process.

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Iannarino

JUNE 30, 2023

All salespeople want to be consultative—their clients’ trusted advisor—but most are wholly unprepared to take on that role. Most sales approaches, both modern and legacy , are missing a number of important elements that are necessary to being a consultative salesperson.

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Tibor Shanto

AUGUST 30, 2021

Through domestic and international consulting, he has trained an army of salespeople thousands strong. Leese puts his nearly two decades of sales and leadership experience to use as the CEO & Founder of both Scott Leese Consulting, LLC; and SurfandSales.com. Scott Leese is one of the top startup sales leaders in the country.

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Iannarino

APRIL 19, 2022

Today we release my fourth book, Elite Sales Strategies: A Guide to Being One-Up, Creating Value, and Becoming Truly Consultative , and my first book with Wiley publishing. You can buy the book here now!

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Anthony Cole Training

MARCH 24, 2022

Do your lenders provide your prospects and clients with the consultative financial and business advice that establishes value and makes you rate-resistant? One of the areas where we are spending a significant amount of training time in 2022 is on sales negotiation strategies, value-based selling, as well as sales negotiation techniques.

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Iannarino

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

They are tone deaf and at odds with what clients need from a consultative salesperson. These legacy strategies and training were not created for our current ACDC environment (one of accelerating, constant, disruptive change).

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Iannarino

MAY 2, 2022

Of course, it's important to know your product, but it isn't the most important thing in a consultative sale , a sale where counsel, advice, and recommendations are the primary value. There was a time when that might have been true, but that time has come and gone.

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Iannarino

APRIL 19, 2022

On Tuesday, April 19, 2022, my fourth book, Elite Sales Strategies: A guide to being One Up, Creating Value, and Becoming Truly Consultative is set to be released. It is a book about consultative selling and the strategies you need for the current environment. But the concept of being One Up or One Down is not limited to sales.

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