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 6, 2024

If you want to improve your ability to practice consultative selling, you need to listen closely and with interest. If you ask a non-salesperson whether salespeople tend to be better at speaking or listening, most will answer they are more adept at speaking. They may also suggest that salespeople are not good listeners.

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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

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

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 3, 2023

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

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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. To achieve this, you would need to equip them with what they need to make that decision through the sales conversation, including your experience.

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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

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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Sales Gravy

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Marcin from Warsaw, Poland asks: What are the top sales trends shaping the future of sales? Our conversation ranged from the impact of AI to the growing importance of a consultative selling mindset in modern selling. Buyers are craving human interaction that goes beyond transactional sales.

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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

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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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Which brings me to sales cycles. Do you know what actually determines the length of your sales cycle? A lot of sales leaders and their salespeople believe that sales cycles are determined by their industry, or are specific to the industries they sell to. Short Foliage Cycle. Understand this.

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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

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 26, 2022

More recently, I attempted to provide a view of the difference between selling a drill or selling a hole , suggesting that a lot of salespeople believe the hole allows them to sell their drill, which finds them having the wrong conversation early in the sales conversation.

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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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Consult Sales 261

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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Sales Pop!

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

If youre looking for new ways to increase your sales, you may be considering subscription-based products or services. If a company offers consulting services, it could develop a coaching subscription where consultants follow up with customers and offer monthly evaluations. appeared first on SalesPOP!

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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

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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Sales Pop!

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Lifelong sales learner that I am, I’ve always been a voracious reader of selling books, posts, blogs, podcasts and the like. But over a long sales career, my best and most memorable insights have come from first-hand experiences involving real colleagues and real clients – direct experiences both good and bad. First, some background.

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Iannarino

AUGUST 22, 2022

On a recent post on LinkedIn, one comment suggested that there was evidence that relationship sellers fared the worst when it comes to sales. For those aware of the book, The Challenger Sale , Challengers had the second highest score on relationships. The person commenting lacked information, as that isn't exactly true.

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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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Veloxy

JANUARY 7, 2025

In the world of sales, time is money. This is where the concept of the sales cycle comes into play. A streamlined sales cycle can significantly boost your company’s efficiency and profitability. It can help you close deals faster, increase your sales volume, and improve your bottom line. What is a Sales Cycle?

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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

MARCH 21, 2023

You might have found sales success using a positioning statement about your company and your offerings. 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. That time has long passed.

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Iannarino

MARCH 6, 2025

We reject the old and outdated sales approaches that are still being used by many sales organizations and their sales teams-as they are no longer effective in the third decade of the 21st Century. We reject the idea that more is the way to improve sales results.

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Iannarino

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Most sales cultures are okay, some are exceptional, and others are toxic. 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." But a toxic sales culture eats its own.

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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

MAY 6, 2023

One reason salespeople fail to win clients is because they have a difficult time building sales trust. 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.

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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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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 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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Iannarino

JULY 6, 2022

The feedback on Elite Sales Strategies: A Guide to Being One-Up, Creating Value, and Becoming Truly Consultative has been mostly positive, with many readers suggesting that the concept of being One-Up is helpful. The complaints about the book are that I have removed much of the legacy approach to sales.

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Iannarino

JULY 9, 2021

While some sales organizations still use legacy approaches, none of them are based on high-pressure sales. Once they finished their assignment, I asked the students to raise their hand if one of their parents worked in sales. There is little chance that these potential salespeople have ever seen a high-pressure sale.

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