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What Is Scenario Selling?


Just-In-Time

Systems Thinking

Simulation

Scenario Planning

Consultative Selling & Technology - A Tale of WOE

Scenario Selling Summary

Consultative Selling & Technology - A Tale of WOE


The Consultative Sales Process
The Problem - A Hidden Sales Step
The Wizard of Oz Effect
WOE-ful Consequences
WOE Results In Longer Sales Cycles
WOE Fails to Recognize That Clients Also Do Analysis
WOE Leads to Misunderstandings of Customer Objections
WOE Decreases Trust
WOE Results in a Poor Customer Experience
The Great Consultative-Cover-Up

WOE Fails to Recognize That Clients Also Do Analysis

In the consultative model, analysis is the responsibility of the salesperson.

But do clients do analysis? Of course they do. With all the Digital Age resources at their disposal, it’s likely that their tools are equal to the salesperson’s. Delays give them opportunity and cause to do their own analysis.

Even worse, they are apt to relieve the tedium of waiting by consulting other sales advisors, and resolve the problem without you.

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The client and salesperson each do their own analysis. The wizard’s curtain works both ways, decreasing the likelihood that they can or will see the issue from the same perspective.

WOE leads to Misunderstandings of Customer Objections ... click here


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