Sales Insights: Where You Start Impacts the Outcome
The quality of a salesperson’s life in pursing opportunities is highly dependent on their starting point in the organization. I hope you would agree that starting at Key Player or decision maker levels is likely to result in:
- higher win rates
- larger transactions
- shorter sales cycles
Starting Point in Sales Opportunities
Starting at low levels and trying to climb the corporate ladder can be hard rock mining. Each new person may have the ability to stop the product evaluation. My general rule is:
- When calling at high levels, sellers should try to avoid asking questions the buyer may not be able to answer. You run the risk of being delegated downward.
- When calling at lower levels, asking business-oriented questions that the prospect can’t or doesn’t want to share is a reasonable tact to take.
Sellers and buyers should want to avoid wasting time. [clickandtweet handle=”@PrimaryIntel” hashtag=”” related=”@Official_CCS” layout=”” position=””]If a seller’s contact can’t identify areas of value the seller can ask if he/she could introduce them to a person that can.[/clickandtweet] I think it’s important that buyer and seller consider early on if the benefits would provide adequate justification to warrant a purchase.
If and when a prospect will share desired business outcomes, they may be willing to serve as a champion in granting access to other stakeholders that have additional areas of potential benefit.
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