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Get-Real Selling: Your Personal Coach for Real Sales Excellence
Dedication
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What They’re Saying about Get-Real Selling
Foreword
Editor’s Note
I. Setting the Stage: The True Purpose of the Consultative Sales Professional
1. Introduction: How Get Real Got Started
2. Sales Is the Greatest Profession
Being a Consultative Professional and a Strategic Resource
Being a Consultative Professional
Being a Strategic Resource for Your Organization
3. Not Real: Faking Consultative Selling
4. The True Purpose of a Sales Professional – S.E.L.
5. Not Real: Selling Selfishly
6. Selling On Purpose – Is It Really an Art?
7. Not Real: The Easy Way
8. The Hard Way Is the Easy Way
9. Solutions Selling Defined - It Is Not a Fuzzy Concept!
10. Not Real: Bag Diving as Your Method of Differentiation
11. Differentiation – Live the Consultative Approach
12. Differentiation in the Real World
13. Half of Winning Is Just Showing Up
II. Tried and True: Get-Real Sales Skills, Processes, and Tactics That Will Transform You into a True Consultative Sales Professional
14. Not Real: The Big-Hitter Approach: Part One of a Fable
15. When in Doubt, Go Study Your Customer’s Business! Part Two of a Fable
16. Business Acumen as Your Personal Differentiator
17. Searching for New Selling Opportunities
18. Not Real: Sales as a Remote-Control Business
19. Effective Techniques for Reducing Buyer Defensiveness
20. Not Real: Being Defeated by the Fear of Calling High
21. “Why Are You Calling on this Person?” “Because He’ll See Me!”
22. The Importance of Establishing Trust and Credibility
23. Not Real: Being Out of Sync with Customers’ Buying Preferences
24. Reading and Adapting to the Customer’s Buying Preferences
25. Discovery: The Most Direct Path to Sales Success
26. The Magic Question
27. Selling Strategically
28. The Get-Real Approach to Account Management
29. The Get-Real Approach to Opportunity Management
30. Being Strategic on Every Sales Call
31. Not Real: The Personal Relationship Trap
32. Understanding and Leveraging the Politics in Your Customer’s Organization
33. Presenting the Solution
34. Not Real: The Myth of Magic Closes
35. The Art of Get-Real Closing
III. Hidden Elements of Sales Professionalism that Will Make You Stand Out from the Rest
36. The Triumphs of Calling on Executives
37. Not Real: Are You Your Own Competition?
38. Managing the Competition and Customers’ Reasons for Buying
39. Not Real: A Typical Bad Proposal
40. A Real Proposal: Complete, Concise, Correct
41. Not Real: The Myth of Forecasting
42. Sales Forecasting Done Well
43. Numbers: Metrics that Matter
44. The Secret of Get-Real Goal Setting
45. Not Real: Performance-Draining Uses of Technology
46. Positive, Performance-Enhancing Uses of Technology
IV. The Bigger Picture in Professional Sales
47. Not Real: “You Are Either a Hunter or a Farmer”
48. Hunters and Farmers Are Not as Different as We Think!
49. Making Professional Relationships Work
50. Not Real: Love ‘Em and Leave ‘Em!
51. A Neglected Step in the Sales Process – Keeping Customers for Life
52. Not Real: Out of Balance, On the Edge
53. Living a Balanced Life
54. Not Real: Living on the Run
55. Living On Purpose – Sales as My Profession
56. Not Real: Surviving vs. Thriving – Settling for Mediocrity
57. Driving Unrelentingly for Sales Results
58. Living On Purpose Self-Survey
59. Concluding Thoughts
A. The Get-Real Sales Call Planner
Initial Discovery Planning Tool
B. The Get-Real Skills and Practices Checklist
Presentation Planning Tool
C. Bibliography
D. About the Authors
Index
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