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Finding A Prospect vs. Creating A Prospect

Strategy Driven

People buy something when they cannot resolve a business problem AND they have gotten appropriate buy-in from those folks and departments who will be involved with a new solution (stakeholders – usually unknown to sellers) AND whose buying patterns match a seller’s selling patterns (Remember telemarketing? Consider leaving a comment!

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Change management and sales: influencing the buying decision path

Strategy Driven

Sales, marketing automation, and the new telemarketing field, ignore the change management aspect of what buyers must accomplish and instead focus on figuring out how and what and to whom to pitch their solution. I actually developed a pre-sales model that facilitates a buyer’s change management process call Buying Facilitation®.

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Credibility Crisis: 4 Sure-Fire Strategies for Cultivating Consumer Trust

Strategy Driven

Amid improved consumer confidence, with the April 2015 confidence index of 95.2 Of course, it’s imperative to leverage these public relations 'wins' in your sales, marketing and business development efforts. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. well above April 2014's 81.7 Transparency Translates.

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Closing the Gap Between Blue Ocean Strategy and Execution

Harvard Business Review

For any strategy to be successful and sustainable, an organization must develop an offering that attracts buyers; it must create a business model that enables the company to make money out of its offering; and it must motivate the people working for or with the company to execute the strategy. This is a trap many companies fall into.