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Get Onto The Buying Decision Team On The First Call
When I tell sales folks their sales cycle is double what it should be, they assume I’m lying. But I’m not. I’m just using a different model than sales to being my client contact: Given that the typical sales model builds in time delays and leaves the seller out of the behind-the-scenes discussions going on, there is no way to get onto the Buying Decision Team on the first call.

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Selling to Different Customers
Each customer uses different criteria when making a buying decision. The fact that a salesperson can understand this criteria and help the customer make that buying decision, is why a good salesperson does so well. But what do you do when you’re trying to sell without a salesperson. This article will show you how to create the same sales experience on your website to increase sales.

Involving your Team in Decisions
As a manager, you have come to realize that decision making is a major part of your job. Some decisions have become second nature, and some require a bit more thought, but you’re able to handle even the toughest of them without much difficulty. As the dynamic of the work place changes, however, decisions will more often be made by teams rather than individuals. Managers will assume the leadership positions in this team decision-making process.

Buying Facilitation® vs. buyer facilitation
Lately, I’ve noticed folks using the term buyer facilitation. While I can make a good guess that the term is a version of Buying Facilitation®, it is being used in a ’sales’ context. So maybe, the term is to be used in conjunction with Buying Facilitation®. After all, the buyer must manage both the internal decision issues and the need-related decision issues before a purchase happens.
Anatomy Of A Buying Decision
Before your prospect makes the decision to buy your product or service, four decisions must be made. For the most part these decisions will be made inside their heads or in conjunction with others depending on whether it is a joint decision making process or not. In small to medium sized businesses one person may make the buying decision, but in larger companies it is usual for the decision be made by a group of people. Whatever the amount of people involved in the buying decision, the same four decisions must be answered.
Facilitating Buying Decisions: a definition
Recently, I’ve noticed many folks using the term ‘facilitating buying decisions.’ First, let me state that we have a program by that title, that can be licensed to train in companies. It’s a very fun program, teaching sellers how to sit in a buyer’s seat and learn every aspect of how they choose vendors and solutions. Learners not only learn how their buyer’s buy, but I teach them the 6 most powerful Facilitative Questions to help buyers make a decision in their favor. Here’s a preview of one of the questions: How would you and your Buying Decision Team know when it was time to bring in an additional resource that will fit with the ones you’re currently using?
Train Trainers on Team Building to Manage Three Responses to Conflicts
In recent years there has been a significant increase in team collaboration and team work. Many of the projects in companies are now carried out with small teams and running teams smoothly has become a critical part of corporate life. Unfortunately, because teams are more collaborative, teams can create conflicts. This article explores the nature of these conflicts.

Who’s in the meeting – and who’s not?
So many sales folks are targeting ‘appointments’ these days. I wonder if you know who actually is in attendance. And who isn’t but should be. As you enter your meeting, do you know what percent of the entire Buying Decision Team is there? What weight your contact has on the full Buying Decision Team?
A Buying Decision is a Change Management Problem
The sales model focuses on needs assessment and solution placement. Buying is a change management activity. They are two different activities, done at two different – and opposite – points along the buying decision journey.
“Buy on Emotion” now supported by brain scans.
There's a tendency for Salespeople to concentrate on logic because they feel that emotions are too flaky to have any real importance on a buying decision. But Economists have recently embraced the idea that irrational psychology, rather than cool calculation, plays a significant role in buying decisions.

Matching Team Types and Focus
Managers' growing understanding of the power of a team-based organization has created an explosion of teams. We're now seeing a profusion of high-involvement teams, high-performance teams, corrective action teams, service and quality improvement teams, project teams, task forces, steering councils, process management and improvement teams, problem solving teams, cross-functional teams, departmental teams, work teams, regional or branch teams, self-directed and self-managed teams, semi-autonomous teams...to name just a few.

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