Learn the three “value conversation moments” your sales reps must master to deliver conversations that win.
Tim Riesterer, co-author of Conversations that Win the Complex Sale and Customer Message Management, shows you how to create, confirm and capture value across the buying cycle.
6. DISTINCT POINT OF VIEW
Status Quo
Threatened
Identify
NewNeeds
Define
Solution
Identify
Viable Vendors
Review
Approaches
Make
Decision
74
“Why Change?” “Why You”
COMMODITIZED CONVERSATION
26% %
BUYING VISION BAKE-OFF
-3 -1 +1 +2 +3-2
• Show inconsistencies in model
• Identify unconsidered needs
• Align with unspecified strengths
• Here’s what you say you need
• Here’s what we do different
• Here’s the benefit you will get
7. Changing someone’s mind
isn’t a question of pushing
new information on people
and trying to explain it in words.
It’s more about helping people
see the inconsistency in
themselves and then all of a
sudden the mental model will
shift naturally and easily.
Gary Klein, scientist and author
“The Power of Intuition” and “Seeing What Others Don’t”
8. New Brain
Designed for Analysis
Old Brain
Designed for Survival
Decision-Making Engine
Neuroscience
9. Social Psychology
Kahneman, D. and Tversky, A. (1984). “Choices, Values, and Frames.”
American Psychologist 39 (4): 341–350
GainLoss
Value
3X stronger preference
to avoid loss vs. acquire
gains = “Loss Aversion”
Prefer risk that might
mitigate a loss =
“Risk Seeking”
Outcome
“PROSPECT THEORY”
12. 12
Didn’t appreciate…. The
problem is as big or coming
as fast as you say?!
Didn’t realize… there was
even something to fix that
issue or annoyance?!
Didn’t know… that was a
problem I was having until
you pointed it out?!
Under-Valued
Un-Met
Unknown
13. CFO
CMO
CIO
More than typical Personas
M
Old Automation SS & DB New Competitor
SITUATIONDISPOSITION
Inconsistencies ……………………………….. Live Here!
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Homework
Develop distinct point of view to show ‘inconsistencies’
and defeat the status quo
Create business impact model that puts current state/
future state/ business change into financial context
Pre-build pivotal agreements to exchange value at critical
moments your prospects want you to give it away