AIM Archives - Tag: probing questions

Want to sell more? Paradoxically, you need to do less “selling.”

500-VOC Skills that Drive Sales

Instead, ask the right questions about your customer’s problems. The consultative selling movement was given a major boost in 1988 with Neil Rackham’s ground-breaking research in SPIN Selling. By observing more than 35,000 sales calls, they established that the most successful salespeople ask great questions. Decades later, we had our own question: Are some questions more likely to drive sales? (The answer is “yes”!) We surveyed 396 B2B sales professionals with over 6,000 years of combined experience concerning 12 voice-of-customer skills.

Download AIM Institute research report, VOC Skills that Drive B2B Sales

What’s ‘filtering out’ customer needs, so that your R&D misses them?

429-Filter customer visits

Every one of your B2B customers has needs… problems to be solved. What’s filtering them out, preventing your solution providers from understanding them? 1) Poor listening skills when your employees meet with them? 2) Few probing questions? 3) Haphazard call reports? 4) Weak CRM datamining? You can change all this when your customer-facing employees use Everyday VOC.

More in Everyday VOC white paper, www.EVOCpaper.com