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Fly’s Friday Five: Successful Sellers Value Trust Over Being Liked

Brooks Group

Many sellers have a predisposition to being liked, and we have learned through surveys, work with clients, interviews with buyers, and in our own experiences that right now trust is much more important than being liked. I think as a sales leader, as a company leader, we ought to think about this throughout our organization.

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Understanding Account-Based Marketing: A Podcast Interview with Bev Burgess, Founder and Managing Principal, Inflexion Group

Farland Group

Louise, like me, is a career marketer but Tim has come up through IBM as a sales, operations, and strategy leader. We realize that’s beyond marketing—it’s marketing, it’s sales and account management, it’s customer success, and it’s your executives, all working together to focus on those accounts.

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Looking Back on One Year: An Interview with Mike Abbott, Thomson Reuters

Farland Group

“The biggest thing for us was making sure this wasn’t viewed as Thomson Reuters trying to bring critical clients together for selfish reasons. We didn’t want it to come across as any kind of sales or marketing push or related to any existing business dealings.

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Client Value Propositions…the least used, and most critical sales strategy today

Better Ways Sales Strategies

I’d like to introduce a provocative alternative: your client is less interested in distinguishing your offering from competing alternatives and is far more compelled by quantifying and achieving their business objectives (or value) associated with their investment – regardless of whom they choose to help them to achieve this value.