Selling

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Selling was something that worked when the customer knew less than you did. Selling was something that worked when customers had to depend almost exclusively on companies for information about products produced by those companies. Selling was all about "convincing" someone that they "needed" something.

Well, those days are gone, over, kaput. Not in the minds of company managers, sales managers, or salespeople, mind you. Nope, they're still playing the game as if selling still works, and selling still matters. It doesn't.

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Well, Dear Readers, my new book, Roadmap to Revenue: How to Sell the Way Your Customers Want to Buy, is finally out there - in print and in ebook form, available everywhere (including Amazon, of course).

I wanted you to know what the book contains and what it can do for you.

Not like all the others

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Oh, poor, poor us. We are in such a state. Everywhere we turn, we see evidence of decline. We are subjected to a steady diet of discouragement, every waking hour. Here in the States, we are told that our economic heyday is over, that we are in a terrible mess, that our debt is currently 90% of our GDP, which is obviously unsustainable. That the world is in turmoil, and on and on and on.

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Every day I see companies committing Selling Suicide. They are desperate for new sales, but because they are clueless about what their buyer cares about, they place one barrier after another in the way of the buyer - a buyer who was already on their site, virtual money in hand, totally committed to buying. Only the most determined buyers make it through the maze of confusion, conflicting messages, and missing information. It is so sad.

Witness a real-life Selling Suicide situation.

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When you read the latest books about how people buy, you find that they all tend to have the same fatal flaw. In each book, even though the authors are describing today's savvy customer, the salesperson is still portrayed as having more knowledge than the customer. He is described as the main player who acts as a guide to the customer's buying process - as if the customer were ignorant and needed the salesperson's help.

This is completely untrue. Now more than ever.