This book teaches salespeople to rethink their approach to sales goals--so they not only sell a greater quantity but sell with the bottom line in mind.
In the high-pressure quest to make a sale, acquire a contract, and beat out other bidders, sales professionals frequently resort to short-term strategies like cutting prices, offering discounts, or making other concessions. By explaining how short-term strategies are destructive to the long-term sustainability of a business, High-Profit Selling helps salespeople instead focus their energy on “profit sales” that successfully execute product price increases while maintaining and strengthening current customer relationships.
In this invaluable resource, you’ll
how to avoid negotiating, actively listen to customers,match the benefits of products or services with customers’ needs and pains,confidently communicate value,and ensure prospects are serious and not shopping for price.Too many salespeople believe that a sale at any price is better than no sale at all. High-Profit Selling teaches them to do away with this logic and instead make sales that satisfy and add value to both the client and company.
MARK HUNTER, “The Sales Hunter,” helps individuals and companies identify better prospects and build more profitable customer relationships. An award-winning sales blogger and in-demand speaker, his clients include Samsung, Coca-Cola, American Express, and Sony. He is the author of High-Profit Selling.
After reading High-profit Prospecting of the same author, this book rather seems more of a stream of consciousness than a structured overview of how to boost your sales. The 4 years of additional experience that were put into High-profit Prospecting clearly show.
Admittedly, this book tries to cover more ground. You could use this as a general introduction to High-profit Prospecting, but in that case, skip the chapter on prospecting in this book.
It's really easy to read and full of practical advises. It will help me with my start-up. Especially, the part where the author says "profit is not a bad word" changed my mindset.