Exceptional Selling: How the Best Connect and Win in High Stakes Sales

by Jeff Thull

Overview

Praise for Exceptional Selling "Thull's leading-edge thinking makes this book extraordinary. This straightforward guide to communicating across all cultures with credibility and respect will give you a significant competitive advantage in a complex and crowded global marketplace." Guenter Lauber, Vice President, Siemens Energy Rob Mancuso, Senior Vice President, Investors Financial Services Corp. "Thull has taken consultative and collaborative sales to new heights. The knowledge in this book is priceless. The trust and respect created by the diagnostic process is a must-have for success here in Asia and around the globe. It enables us to differentiate ourselves early and achieve long-lasting success." Tay Chong Siew, Major Customer Director, North Asia, BOC Gases "Having achieved exceptional success by working with Thull and implementing the strategy and process in his first two books, I'm astounded that his leading-edge thinking is captured in yet more detail in another brilliant book. The conversation examples of his powerful diagnostic approach will bring even greater success to our organization. Truly exceptional!" Alberto Chacin, Director of On Demand Services LAD, Oracle USA "Exceptional Selling is a dramatic departure from the vast majority of sales books. It scares me to see all the ways in which we can self-sabotage our sales opportunities-but that's only chapter one. Throughout the book, Thull describes compelling examples of how to succeed in a cluttered marketplace." Steven Rodriguez, Senior Vice President, Ceridian Corporation "Thull has again extended the concepts and thinking he developed in The Prime Solution and Mastering the Complex Sale. This is an essential read for anyone working to understand his customers in a complex world." Wayne Hutchinson, Vice President of SalesMarketing and Consulting, Shell Global Solutions International B.V.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781118038888
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	08/22/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	884 KB

About the Author

JEFF THULL is a leading-edge strategist and valued advisor for executive teams worldwide. As President and CEO of Prime Resource Group, he has designed and implemented business transformation programs for companies such as Shell Global Solutions, 3M, Microsoft, Siemens, Citicorp, IBM, Raymond James, and Georgia-Pacific, as well as many fast-track start-up companies. He has gained a reputation as a leader in the area of sales and marketing strategies for companies involved in complex sales. He is an in-demand public speaker who has delivered more than 2,500 speeches and seminars. Thull is also the author of The Prime Solution and the Wiley title, Mastering the Complex Sale. For more information, please visit www.primeresource.com.

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Table of Contents

Foreword.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Part I: "What We Got Here Is a Failure to Communicate."

1 The More You Sweat, the Less You Sell.

2 Nobody Buys a Value Proposition.

3 You’ve Got to Get Your Mind Right.

Part II: Taking It to the Street.

4 Earning the Keys to the Elevator.

5 Diagnosis Trumps Presentation Every Time.

6 Cutting Through the Smoke and Mirrors.

7 It Doesn’t Pay to Surprise a Corporation.

Part III: Breaking Away with Exceptional Credibility.

8 "Show Me the Money."

9 Connecting at the Level of Power and Decision.

Epilogue.

Index.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

In his book Exceptional Selling, sales expert Jeff Thull shatters decades-old assumptions about B2B selling and presents a new approach that he calls Diagnostic Selling. Thull delivers straight talk about the one-on-one skills that professionals need in order to set themselves apart, connect with their customers, and raise the bar for the competition. —CRM Magazine, October 2006

Exceptional Selling's approach extols the value of Diagnostic Selling: professional involvement and emotional detachment, not confrontation and persuasion. Author Jeff Thull breaks down complex business-to-business sales with clear, step-based directions, easy to understand diagrams and charts, and case studies of successes and failures. Exceptional Selling gently prods salespeople toward corrective strategies for errors that often go undiagnosed in the chase for the deal.—Sales & Marketing Management Magazine, October 2006

Exceptional Selling focuses heavily on the actual processes of the diagnostic process Thull advocates and offers excellent advice and examples on such topics as protecting the customer’s ego during the sales cycle, learning how to develop analyses of customer needs that are credible, and (perhaps my favorite topic in the book) why you should avoid those PowerPoint presentations the industry is addicted to. —Rick Chapman, Managing Editor and Publisher of Softletter

Many salespeople believe their sales are successes or failures based on emotional connections with customers who are either too involved or too distant. Author Jeff Thull sets out to change conventional thinking. Thull advises how to deal with all stages of the sales cycle stages. He breaks down complex business-to-business sales with clear, step-based directions, easy to understand diagrams and charts, and case studies of successes and failures. Exceptional Selling gently prods salespeople toward corrective strategies for errors that often go undiagnosed in the chase for the deal. —Tali Arbel, ManageSmarter.com

Editorial Reviews

"I am a Jeff Thull fan...Jeff's book has something profound to teach each of us- starting with me!"- Tom Peters, author of Re-Imagine!: Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age

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