Sales - Answers Includes all activities related to the exchange of a product or service to a buyer for
money.
Sales Process 1 - Answers Research/Preparation
Sales Process 2 - Answers Approaching the Customer
Sales Process 3 - Answers Needs Discovery
Sales Process 4 - Answers Value Proposition
Sales Process 5 - Answers Handling Objections/Closing
1800s - Answers Snake Oil Salesman
Late 1800s - Answers Sales Became Professional
1916 - Answers First World Salesmanship Congress
1918 - Answers Sales became seen as a science
1923-24 - Answers IBM/Ford create sales training and recruit reps
1925 - Answers "The Psychology of Selling" is published
1950s - Answers Door to Door Selling is the norm
1960s-70s - Answers More customer orientation and consultative selling
1985 - Answers Strategic selling methods for larger accounts
20th Century - Answers Salespeople are strategic business partners
Building Rapport - Answers A close and harmonious relationship in which the people or groups
concerned understand each other's feelings or ideas and communicate well.
Value Propositions - Answers Compelling, tangible statements on how a company or individual will
benefit from buying something from you
Features
Benefits
Evidence
S in Spin - Answers Situation - Basic information about customer situation
P in Spin - Answers Problem - get the customer concentrating on particular issues