Wednesday

The Future of Sales



The Harvard Business Review recently posted some extremely interesting and somewhat controversial articles about "Solution" selling - the leading sales model in the contract furniture industry.  I find their view entirely convincing as to how this technique is increasingly less effective.

This article started the fuss.

They then followed it up with this one.


The HBR recommends this selling guide.  The best salespeople are replacing traditional “solution selling” with “insight selling”—a strategy that demands a radically different approach across several areas of the purchasing process.


Our customers are more and more informed everyday and we have to recognize this in order to serve them and prosper ourselves.

By Reuben Walker