Author: John O' Gorman

How to Fix the Math Challenge at the Core of Selling

Sellers must encourage their buyers to do the math! They must provide their customers with a better calculator, spreadsheet and business case, otherwise a compelling argument for the purchase of their solution cannot be demonstrated. Price Negotiation: The Buyer's Broken…

A New Approach to Closing the Deal

Ideally, closing is not something that sellers do to buyers, it is something that buyer and seller do in order to get the deal sanctioned – to win over all the stakeholders, to prize budget from a competing project and…

How to Re-balance the Price Versus Value Conversation

Buyers often seem to be on a different wavelength. Their decision making criteria have changed. For the price obsessed buyer you must calculate your value before you can communicate it. If you can't communicate your value – all your value…

Crowd Source Selling and the Moments of Truth

Selling used to be the job of a few, but with the economic slowdown it quickly became apparent that sales has to be a feature of all job descriptions. From the CFO who leverages his contacts to get into some…