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What B2B Buyers Want From Salespeople

B2B buyers want salespeople who understand their business problems before recommending a product. That is the central finding of buyer research conducted by A Sales Growth Company, which surveyed B2B buyers across industries to identify the gap between what buyers...

Gap Selling vs. SPIN Selling: How Two Diagnostic Methodologies Compare

SPIN Selling and Gap Selling are built on the same foundational direction: both require the seller to develop a buyer's problem before presenting a solution. SPIN's research established that buyers act only after moving from recognizing a problem to explicitly wanting...

Gap Selling vs. MEDD(P)ICC: A Complete Comparison for Sales Teams

The question sales teams running MEDD(P)ICC rarely get a clear answer to is how their reps should run discovery. MEDD(P)ICC was built in the early 1990s by Jack Napoli and Dick Dunkel at PTC to identify whether a deal had the characteristics of a winner. A Sales...

Gap Selling vs. Force Management: Which Methodology Fits Your Team

The choice between Gap Selling and Force Management is not about which methodology has a better client list. It is about which problem each was built to solve — and whether those problems describe what is actually broken on your team. Force Management trains reps to...