Insight selling is the process of providing powerful, relevant financial insights to your prospects so that they can make smarter purchasing decisions.
As a sales leader, you undoubtedly have a well-developed sense of the importance of analytics in supporting your team’s success and the need to provide value via insights in your meetings with potential buyers. But the ability to actually leverage those insights in a way that is meaningful to the growth of their bottom line is not so intuitive. In fact, most sales leaders are not aware of the specific steps to follow in order to transform data into real growth opportunities.
This podcast episode and post will provide insight into what insight selling is, how to make it a part of your sales process, and how to create powerful financial insights. It will cover the types of questions you have to ask and the types of insights you need to come up with to transform your business.
About Stephen
Dr. Stephen Timme is the President and Founder of Finlistics, a B2B sales leadership company that promotes insight-led selling. FinListics teaches B2B sales professionals how to elevate their sales to the C-suite. FinListics currently operates in more than 32 countries worldwide and continues to expand its global footprint annually.
With a beginning in academia, Dr. Timme was a finance professor at Georgia State University when Fortune 500 companies would often approach him for consulting projects. Eventually, he was asked by UPS to work with them for a year, which led to another and additional consulting roles. After several years of teaching and consulting, Dr. Timme left academics to begin FinListics to help sellers help buyers by:
- telling them something they don’t know,
- showing the business and financial benefits of their solutions, and
- make their life easier
Dr. Timme’s financial background and experiences with buying executives help him provide sellers with answers to these requests.
In this episode, he shares from experience how we can use insight selling to increase pipeline with powerful financial analytics.
Some topics we discussed include:
- Why sellers don’t believe they have anything new to share with potential/future buyers
- What is insight selling
- How to use financial analytics to drive growth via insight selling
- Why sellers should develop an executive mindset
- Why get a handle on executive compensation
- How to get to know a customers industry in order to offer insights
- How to connect the dots for buyers with financial insights
- What is the power of one and why use it
- How do you go from value proposition to making a business case
- and much much more…
Listen to the episode
Related links and resources
- Check out Finlistics to learn more about Insight-Led Selling. Lots of value information in Resources
- Email info@finlistics.com for:
- Complimentary chapter 1 – Executive Insights from Amazon Best Seller – “Insight-Led Selling; Adopt an Executive Mindset, Build Credibility, Communicate with Impact”
- And/or more information about FinListics services
- Please note that you heard about FinListics after listening to the Predictable B2B Success podcast
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