Think Like Your Customer: A Winning Strategy To Maximize Sales By Understanding And Influencing How And Why Your Customers Buy - Softcover

Stinnett, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071441883 ISBN 13: 9780071441889

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2004

Synopsis

How to capture customers by learning to think the way they do

The most common complaint Bill Stinnett hears from his corporate clients is that would-be vendors and suppliers "just don't understand our business".

Drawing upon his years of experience as a Fortune 500 consultant, he offers sales and marketing professionals a powerful framework for understanding the inner workings of a business; knowing what motivates its executives and influences their buying decisions; identifying a company's organizational structure and decision-making psychology; and using that information to develop a winning strategy for influencing how and why the customer buys.

About this title

About the Author

Bill Stinnett is the founder and president of Sales Excellence, Inc. and the author of the bestselling Think Like Your Customer. Bill is a highly sought-after speaker appearing at sales meetings, conferences, conventions, and annual sales kickoffs worldwide for clients such as General Electric, Microsoft, SAP, Verizon, and IBM.

From the Back Cover

"Even after thirty-five years in this business, I found Think Like Your Customer to be loaded with powerful and proven advice, which I began putting to use immediately. This is a very practical guide to better understanding how your customers think."
--Bill Zeitler, senior vice president and group executive, Systems and Technology Group, IBM Corporation

"Page after page, Stinnett manages to connect with your intuition, making you feel like his ideas are your own. The result is enlightening, compelling, and powerfully motivating. You'll want to stand up and go sell something right away!"
--Luc Wathieu, associate professor, Harvard Business School

"Think Like Your Customer offers a wealth of practical solutions for sales executives to develop more profitable relationships with customers. In this climate, where customer relationships mean everything, this book is a must read."
--Melinda Ligos, editor in chief, Sales & Marketing Management magazine

In Think Like Your Customer Bill Stinnett draws upon more than two decades as a sales professional and consultant to the Fortune 500 to offer you a powerful new approach for connecting with clients and building enduring, highly profitable customer relationships. This book arms you with the strategies and tools you need to:

• Identify your customer's most important business goals and objectives
• Tie your product and services solutions to the achievement of your client's goals
• Understand how executives think and how they make buying decisions
• Maximize profitability and accelerate your customer's buying process

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0071441883
• ISBN 13: 9780071441889
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288