Closing the Sale: 5 Sales Skills for Achieving Win-Win Outcomes and Customer Success

Craig Christensen · Dennis Susa · Sean Frontz

May 2019 · Key Lime Publishing

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Customer Success Leads to Your Success

If you liked Crucial Conversations, The Challenger Sale or books by Grant Cardone, you’ll love Closing the Sale.

Guide the conversation: Closing is a process, not an event. In the closing process, there are inevitably many conversations with a variety of potential clients. Closing the Sale will teach you how to influence good decisions to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes from these conversations.

Turn talking into decision making: For clients, decision making can seem daunting. They may often favor the noncommittal "maybe" over the decisive "yes" or "no." Closing the Sale will teach you how to help your clients make the best possible decisions for both their business goals and your own.

Customer success is your success: Closing the Sale will show you how to attain the only real success: the win-win situation. Because the more you focus on creating success for your clients, the more successful you will be.

Closing the Sale will teach you the five essential skills to the sale closing process:

• Identify the End in Mind Decision

• Address Client Key Beliefs

• Resolve Objections

• Prepare the Conditions for Good Decision Making

• Open Purposefully, Close Powerfully

Customer Success Leads to Your Success If you liked Crucial Conversations, The Challenger Sale or books by Grant Cardone, you’ll love Closing the Sale. Guide the conversation: Closing is a process, not an event. In the closing process, there are inevitably many conversations with a variety of p...

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A committed long-distance runner and father of six, Craig Christensen knows all about endurance. Since earning his MBA at Harvard, Craig's career has included previous responsibilities as a Wall Street banker, commercial developer, and leading organizational consultant. He is a cofounder of Ninety Five 5?a sales transformation practice on the "Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Companies in America" list?which was acquired by FranklinCovey in 2013. He is now Global Practice Leader of FranklinCovey's Sales Performance Practice. Craig helps clients succeed by winning more profitable business, combining the best of leadership development, behavior change, and sales management into measurable results.Dennis Susa has played nearly every role in the areas of sales, consulting, and field marketing. A writer, outdoorsman, amateur archeologist, and married father of three boys, his personal interests are as wide-ranging as his professional background. He earned a BA at Hillsdale College in Michigan. Prior to joining FranklinCovey's Sales Performance Practice, Dennis held a number of sales leadership positions for over two decades with IBM and Microsoft. Today, having developed and delivered sales transformation programs across a wide spectrum of enterprises and industries, Dennis's core expertise is building, coaching, and managing sales and consulting teams in complex selling situations.Sean Frontz has taught leaders and managers worldwide in the principles of effectiveness since earning his master's degree in psychology from Loyola University in 1996. Over the past seven years, he has specialized in understanding what makes the best salespeople the best. As a Senior Consultant in FranklinCovey's Sales Performance Practice, Sean has helped design practical tools and pragmatic systems that both sales professionals and leaders use to increase their sales performance. Father to five children, Sean lives in Charleston, South Carolina, where his family enjoys boating and outdoor activities.

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