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Trust-Based Selling

Finding and Keeping Customers for Life

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  • Trust-Based Selling shows salespeople how to create new customers using a sales pro’s secret weapon: trust-based selling methods.

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. Trust

    • David A. Monty
    Pages 1-12
  3. Identify the Silent Sales Killers

    • David A. Monty
    Pages 13-28
  4. The Buyer Process

    • David A. Monty
    Pages 29-35
  5. The Sales Process

    • David A. Monty
    Pages 37-42
  6. Trust Sales Cycle

    • David A. Monty
    Pages 43-50
  7. Build Business Relationships

    • David A. Monty
    Pages 51-59
  8. Understand the Sales Equation

    • David A. Monty
    Pages 61-67
  9. Building Trustworthiness

    • David A. Monty
    Pages 69-82
  10. Niche Selling

    • David A. Monty
    Pages 83-94
  11. Power in Sales

    • David A. Monty
    Pages 95-98
  12. Selling Strategies

    • David A. Monty
    Pages 99-111
  13. Building Trust Before Opportunity

    • David A. Monty
    Pages 113-124
  14. Qualifying and Developing Opportunity

    • David A. Monty
    Pages 125-136
  15. Defense

    • David A. Monty
    Pages 137-142
  16. Back Matter

    Pages 143-146

About this book

The first year of developing a new sales territory or establishing new customers is a daunting task—especially in dog-eat-dog industries. The traditional advice is to train quickly on products, grab a customer list, start calling for appointments, discover opportunities, and close deals. In fact, almost every sales model out there is based on nothing more than "opportunity" management. But jumping straight to opportunity will leave salespeople chasing their tails and coming up short on payday.

With an emphasis on basic sales skills that have been refreshed for today's generation of buyers, Trust-Based Selling shows there is a significant problem you must overcome when opening up new accounts and territories. No matter what you are selling, your prospect already has a trusted relationship with an incumbent vendor and will continue to buy from that vendor even when you have the better solution. The playing field is not level—and you’re on the wrong side. So how can you compete to win?

"Trust is the grease that makes business sales effortless," writes sales pro and trainer Dave Monty in this quick-read book. Opportunity metrics are important, but trust—and a few sharp insider tactics Monty reveals—is the guidepost that leads to success. Trust-Based Selling—an abridgement of Monty's Sales Hunting—helps you start establishing trust before you step foot in a prospect’s door, and it shows you the tactics necessary to penetrate new accounts. It also explains:

  • The new basic sales skills as taught by master salesman Dave Monty
  • Why trust-based relationships enable you to get and keep customers for life
  • How to get in step with the customer’s buying cycle
  • How to establish trust-based and traditional sales metrics to guide your efforts

With advice based on Monty’s twenty years of IT sales and sales management experience—along with principles confirmed by academic research—Trust-Based Selling is a fast read that is packed with real-life examples and prescriptions for achieving sales success. It will prove a lifesaver for any new salesperson, as well as sales veterans needing to develop new skills and rekindle the zeal required to succeed in sales.

About the author

A veteran of the U.S. Navy, Dave Monty has sold software and hardware solutions for over 20 years. He has been account manager, regional manager, or director of sales for such companies as Cisco, EMC, and Dimention Data. He has also sold products made by Symantec, Hitachi, Sun, VMWare, and NetApp. Monty is currently developing territories on the Eastern seaboard for Fusion-io. He lives in North Carolina.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Trust-Based Selling

  • Book Subtitle: Finding and Keeping Customers for Life

  • Authors: David A. Monty

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0874-8

  • Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0), Apress Access Books

  • Copyright Information: David A. Monty 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-0875-5Published: 27 November 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-0874-8Published: 04 December 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 168

  • Number of Illustrations: 55 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Business and Management, general

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 19.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 29.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access