Growth Dynamics Get Down

Hey everybody. Charlie Hauk, president, lead trainer, founder of Growth Dynamics. It's another one of those Fast Tip Fridays for you. You know, one of the things I've really enjoyed about being in this business for as long as I have 36 to be 37 years in October, the ideas and the concepts that we share with our clients, they're not scripted. They're not memorize these things.

Hey, I've got a real easy one today. It's got no real content, but I just thought, along with everybody else in the world, I'd do a list as well. So what I put together for this Fast Tip Friday is a list of 10 movies that may be great watches on a rainy, possibly miserable Memorial Day weekend. So I thought I'd give you a list. I have watched parts or all of all of these movies. Some of them, I want to tell you—particularly the first one on my list—do not watch it with small children and deeply religious people in the room, as the language and the behavior are rather challenging for a lot of people. So here's my list.

Symptoms:

Diane returned from the product demo certain that the features and benefits she shared with her prospect had wowed them. The buyer nodded when Diane asked if the product fit into the product categories they offered to their customer base, and everyone else that sat in on the meeting told her how much they liked what she had presented. She felt as good about this call as she had in a long time, but now six weeks later there was still no purchase order and the prospect had gone radio silent. How did their excitement turn into Diane's frustration?

Hey everybody, Charlie Hauck, Fast Tip Friday time. Hey, look, this is a topic that I think a lot of people in the consulting business don't want to talk about, because it sounds like we're disparaging human being. And I want to make sure that's not what we're trying to do.

Hey, I want to talk a little bit tactical here today. I've been sharing some stuff on sort of process and personal management, but I want to dip back into the into the tactics pool here for you today, one of the things that we see happening far too often with our clients in the business development realm is that they are not willing to plant their feet on getting something if they give something.

Symptoms:

Bob was exhausted after seeing over 15 accounts in the past week. He had talked about football, politics, family and even some industry news in order to get the client engaged in a conversation that might give him an opening to pitch his latest and greatest widget.

Symptoms:

One of the most common objections salespeople get is about price: "That's a bit more than we were thinking about paying." "Your prices are kind of high." "That just doesn't fit our budget" are typical comments.

Today, I wanted to get a little more tactical, especially as I think about the things we're all trying to accomplish—how we're working to advance our careers in business development. I wanted to share something because I keep running into a particular word that drives me crazy when I hear it from clients or prospects who are looking to improve their results.

Today, I want to bring up a topic that I don't think enough people discuss before it becomes a problem: how to manage team selling effectively.

Symptoms:

Bob found himself staring blankly at his calendar. The year was nearing an end and the speed with which the year had flown by surprised Bob again, just like it had each of the last 15 years, since he had started in this business.