Disruptive Selling: Campaigning

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With sales managers, ‘activity’ is all the rage. How many cold calls, first appointments, and lunches did you have this week? What is the status of this and what is the status of that? To be sure, successful salespeople are active ones. But high levels of activity alone do not produce deals. These activities have to be purposeful to work; there needs to be a mission behind them. Blitzing 100 CFOs with cold calls doesn’t lead anywhere on its own – that is purposeless.

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Disruptive Selling: One Problem, One Service

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The natural disposition of most salespeople hunting for new logos is a desire to offer the world to their prospects. Hunters work hard to establish contact with C-level executives. Unfortunately, when they land that phone call or email exchange, they usually never win a first appointment. This is because the most common approach in asking for a first appointment with an executive is for the salesperson to give a corporate capabilities presentation to the prospect. This is not something that anyone in the customer's c-suite wants to spend their time doing. They are spending large amounts of time on their own company, and the thought of sitting through a one-hour presentation on every service another company offers is repulsive to them.

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