The Profitable Selling Program ®
The Profitable Selling Program ® is a hands-on, experiential workshop that provides the business, financial, and customer engagement strategies necessary to compete on value. The objective is to identify, quantify and deliver profitable business results for your customers. In doing so, you will improve your bottom line and win more business.
Now is the time to equip your sales team with the knowledge, skills, and tools to position your company for success during these rapidly changing economic times. Profitable Selling provides sales professionals with the confidence to have stronger business conversations andto ensure they deliver value for your company and for your customers!
Customer engagement - the missing component
We believe today’s go-to-market sales strategies need to go beyond situational selling, playbooks, and pitch decks, to a more dynamic customer engagement model. To meet the buyer where they are, we focus on Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) for the key roles you sell to. Profitable selling occurs at every level of customer engagement, the key is aligning seller engagement, selling strategies, and requisite skills with what drives buying decisions.
The Customer Engagement Model™ maximizes the value of your sales process and sales methodology by allowing you to meet customers where they are and how they want to engage.
Customer engagement focuses on how customers buy and aligns seller engagement, selling strategies, and skills with what drives buying decisions. They are different based on the buyer’s role, their KPI’s and unique buying requirements.
Sales methodology is a set of principles, practices, and techniques that a sales team adopts to achieve their sales goals, their approach to selling, and their methods for building relationships.
Sales process is designed to navigate a prospective customer through the process from initial contact to close. CRM and other enabling tools are critical to creating muscle memory around capturing the buying cycle and the sales progress being achieved.
What our
clients say
“Everyone leaves the workshop thinking like a business owner. This provides greater insights to how we bring hard-dollar impact to their business”.
“Value must be quantified and demonstrate how a customer benefits from a Total Cost of Ownership approach rather than focusing only on product and price.”
Selling profitably - a new mindset
At the core of the new sales transformation is a new mindset, a different way of thinking about what you sell and how you sell.
Too often, companies are not rewarded for the financial impact they deliver. It’s up to the salesperson to know how to identify, quantify and communicate their impact. If they don’t, who will? We know customers won’t do it.
Winning against price
If salespeople are unaware of the economic value they deliver, they often fall victim to the only metric customers do understand, price. Let’s face it, price is quantifiable.
Profit-centered salespeople are a new breed of salesperson. To their customers, salespeople are viewed as peers. They speak the language of business and profit improvement. They bring ideas, thought leadership, and innovation to every interaction.
They understand how to identify, quantify, sell, and deliver profit improvement for customers. And when they do that, they become Profit Heroes to their customers!
We wrote the book!
'Profit Heroes: Breakthrough Strategies for Winning Customers and Building Profits
- Get our new audiobook on Audible, iTunes & Amazon!
- Listen below to the introduction to Profit Heroes - “The Need to Transform Selling”
"Now, more than ever, salespeople need to understand finance and profitability if they are to sell effectively. Bob Rickert has written an informative and thoroughly enjoyable book that provides a roadmap for salespeople seeking to become "Profit Heroes.' I would like to include it in a course for our sales students at K-State! I highly recommend this book to anyone in the sales arena."
-Dr. Dawn Deeter-Schmelz, professor; director of the National Strategic Selling Institute; and J.J. Vanier Distinguished Chair of Relational Selling & Marketing, Kansas State University
Topics included in the book:
- The Need to Transform Selling
- It is All about Profitability—How Customers Are Changing
- From Commoditization to Profit Impact—A Sales Transformation
- The Profit-Centered Selling Process
- Customer Discovery and Financial Understanding
- Bringing Thought Leadership and Insight to Customers
- Accessing Economic Buyers
- Selling Profit Improvement and Proving It!