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Don’t Focus on Sales Velocity, Focus on Buying Velocity

Don’t Focus on Sales Velocity, Focus on Buying Velocity

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Oct 21, 2015 By Dave Brock

We spend a lot of time seeking to increase pipeline velocity, compressing sales cycles, and focusing on sales velocity. We are constantly driven to move faster. Sometimes in moving faster, we pass our customer and where they are in their own buying journey.

This is where so much of our problem with getting customers buy comes in. In our quest for increasing sales velocity (or sales acceleration) we become separated from our customers. We and they are in different places—as a result we become ineffective.

All of a sudden, we focus on the solution, our customers aren’t there yet. They see us as pitching, interested only in the sale, not in helping solve their problem. (Our research indicates every stage of misalignment decreases probability of winning by as much as 20%).

As fast as we want to go, we are governed by our customers’ buying velocities. If we are to be effective, we need to align our selling activities with their pace of buying.

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Having said this, we owe it to our customers to accelerate their buying velocity. Left alone, based on CEB data, they are more likely not to make a decision. Consequently, they fail to take advantage of the opportunities or improving their performance.

There are all sorts of things that get in the way of the customer’s ability to buy. The first is change itself. In driving customer buying velocity, we have to focus first on helping the customer determine their current operations are unacceptable, they have to change. If the customer has a heightened sense of urgency and a defined deadline for having a solution in place, we can help them accelerate their process and achieve the results expected.

Beyond this, helping them align themselves, priorities, agendas is critical. Helping them find common ground, rather than focusing on their differences. Helping grow that alignment until it’s sufficient to justify the solution enables them to reach a decision more quickly.

What’s important in buying and selling is not our selling velocity, but the customer’s buying velocity. What are you doing to help them speed up?

Filed Under: Sales Activities Tagged With: Relationships, Sales Process, Sales Strategies, Solving Problems

Source: Partners in Excellence

Dave Brock

Dave Brock

Dave Brock is the founder of Partners in EXCELLENCE, a consulting and services company helping to improve the effectiveness of business professionals with strategy development, organizational planning, and implementation. Dave has spent his career working for and with high performance organizations, ranging from the Fortune 25 to startups, including companies such as IBM, HP, Nokia, AT&T, Microsoft, General Electric, and many, many more. The work Dave does with business strategies is closely tied to personal effectiveness of the people in the organization. As a result, Dave is deeply involved in the development of a number of training and coaching programs.

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