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Kim Ventura-Perkins 1st
Senior Manager, Sales Enablement | DocuSign
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How do you get a 2.5k+ field organization of sellers to speak the same language?

You partner with one of the best in the business, Winning by Design, to deploy a singular sales methodology to better equip our teams.

Over the last 3 months, a small group of Sales Enablement leaders had the opportunity to learn a SaaS-focused sales methodology and how to deploy globally.

I am confident that through this methodology, we will be able to level up as a sales organization and better drive #IMPACT with our clients.

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Niko Thielsch 1st
VP Sales & CS | Alasco
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A few weeks ago we joined forces with Winning by Design. We started a 360 approach to level up everything from sales org, to processes, tool stack and of course our GTM market approach. (why? well spoiler #BANT, #MEDDIC all nice but not state of the art because they are #seller-centric and not #customer-centric. They all have their importance but falling short covering the entire funnel from prospecting, closing/winning to onboarding and LTV -> that is why we adopt the #SPICED framework).

For me as a Rep (long time ago) and as Revenue Leader, the SPICED framework was and is a game changer. The impact on GTM, the operational level, the business model and the underlying data required makes it unbeatable for me.

In the following week, all our Reps will go through the best in class sales and customer success training covering the entire sales funnel, skills, mindset and coaching frameworks.
This is a massive investment into our company’s future and primarily in our current talent to develop sales & customer success ⭐️ superstars ⭐️

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Richard McGuinness 1st
VP of Sales EMEA | ClickUp
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I recently completed the ‘Mastership in Revenue Architecture’ course and can’t begin to tell you how useful it has been. As a revenue professional, understanding the baseline models of the revenue machine is crucial for success, and too often we spend our time downloading the ‘software’ of sales success without really getting to understand the ‘operating system’ that everything runs on. This is where the Revenue Architecture model kicks in.

This isn’t a course on ‘how to sell’ or ‘where to find your ICP’ – this is a course that covers the fundamentals of GTM model design and execution, and I cannot recommend it highly enough. If you have chosen to build a career as a revenue professional, you should consider this course an update to your core OS.

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David Collett 1st
EMEA Referral Partner Manager | Catapult
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The most advanced and complete SaaS sales / GTM framework (and training) I’ve ever come across. PERIOD!

I’ve consumed all the most famous sales methods you can think of. But it always felt like the picture was incomplete and something was missing. That was until I discovered WbD and their unique YouTube videos. It literally blew me away and change my view on SaaS sales methodology. Forget about tricks to “close the deal” and wing it like the pro…If like me you’ve been longing for a sales training framework that breathe data, can reconcile all other methods you’ve learned about, put processes and models first, then your search is over.

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Ethan Gustav 1st
VP of Revenue, North America and Global Accounts | Infobip
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To be clear, the team at WbD that we partnered with were incredible. So skilled, professional, collaborative, empathetic, and appropriately flexible and prescriptive to our acute needs.

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Rachel Phipps 1st
Director of Customer Success, EMEA | SmartRecruiters
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Rather than simply sign off, I want to say I’m DELIGHTED with the output we have now…Overall, I’m blown away by the work that has gone into this. This significantly supports us to raise the bar and deliver a notably higher standard of CS. This WILL become what we live and breathe within CS, and I know the team will embrace the content, structure and guidance it provides.

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Rich Taylor 1st
VP of Operations and Chief of Staff | Qualio
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The expert team from Winning by Design dove deep into our go-to-market teams, processes and data to uncover some critical growth levers for our business. Not only are these insights and action plans essential for our next stage of growth, but they are also helping to get everyone on the same page! Would I recommend Winning by Design to fellow B2B SaaS Growth Leaders – absolutely!

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Kevin Lord 1st
Head of Practice Sales | FreeAgent
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Using SPICED is a firm favourite of mine!

The Winning by Design methodology is what we have implemented successfully at FreeAgent the past 3 or 4 years.

Simple sales framework to help with your conversations keeps you consistent and, more importantly, in control of what is being said!

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Koen Stam 1st
Head of Benelux | Personio
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Winning by Design is deep to my heart. Have had the pleasure implementing WBD sales fundamentals in 2017.

Can very very very much recommend Roelof Hengst, Dan Smith, Maria Abad Baides, and their free great content and blueprints on their website.

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Kevin McCombie 1st
Depot Support Engineer | TransPennine Express
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They have a very easy-to-use learning system and blueprints you can download to help with learning. They conducted live sessions, which were very interactive; the instructor worked with all members of the course and showed a very high level of professionalism and, to top it off, had great energy.

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Megan Wagstaff 1st
Sales Development Manager | The Arbinger Institute
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After our first class of Prospecting with Intent with Winning by Design I’m excited to rework emails in our sequences.

The “RRR” Framework has helped us realize we need to be better at providing value for our clients in our emails. I’m pumped to see what this will do for our SDR team! If you are an SDR leader or an SDR I recommend learning about “RRR”- Relevance, Reward, and Request.

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Hugo Roget 1st
Business Development Executive UK | Ryte
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Thank you to Winning by Design for providing such a great course. Our Trainer Antoine Mandy is really next level!

I highly recommend any sales team to go through this training, it really brings up the level of professionalism we give our prospects during meetings and ultimately helps us deliver better value to our customers.

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Felix Beccar 1st
CFO | MURAL
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The amazing team at Winning by Design has very powerful frameworks and examples, a lot of free content on Youtube too

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Natalia Ardila Mejia 1st
Chief Experience Officer | Kriptos
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Helpful and great methodology to learn. What I liked best was the impact of the storytelling “hero story”, spiced framework, and the importance of the 1st value and full value.

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Charae Harrison 2nd
Senior Mid Market Account Manager | Levelset
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Wbd is changing the way I approach selling! I love how simple it was to understand. I’m a visual learner and I feel like the homework and training was a home run for me. Our instructor even tailored the training to our specific type of sale!

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Alee Hess 2nd
Senior Mid-Market Expansion Account Manager | Levelset
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The trainers are incredible, as well as the platform itself. The first thing they teach you is how people learn — then they show you how we’ll utilize that knowledge to make our time training together more impactful.

Their process exposes you to the information multiple times and in various ways (read, watch, talk it out). The collateral provided is helpful to reference back to as well. Trainers are personable and make the courses more enjoyable.

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Walter Brown 1st
Sr. Account Executive | ThoughtTrace
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Excellent sales courses. I like the suggested real-scenario application of this which was highlighted in the pre-work videos. The upside of using it is that it gives you a proven plan of attack.

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Jason Seale 1st
Director of Client Support Services | Central 1
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Very knowledgeable and engaging presenters help bring the materials alive, allowing the lesson to resonate better.

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Mike Buccialia 1st
Fractional Sales Leader
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Like most things these days, a lot of that has become data-driven, and in my opinion Jacco van der Kooij and the team at Winning by Design have a lock on what metrics you need to inform your strategy and drive growth.

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Consultative Sales Training

When sales professionals decide that they need to learn more about a sales methodology — whether it’s consultative sales or any other — they inevitably hit the books. Online searches for terms like “best B2B sales books” and “best tech sales books” return hundreds of results that touch on consultative sales. Some have titles that sound familiar because they have stood the test of time. Others have someone whose face you recognize on the cover. All of them promise, usually in boldface type, that they will share the secrets of making effective sales calls, discerning what the customer really needs, and building long-term relationships that lead to more sales in the future.

But no matter how great their advice or how innovative their approach might be, even the best books on consultative selling fall short for the same reason: They aren’t a substitute for consultative sales training. This methodology, like any other, requires that you take a more proactive approach. For example, you can read about the importance of shifting the customer’s decision-making criteria from price (what they pay for your product) to impact (the increased revenue, decreased costs, or operational efficiencies they gain by using your product). But it’s another thing to take what you read and apply it to a real-life situation. Knowing what you should do and actually doing it are two very different things.

Here’s another thing to remember: modern sales methodologies like consultative selling aren’t intended to be ways for one account executive to reach out to more prospects or close more deals. To be as effective as possible, consultative selling needs to be a team effort. Every part of your go-to-market team — Sales, Sales Development, Business Development, Customer Success, and Revenue Management — should be involved. They should speak the same language so that passing a customer from Business Development to Sales or from Sales to Customer Success is completely seamless. And they should work together to ensure that the customer feels that they are being taken care of by every member of your team. The best sales books can’t teach that.

 At Winning by Design, we understand the value of books. After all, we have published a wide range of books highlighting sales methodologies, especially the SaaS sales method. But we know that when it comes to learning about sales, nothing beats hands-on training. Our company has the right mix of interactive training sessions, engaging instructors, cutting-edge research, and detailed blueprints for each step along the customer journey. These are skills that you won’t pick up even in the best modern sales book.

Consultative Approach

A sales methodology is the framework that a company uses to execute their sales process. Older methodologies, such as solution selling, were all about closing the deal. A customer would come to a sales team already aware of the problem they were having and the probable solution. The sales team’s only job was to assist the customer with selecting the right product. Because this methodology was based on the traditional sales funnel, getting the customer to sign on the dotted line was the primary goal. If the customer was satisfied with the solution, they might come back the next time they had a problem.

Sales methodologies have gotten more sophisticated since then. The consultative approach is about establishing a long-term relationship with a customer. The consultative selling process starts when the customer first reaches out about a problem they are having. Sales reps take the time to research a company and figure out their pain points. By the time they sit down with the customer, they already know as much as they can about their problems and the potential solutions. The questions they ask establish them as experts on the topic. The customer treats them as advisors who can help them navigate the decision-making process.

There are many examples of consultative selling. SPIN selling, which focuses on how to effectively ask good, thoughtful questions, is one type of consultative selling. In fact, the ability to ask the right kinds of questions is one of the hallmarks of a consultative sales presentation. You’ll probably start off with situational questions. This type of question is extremely useful in sales because they set the boundaries for the conversation. They allow the customer to understand what the conversation will accomplish. Then you move on to pain questions that pinpoint the challenges that your customer is facing. You wind up with impact questions that explore the effects of the pain. How has their company been impacted? What are the long-range consequences?

Consultative Selling

Why focus on consultative selling? Many companies that are using the recurring revenue model are starting to see their conversion rates decline because their sales teams are not well equipped when it comes to servicing the ongoing needs of their subscription customers. By focusing only on closing the deal, those companies are preventing their go-to-market teams from providing true impact for customers. That’s why consultative selling is so important. Because the focus is on building long-term relationships with customers, consultative selling takes into account the 93% of a customer’s lifetime value can come months or even years after the initial deal.

As we mentioned before, the consultative selling process starts when your sales team makes contact with a customer who has a problem they want to solve. Winning by Design’s consultative selling training programs are vital to business success because they help you and your team connect with customers from the beginning of the sales process. Our trainers come from the business world, so they don’t just give you examples of consultative selling. They tell you about real-life situations that they encountered. Because our courses are designed to be interactive, trainers get participants to discuss their own challenges. This is not something you can get from books on consultative selling.

Winning by Design doesn’t offer one-size-fits all training. Each of the courses available through our Revenue Academy, known for its top-rated training and coaching for go-to-market teams, offers role-based training for your entire team. We have teaching tracks geared toward Account Executives, Sales Development Representatives, Customer Success Managers, and Sales Managers. And there are also courses for frontline managers, as well as your team members who aspire to move up in the ranks. We offer open courses that are perfect for individuals or small groups from your team, along with private classes with customized curriculums that are great for a whole department. We also have coaching that ties everything together.

Consultative Selling Questions

When it comes to consultative selling, questions you ask are perhaps the most important part of the process. There are two fundamental types of questions that you can use: closed and open. Closed-ended questions provide context and help you get to the point faster. They generally have a very narrow range of possible responses, sometimes just yes or no. An example would be: “Have you encountered this issue with your HR software before?” Open-ended questions get the customer talking. They’re more likely to share what’s really going on inside their company. Open-ended questions help you understand the pain the customer is experiencing. Examples of open-ended questions for sales teams include: “How does your team currently access your CMS?” and “What’s the best part of your video conferencing system?”

Most b2b sales questions are either closed ended or open ended for a reason. Situational questions — the ones you use to set the parameters of the discussion — are generally closed ended. That’s because you probably already know the answer but want the customer to understand what you’ll be talking about. Pain questions are more open ended because you want the customer to explain the challenges they are encountering. Impact questions are also open ended because you want to understand how the problem is affecting their company. A few examples of high impact questions would be: “What are the long-range consequences of choosing that particular software?” and “How did disbanding that department affect employee morale?” Remember that there are two types of impact: rational and emotional. Rational impact is most often measurable in dollars and cents. Emotional impact is how the customer feels. People tend to make emotional decisions first, then back them up with facts and figures. That means emotional impact can be incredibly important.

Before compiling a list of questions to ask customers when selling a product, start off by researching your customer’s company. If your sales team has already had a conversation with someone at the customer’s company, review the meeting notes to find out what was discussed. If possible, talk directly with the salesperson who handled that call. By the time you have your first meeting, you’ll be able to ask engaging sales questions about their company.  

 It’s a good idea to practice sales pitch questions and answers with your account executives. Ask more experienced members of your sales team to ask 10 questions that they know get a good response from customers. Have them explain the purpose of each question for your newer team members. A great way to do this is through Winning by Design’s highly regarded training courses, which include examples of all the types of questions your team can ask during consultative selling. Interactive role-playing sessions help them to effectively connect with prospects, have more impactful conversations, and increase their ability to get a commitment from the customer.

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