Improving Sales Force Proficiency in Assessing Customer Needs

Reed Business Information’s implementation of a “Letter of Understanding” tool in the sales organization.

Jim Hynes

Like many firms over the past two decades, Reed Business Information (RBI) found its sales organization straining to keep pace in a changing selling environment. As its services offerings grew more complex, and its customers more demanding, RBI made “consultative selling” proficiency a strategic initiative for the sales organization. RBI’s adoption of several selling tools helped ensure their consultative selling efforts yielded tangible outcomes. In this paper, we review(...)

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