Why Buyers Buy

The buying decision and the business case.

 Ray Collis

How To Influence The Buyer’s Choices

How To Influence The Buyer’s Choices

Your customer will weigh up the alternatives and select the the best price-value mix, right? Well, perhaps not always.
Research suggests that there is less rational-analytical dimension to the choice-making process. More importantly it shows how the seller can use this to sway the buyer’s decision.

 Ray Collis

Are You Only The Tip Of The Iceberg?

Are You Only The Tip Of The Iceberg?

When it comes to the customer’s costs, your price may only be the tip of the iceberg. That is important if you are selling a quality solution and want to avoid being hammered on price. By making your customer aware of The Iceberg Principle you can move the conversation off price and onto value.

 John O' Gorman

Sellers: How To Calculate Your Value? – The Value Equation

Sellers: How To Calculate Your Value? – The Value Equation

Communicating your value to today’s hard-nosed buyers can be a real challenge. You know that your marketing literature won’t do it. You know that your sales pitches and proposals must. Price Versus Value Many buyers have an almost single-minded obsession with price. That makes moving the conversation off price and onto value the seller’s priority. But […]

 Ray Collis

9 New Ways To Nudge Your Customer To Buy

9 New Ways To Nudge Your Customer To Buy

More information is simply not enough to get the buyer to across the line – we all know that. If it was then we would write longer proposals and provide more detailed product sheets. In this insight we will use the latest buyer psychology to examine how to nudge the buyer towards a decision.

 Ray Collis

Understanding Buyer Psychology

Understanding Buyer Psychology

Buying decisions are generally more complex than they may at first appear. We look behind the buyer’s stated rationale for the decision and to uncover the psychology that is often hidden.

 Ray Collis

Helping Your Customers To Justify Their Decisions

Helping Your Customers To Justify Their Decisions

Sellers must make sure that the buyer is in a position to justify the decision. Otherwise the risk of a stalled deal increases greatly. This is particularly important when decisions are driven by instinct or emotion.

 Ray Collis

What Can Scientists Tell Us About How Decisions Are Really Made?

What Can Scientists Tell Us About How Decisions Are Really Made?

Today we have a better understanding of how people make decisions. That is thanks to a emerging science of human decision making. Influence and persuasion once an art is now a science.

 Ray Collis

Is There Pressure On Your Buyer’s Numbers?

Is There Pressure On Your Buyer’s Numbers?

‘What is the pressure on your buyer’s numbers?’ As a salesperson that is an important question for you to ask.

 Ray Collis

Where Have All The Savings Gone? Buyer Leakages As Sales Opportunities

Where Have All The Savings Gone?  Buyer Leakages As Sales Opportunities

Procurement is under pressure to continually cut costs. However a high level of leakage makes delivering fully on promised savings a challenge. That presents the seller with a number of opportunities.

 Ray Collis

Selling To Busy Buyers: What’s Your Decision Simplification Strategy?

Selling To Busy Buyers:  What’s Your Decision Simplification Strategy?

Research into the science of decision making tells us that customers often simplify the basis on which buying decision are made. It is important for the seller to understand the buyer’s decision simplification strategy and to tailor their proposition accordingly.

 John O' Gorman

Is Relationship Selling Under Attack?

Is Relationship Selling Under Attack?

Relationships are an essential ingredient of successful selling. But will your relationship survive a change in the customers strategy, increasing budgetary pressures or the involvement of procurement? In this insight we examine the challenges to relationship selling and how they can be met.

 John O' Gorman

The Cost-Saver Menu: 11 Ways To Help Your Buyer Save

The Cost-Saver Menu:  11 Ways To Help Your Buyer Save

Imagine if you could give the buyer a menu of ways to save money, other than cutting your margins. This insight shows you how.

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