Solution Selling: Neil Rackham's SPIN Selling

Solution selling is all about finding out what the problem is, and offering a solution. And this is at the heart of Neil Rackham’s approach to sales: SPIN Selling. SPIN is an acronym that will guide you through the diagnosis.
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Sales and Selling Skills
This video is part of course module 8.4.4
Program 8: Managing Customers and Clients
Course 4: Sales / Selling Skills
Section 4: Masters of Selling
Other videos in this section include:
Dale Carnegie: How to Win Friends and Sell to Them https://youtu.be/U9FWz2yTuUY
Mary Kay Ash: The Mary Kay Way of Selling https://youtu.be/ToBd_dGXAV4
The Miller Heiman Strategic Selling Methodology https://youtu.be/d3eACAlFRps
Daniel Pink: To Sell is Human https://youtu.be/uWAcm6sknTg
LESSON NOTES
SPIN Selling (https://geni.us/Ir5xu) is a best-selling book by Neil Rackham. It describes one of the most widely known sales methodologies, which is also promoted worldwide to companies of all sizes, by Rackham’s company, Huthwaite International.
Solution Selling
Selling Environment vs Buying Environment
SPIN Selling process has a number of stages:
1. Preliminaries: Creating rapport and trust
2. Investigating: Learning about the buyer’s needs
3. Demonstrating Capability: Showing how your product’s or service’s capabilities meet your customer’s needs
4. Obtaining Commitment: Creating the agreement to buy and closing the sale
SPIN is an acronym for the four types of questions that you will ask, in sequence:
1. Situation
2. Problem
3. Implication
4. Need Payoff
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There are many books that introduce sales and selling. These are the ones I have, and can recommend:
To Sell Is Human https://geni.us/L2EQmt
The Only Sales Guide You'll Ever Need https://geni.us/AEAVD5
The New Strategic Selling https://geni.us/Zt2Z9n3
SPIN Selling https://geni.us/Ir5xu
The Psychology of Selling https://geni.us/AjR8AA
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CHAPTER MARKERS
00:00 - Neil Rackham’s SPIN Selling
00:28 - SPIN Selling by Neil Rackham
00:54 - Solution Selling
02:17 - Selling Environment vs Buying Environment
03:06 - How to create a buying environment
03:25 - What is the SPIN Selling Framework?
03:47 - 4-step Sales call
04:30 - The definition of SPIN Selling
05:22 - S: Situation
05:51 - P: Problem
06:27 - I: Implications
07:04 - N: Need Payoff
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