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“Far too often, salespeople lead their interactions with customers from a very seller/product-focused mindset, raving about the bells and whistles of their product features without thinking about their relevance to the customer.” To ensure this happens with your sales process, adopt a sales qualification framework like MEDDIC (explained below), which can help your team hone in on your ideal customer profile (ICP), focus on what matters in a deal cycle, and, most importantly, lead from a place of curiosity. That curiosity and structure can lead to progressively more thoughtful questions that show empathy and insight and help salespeople qualify and disqualify sales opportunities to move the right deals forward in a meaningful way.
“In delivering a product or solution meant to solve your customers' problems, you have to understand their problems first.” To ensure this happens with your sales process, adopt a sales qualification framework like MEDDIC (explained below), which can help your team hone in on your ideal customer profile (ICP), focus on what matters in a deal cycle, and, most importantly, lead from a place of curiosity. That curiosity and structure can lead to progressively more thoughtful questions that show empathy and insight and help salespeople qualify and disqualify sales opportunities to move the right deals forward in a meaningful way.
Discovery questions to reveal needs for inbound/outbound leads “What prompted you to reach out? (Inbound) (Identify pain)” Tell me about your current process for [challenge]. (Inbound/outbound) (Identify pain) How is that working/not working for you? Where are the most significant gaps within that? / Have you noticed any areas where things could be improved? If you made those improvements, how would those improvements impact your day-to-day/business?
Where does this fall on your current list of priorities? (Decision process) “You can tailor your messaging to use cases, how pain can be relieved, and how goals can be achieved.” The questions can also reveal just how important this initiative is for them.