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Dirty Little Secrets: Why Buyers Can't Buy and Sellers Can't Sell and What You Can Do about It
 
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Dirty Little Secrets: Why Buyers Can't Buy and Sellers Can't Sell and What You Can Do about It [Paperback]

Sharon Drew Morgen , Jill Konrath
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What is stopping you from closing all of the sales you deserve to close? Hint: it's not you, not your solution, and not the buyer. It's the sales model itself. Now, in this revolutionary book written by the visionary and NYTimes Business Bestseller Selling with Integrity, go behind-the-scenes with the buyer and learn all of the details that go on off-line prior to a purchase. And learn the 12 'dirty little secrets' that are part of the sales model that actually prevents buyers from buying. Dirty Little Secrets: why buyers can't buy and sellers can't sell and what to do about it breaks down the entire buying decision process, and offers a complete understanding of how buyers buy - the steps they go through, the systems issues they must manage internally, the types of decisions they must make. And learn how the sales model manages merely the last action that buyers take before they adopt a solution. Moving beyond her 7 other highly acclaimed books on her revolutionary Buying Facilitation® model, her new book goes to the heart of the buying decision, with great examples and a complex case study to teach the model. Selling with Integrity reviews: "Finally, a sales paradigm which supports our spiritual values and lays the foundation for the shifts occurring in business today.” Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager "Morgen's Buying Facilitation® is light years ahead of the rest of the field.” Philip Kotler, author of Marketing Management Dirty Little Secrets reviews: “Because of this book, we’ll never be able to go back to the old way of selling. It teaches us how buying decisions are made - missing from the industry until now. This book is too big to push under the rug: It’s crystal clear and easy to understand, and necessary for any serious sales professional.” Jeff Blackwell, Founder SalesPractice.com “This book is a dead-on analysis of how buying decisions get made.” Anne Miller, author Metaphorically Selling “Sharon Drew has turned traditional sales thinking upside down and has provided a tactical roadmap for sellers to help buyers get the internal buy-in necessary to buy.” Michael Norton, Founder CanDoGo.com “Dirty Little Secrets takes us inside our buyer's decision-making process where we discover factors they need to address prior to buying - most of them having nothing to do with our solution.” Jill Konrath, author Selling to Big Companies “Revealing the secret to how people really buy has been untouched... until now! Dirty Little Secrets delivers powerful insights and practical thinking that transform not only selling but all forms of decision making.” Lee J. Colan, author Sticking to It “Having pioneered the new sales paradigm more than two decades ago, Sharon Drew is back with a very human, accessible and powerful approach.” Britton Manasco, Principal Manasco Marketing Partners “This is not a business-as-usual book, but a dramatic change in how we sell. Someday Buying Facilitation® will be a natural part of our sales process.” Reg Nordman, Managing Partner Rocket Builders “Dirty Little Secrets is a must read for all senior executives: Morgen explains why sales fails and provides deep insight into how customers decide.” Mark Dallmeir, CEO The ROBB Group Holdings “Sharon Drew’s Buying Facilitation® model is the only approach that manages the off-line decision making. We’ve used her process for 10 years and our revenues have grown consistently. Dirty Little Secrets should be on the desk of every CEO and sales professional.” Jack Hubbard, CEO St. Meyer & Hubbard. “Social entrepreneurs and progressives get uncomfortable about sales techniques and wary of ‘manipulating’ people. Dirty Little Secrets teaches how to serve customers with no persuasion or manipulation - how to do good, make money and keep integrity intact.” Gil Friend, CEO Natural Logic

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5.0 out of 5 stars An inspirational and well-written book!, Oct 19 2009
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This review is from: Dirty Little Secrets: Why Buyers Can't Buy and Sellers Can't Sell and What You Can Do about It (Paperback)
Sharon Drew has written an inspirational and well-written book and I can highly recommend this sophisticated guide ...it was an instant success for me. If you want to learn how decisions get made, how change happens, and how buyers buy - you must read this book!
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars A sales job - not instructive, Aug 9 2010
By leevashni - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Dirty Little Secrets: Why Buyers Can't Buy and Sellers Can't Sell and What You Can Do about It (Paperback)
It's too bad that books are written these days to sell people and companies rather than instruct.
This book fits in this category.
Here is what it's all about: Sellers don't recognize that for buyers to buy, a change must happen within the buying organization. That's all.
Sharon Drew takes up over 200 pages to repeat herself, over and over again, but offers no way to actually do what she is selling. Clearly, she wants you to spend money on her, nothing more, nothing less.
Equally important is that we've known for some time now that to unseat a competitor or to win a competitive battle - the norm today - buying organizations must make a change. Sharon Drew tell you that you will never know how to make the change but also tells you that you must be the catlyst - a big contradiction.
The one insight that might help you is the idea that as a seller you are "installing a business solution not selling a product" but again, nothing instructive about how to do that - no system, no methodology, nothing about the how to of it all. You'll have to, and you can, do it yourself if you have been selling.
It's really too bad that publishers publish such poor stuff.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars The Sale Behind the Sale, Dec 8 2009
By Steve R "Steve R" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Dirty Little Secrets: Why Buyers Can't Buy and Sellers Can't Sell and What You Can Do about It (Paperback)
Sharon Drew Morgen's book is a big step into a universe few salespeople ever knew existed ... the sale behind the sale ... what customers really do when they say, "We'll think it over and get back to you." If you've never heard that, then you (a) aren't actually a salesperson, or (b) you don't need this book. Sharon goes into great depth about the Internal Sale ... what goes on internally in an organization when Your Customer wants what you're offering, but must sell it internally in order to get a go-ahead. It's most revealing and talk extensively about the REAL process that goes on behind the scenes -- (1) "can we stretch our existing system a little further to cover the LATEST problem? (2) OK ... we can't ... what is our CURRENT vendor offering? (3) how do we present it to management ... the LAST time they weren't too happy with our request; how do we make it seem that the previous solution was 100% good, but (something we did or didn't anticipate) has overwhelmed it? It's a critical and informative analysis of why current sales methodology (SPIN, Solution Selling, etc.) still aren't cutting it, esp. in today's economic decline, and how to step into this critical but otherwise unseen world where sales live or die beyond our vision and our ability to influence.

In conventional sales process terminology ... it is a (very) elaborate Qualification process that examines ... via a creative dialogue with the customer/prospect ... just what the likelihood of getting a sale will be given existing solutions, internal politics, ability of the customer to field your product/solution ... even IF they buy it. It's very good reading ... esp. the second time.

However, Sharon's book has a significant shortcoming ... she fails to spend any significant time discussing ... how to raise customers/prospects interest at the onset. Her approach is essentially to construct an open, probing dialogue (dialogue goes beyond mere conversation) and use questioning techniques to unveil internal buying and political processes in order to influence them. But, her approach starts ... in the middle. There's no discussion of HOW you get to that initial point of raising the customer's/prospect's interest in your product or service ... so you can have that dialogue. She decries the conventional product-push/value prop approach saying that it marks the salesperson as aggressive and presumptuous and/or arrogant ("how would you know anything about our real needs", she would paraphrase the typical customer/prospect's reaction to the typical sales presentation). But she doesn't give us any guidance on how to get the sale started.

I value her book/concept (Facilitated Buying - her copyright) as the back-end, the real sales-engine, once the customer expresses interest in the product or service.

Steve R.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars She's so right! Important new contribution to the art of B2B sales, Sep 4 2011
By Astrid_Dom - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Dirty Little Secrets: Why Buyers Can't Buy and Sellers Can't Sell and What You Can Do about It (Paperback)
This author adds an important new dimension to the field of complex B2B sales!

To explain you what I mean, here is a short history of sales theories:

* Around 1990, authors like Neil Rackham helped us move from product-centered HARD-SELLING to PAIN-BASED SELLING, i.e. they learned us to search for and grow customer' problems, open the customers' eyes on a solution, etc. In other words, they learned us about 'consultative' B2B selling.

* Around 2005 authors like Marc Miller and Jill Konrath, add GAIN-BASED SELLING, i.e. they learned us to not only focus on pains, but to also discuss customers' strategic objectives, to always have a strong and relevant value proposition at hand, etc.

* In 2009 Mrs Morgen adds 'change management' (what she calls 'buying facilitation') and she is so right:
Pains and gains alone don't make compelling reasons to buy! Even if the customer is well aware of a problem and all its negative consequences, and even if he understands the vision of the presented solution and bought into it, then still:

-For every problem, there is a workaround
-The system (and every customer operates within a system) holds itself in place, prefers the ''status quo.
-NOTHING happens, until every component in the system understands what needs to be done to bring the whole system to a new, higher level (which also needs to be level of 'rest')

Hence, what is needed is: change management, with a focus on the buying (and buy-in) process.

In practice this means asking new types of questions, next to (and even before) the traditional problems exploring facts, problems, objectives, implications and solutions.

Why I gave this book 4 stars in stead of 5: For me, the book is at times too repetitive and I would have preferred it to be more to the point and with many more good, concrete examples.

I'm in B2B sales since 2005, and I like to read sales books and blogs. If you are the type who plans to read only one or 2 sales books in your life, don't choose this one. But if you are a professional B2B sales person, who constantly wants to improve his/herself and is hungry for the very best advice, read it, next to reading some of the classics.

I highly recommend:
- Tom Hopkins for all basic sales stuff (more targeted towards B2C sales though)
- Paul Cherry's "Questions that sell" to get a really good feeling about how exactly to formulate your questions.
- Neil Rackham's "SPIN selling" for learning the basics in B2B sales questioning techniques
- Jill Konrath's "Selling To Big companies" for golden practical advice on how to address new prospects.
- Marc Miller's "Selling Is Dead" for learning to adress gains not just pains, and for learning how to make a stunning Value Based Proposal. This book is a must-read if you sell a B2B product that is really innovative and new.
- And this one for learning to think in terms of systems and change management.
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