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This Week's Column

Escaping the Land of No-Decision

The Land of No-Decision, you know the place: it's where some of your most promising deals grind to a halt. Craig James shares some tactics and strategies you can use to extricate yourself from this sales wasteland.

There are three points in the sales process where a deal is likely to slow down: after you've made your formal presentation, after you've presented your proposal, and when your contract has gone to Legal. Because the last of these is less a matter of "selling" your decision-maker and more a matter of getting the prospect's attorneys to get on with it, we're going to focus here on the first two situations, since they require us to use our skills to close our buyer.

Let's start with what strategies we can employ to try to prevent a deal from slowing to a crawl.

Establish dates for next steps - yours and theirs
You should, of course, be doing this at every point in a sales engagement, but it becomes even more critical after you've reached the presentation/proposal evaluation stage. Why? Because it's at this point that . . . (continued)
 

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