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Jolt Effect: How High Performers Overcome Customer Indecision

The Jolt Effect: How High Performers Overcome Customer Indecision

By Matthew Dixon and Ted McKenna

"Matthew Dixon, coauthor of The Challenger Sale, offers a new approach to overcoming customer indecision and closing more sales. He and coauthor Ted McKenna apply research to the problem of customer indecision, and offer a new approach that turns the conventional wisdom on its head. Drawing on a new study of more than two and a half million sales conversations from across industry, they reveal that only by addressing the customer's fear of failure can a salesperson get indecisive buyers to go from verbally committing to actually making the purchase"--.

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Publisher: Portfolio
Publish Date: 09/20/2022
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780593538104
ISBN-10: 0593538102
Language: English

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From the bestselling co-author of The Challenger Sale, a paradigm-shattering approach to overcoming customer indecision and closing more sales In sales, the worst thing you can hear from a customer isn't "no." It's "I need to think about it." When this happens, deeply entrenched business advice says to double down on your efforts to sell a buyer on all the ways they might win by choosing you and your business. But this approach backfires dramatically. Why? Because it completely gets wrong the primary driver behind purchasing decision-making: once purchase intent is established, customers no longer care about succeeding. What they really care about is not failing.

For years, sales expert Matthew Dixon has been busting longstanding business myths. Now in The JOLT Effect, he and co-author Ted McKenna turn their trademark analysis and latest research to the vital and growing problem of customer indecision--and offer a shocking new approach that turns conventional wisdom on its head. Drawing on a brand-new, first-of-its-kind study of more than two and a half million sales conversations from across industry, they reveal the surprising truth that high-performing sales reps grasp and their average-performing peers don't: only by addressing the customer's fear of failure can you get indecisive buyers to go from verbally committing to actually pulling the trigger. Packed with robust data, counterintuitive insights, and practical guidance, The JOLT Effect is the playbook for any salesperson or sales leader who wants to close the gap between customer intent and action--and close more sales.

About the Authors

Matthew Dixon is a managing director and Brent Adamson is a senior director with Corporate Executive Board's Sales Executive Council in Washington, D.

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Matthew Dixon is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of three of the most important business books of the past decade: The Challenger Sale , The Effortless Experience and The Challenger Customer.

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