2 Speak to Situations, Not Dispositions
As if the challenge of defeating status quo bias by building a buying vision isn’t tough enough, there is some emerging pressure being put on salespeople to “microsegment” their messages for the different buying influences in the business-to-business (B2B) sales process.
Recently released research from the Corporate Executive Board says that an average of 5.4 buyers are involved in typical B2B decisions. Because of that, salespeople are commonly pressured to get familiar with the specific needs and characteristics of each individual buyer or influencer and be able to tailor their message to each one and his specific needs.
While this seems like a reasonable and responsible premise at first blush, ...
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