CITATION

Page, Rick. Hope Is Not a Strategy: The 6 Keys to Winning the Complex Sale. McGraw-Hill, 2003.

Hope Is Not a Strategy: The 6 Keys to Winning the Complex Sale

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Published:  April 2003

eISBN: 9780071505123 0071505121 | ISBN: 9780071418713
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Section 1: The Challenge—The Complex Sale
  • Chapter 1 Out of Control
  • Chapter 2 What Makes Today’s Complex Sale Complex?
  • Chapter 3 The Canyon and the Crucible—The Competitive Evaluation
  • Chapter 4 Talent and Team Selling: Tellers, Sellers, Hunters, Farmers, Business Developers, Partners, and the Industry-Networked Consultant
  • Chapter 5 The Arsenal of Competitive Advantage
  • Section 2: The Solution—R.A.D.A.R.
  • Chapter 6 R.A.D.A.R.—Simplifying the Complex Sale
  • Chapter 7 Key 1—Link Solutions to Pain (or Gain)
  • Chapter 8 Key 2—Qualify the Prospect
  • Chapter 9 Key 3—Build Competitive Preference
  • Chapter 10 Key 4—Determine the Decision-Making Process
  • Chapter 11 Key 5—Sell to Power
  • Chapter 12 Key 6—Communicate the Strategic Plan
  • Section 3: Strategies for Execution
  • Chapter 13 Sixteen Opportunity-Level Sales Strategies
  • Chapter 14 Changing Issues and Time-Based Sales Tactics
  • Chapter 15 Ten Individual-Level Strategies
  • Chapter 16 Selling at “C-Level”—Calling on Chief Executives and Political Navigation
  • Section 4: Winning Before the Battle—Account Management
  • Chapter 17 From Opportunity Management to Account Management
  • The Complex Sale, Inc.
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index