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The Challenger Customer

Selling to the Hidden Influencer Who Can Multiply Your Results

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The Challenger Customer

By: Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson, Pat Spenner, Nick Toman
Narrated by: Steve Kramer
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From the authors of the internationally-bestselling business classic The Challenger Sale

'A handbook of practices that will help you get into your customers' heads, deliver good value, and win the sale' Daniel H. Pink, author of To Sell is Human and Drive

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In The Challenger Sale, Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson overturned decades of conventional wisdom with a bold new approach to sales. Now they reveal something even more surprising: the highest-performing sales teams don't focus on friendly, attentive customers. Instead, they target challenger customers.

Challenger customers are sceptical, less interested in meeting and ultimately indifferent as to who wins the deal. But they also have the credibility, persuasive skill and will to challenge the status quo that will get a deal to the finish line far more often than customers who are easier to connect with.

Based on new research from thousands of B2B marketers, sellers and buyers around the world, The Challenger Customer shows you how to find these 'mobilizers' and equip them with the tools to effectively challenge their own organizations on your behalf. This ground-breaking book is the blueprint you need to make the sale again and again.

Consumer Behaviour & Market Research Customer Service Economics Marketing & Sales Sales & Selling Marketing Management

Critic Reviews

A handbook of practices that will help you get into your customers' heads, deliver good value and win the sale
I love it. This book will set the tone for years of work to come. The CEB team has just added the HOW to the WHAT that we have all been searching for since we launched into the Challenger journey
An essential new way to think about the sale
Lays out a blueprint for how sales and marketing departments must rethink their approach to winning more business. What worked in the past is clearly having diminishing returns today and will likely lead to failure in the future
'Provides evidence-based insights and practical guidance for solving one of today's most pressing commercial challenges: complex decision making within customer organizations. It clearly shows what distinguishes the best sellers and marketing organizations from the rest
All stars
Most relevant
Goes into way too much detail around digital marketing/content creation etc. It's very interesting but it felt more like a text book on stakeholder engagement as opposed to actual selling. Not what i was expecting but i listened with some interest.

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