Understanding Sales, Creating Opportunities - Volume I

From Understanding People to Purposeful Market Development

von Stefan Pleyer

438 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Good sales does not begin with the right argument. It begins with the right understanding.In modern B2B sales, decisions are rarely made by one person alone. Different roles, responsibilities, personal motivations, and organizational interests shape the path toward a decision. A convincing product or service is therefore only part of what makes sales successful.Understanding Sales, Creating Opportunities - Volume I explores how sales professionals can better understand the people, organizations, and markets behind complex business decisions.The book begins with the client and the buying center. It examines how different people evaluate risk, value, responsibility, and change-and why the same solution can mean something very different to a user, a procurement professional, a functional decision-maker, or senior management.From there, the focus turns to the sales professional.Exceptional sales performance depends on more than techniques, scripts, or closing methods. Perceptiveness, empathy, relationship intelligence, self-regulation, clarity in communication, judgment, patience, entrepreneurial thinking, and the ability to learn all influence whether clients experience a sales professional as relevant, reliable, and trustworthy.The book then broadens the perspective to the market itself.How do you identify the right prospects?How do you recognize where genuine opportunities can emerge?What role do market knowledge, research, visibility, referrals, networks, multipliers, partnerships, and prioritization play?Rather than treating prospecting as a question of activity alone, this volume shows how deliberate market development can help sales professionals focus their time and attention where meaningful conversations are most likely to develop.Practical tools at the end of the book help readers reflect on their own sales style, understand client decision structures, prepare conversations more effectively, organize their sales landscape, work with multipliers, and learn systematically from opportunities, successes, and losses.Drawing on more than thirty years of experience in B2B sales, Stefan Pleyer presents a long-term, human-centered approach to professional selling.This is not a book about manipulation, pressure, or quick closing techniques.It is a book about understanding people, supporting sound decisions, building trust, and creating client relationships that can remain valuable over many years.For sales professionals, sales leaders, business executives, consultants, and anyone who wants to understand modern B2B sales more deeply-and develop opportunities with greater clarity, responsibility, and long-term perspective.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798176417142
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published