Sales Storytelling is on the rise, and it should be, because it’s the most compelling way to talk about anything that you wish to sell.
But as a sales person, a key question you need to ask yourself before telling sales stories is – Am I telling this story for a sprint or a marathon with my customer?
Sprint = Short run…
My last blog featured Knowledge Sharing story of Marty Davis from NASA. Now, you may wonder WHAT IS THE ROI of knowledge sharing ?
My answer is in another story from NASA…
After Marty Davis’s Story got published in the Ask Magazine, a supervisor from a different centre of NASA read it and took the article to Sue Mortil who had experienced…
On 6th Oct this year I wrote a blog titled Storytelling: If NASA can, you can which highlights how a credible organisation like NASA uses storytelling as a Knowledge Sharing tool. Soon after publishing the post, I shared it on LinkedIn. Within a few mins got a comment from a reader, ” So, what are the stories told at NASA for Knowledge …
My last blog was about the importance of point, purpose and audience in delivering a relevant story.
In this blog, I want to share, how to craft a story that conveys the point, is on purpose and relevant.
Let’s try to look at this through Matt’s eyes…
Who is Matt?
Matt works in a corporate organisation and is responsible for selling cloud…
Recently, I had the opportunity to work with a group of lawyers where in a short period of time we had to craft 6 different stories which conveyed a point.
Did we manage to craft the stories in the short period of time we had?
Yes, of course we did. The group came up with stories that moved the audiences so much…
It was on 4 Feb 2014, I was on my way to a client meeting and I received a sms – chk out Satya N’s letter to employees. I straight away looked online and found the newly appointed CEO of Microsoft’s letter to employees on his first day. This morning as I watched Satya’s interview on Why Microsoft Exists ? I was…
As I write this blog in another window of my computer I am writing a proposal for a company that wants to craft stories for positioning its Brand as an Employer of Choice. I have had several discussions with this client and everyone in the company is very keen to jump in to this project and for me Its a dream consulting…
My last post on Pharma Sales Storytelling concluded that Relationship and Features & Benefits Storytelling were 2 key areas of focus for product sales people. In this post I will dig deeper into Relationship Sales Storytelling.
Relationship is a meaningful word used loosely in a sales environment.
In 2009 I was working as a Director of Sales in Australia and one of …
Recently I gave a talk on Sales Storytelling at a leading Pharmaceutical Company. In preparation for this talk I researched on Pharma sales industry, spoke to a few pharma sales reps and doctors ( key client for pharma sales reps).
In this preparation, there are insights I discovered which I think can be of great use to the pharma sales industry and…
You are a salesperson and you are in a conversation with a potential client who is from the banking industry. Its time for you to tell a success story and this is what you say.
Your current situation reminds me of another banking client of ours in Singapore. A year ago we ran a successful customer service program with our client Mike…