🤩 Todays SPIN® Behaviour Challenge:

Your Sales Process is Stalling Because Your Reps are Annoying your prospects.

In Enterprise IT, “No Decision” is your biggest competitor. Why? Because 70-80% of sales meetings are boring feature-dumps (or “feature pukes 🤮 ” – an american sales director I met once – coined it) that fail to create urgency.

If your reps aren’t using SPIN®, they are likely uncovering Implied Needs (business challenges) but failing to convert them into Explicit Needs. An Explicit Need is the intersection of Business Value and the Emotional Experience the customer is dreaming of.

The SPIN® Shift: Stop Pitching Features. 

Start Pitching the Dream at the right time.

  • Stop Pitching at the First Challenge: When a prospect says, “Our legacy system is struggling,” most reps jump to a demo. Stop. That is just an Implied Need. It’s a challenge, not a mandate to act.
  • Listen for the “Hidden Factory”: Dig into the friction. Who is working weekends? Who is taking the heat for failures? Listen for the stress, the fatigue, and the fear of stagnation.
  • The “I” (Implication Question): “If the system continues to struggle, what is the ripple effect on your upcoming product launch? What happens to your team’s reputation if you’re forced into emergency troubleshooting instead of innovation?”
  • The Pivot to the “Explicit Need” (Need-Payoff): This is where you kill the stall. Train your team to listen for the Value and Emotions the customer is dreaming of: The Business ROI: “What would 20% more throughput mean for your bottom line?”. The Emotional Peace of Mind: “How would it feel for your team to stop ‘firefighting’ and finally start ‘building’ again?”
  • The Reality Check (The Cost of Inaction): “What are the consequences for the business — and for you personally — if we sit here a year from now and these challenges remain unaddressed?”

The Hard Truth:

Stalled deals happen when reps sell software instead of solving business-critical challenges. Stop letting them be an expensive distraction. Start training them to listen for the cost and the emotions of being blind. Value = (Business ROI + Emotional Peace of Mind) – Costs

Pitch to the dream they just described to you. The deal only moves when the customer voices the Explicit Need to get their sight back. If they aren’t dreaming out loud about the future, your sales process will stay stalled.

Change Behaviour. Change Results.™

Need inspiration — text “30 min” on my mobile +4526700356

All the best,

Anders 🤩

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