Landing

‘The tools covered in Smarter Selling will help any sales person who is wanting to make the shift from a traditional to a consultative approach and ultimately towards becoming a trusted advisor.’

Charles H. Green

The Trusted Advisor

‘It’s probably the ‘how’ contained in Smarter Selling that makes the deepest impression.

Any book can theorize on the ‘what’, but here we see the authors going one better to explain steps that bring it all together, using contemporary examples from around the world.’

Nic Read

Selling to the C-Suite

‘Success in the consultative sale is all about creating customer value from every meeting, but few salespeople know how to do this.
Smarter Selling has many useful and practical ideas to help salespeople improve their value-creating capabilities.’

Neil Rackham

Spin Selling

‘Dugdale and Lambert have written a thoughtful, practical book that everyone learning how to sell complex services should read and which experienced sellers should read as a refresher and enhancer of their skills.’

Ford Harding

Rain Making

engage universe provides resources to help implement the IoweU approaches outlined in the book Smarter Selling published by Financial Times Prentice Hall.

Now in its second edition, this international best-selling book is available in five languages, including Chinese and Russian.

Smarter Selling introduces the mindset, skills, and tools needed to build trusted business relationships with customers, clients, colleagues, stakeholders and suppliers.

Focusing on the interaction between people that drives decisions, Smarter Selling goes beyond traditional management books, and equips you with practical tools that you can apply to enhance your business relationships.

Specifically Smarter Selling covers how to:

evaluate the strength of your business relationships, and how to improve them
better understand people’s behavior and motivations
flex your behavior to drive better outcomes
secure meetings and conversations with busy and difficult to access people
frame conversations to encourage interest and engagement
ask questions flexibly to build understanding and generate insights for all involved
share experiences appropriately and with impact to drive commitment

Essential reading for anyone who wants to develop stronger business relationships, Smarter Selling approaches have been implemented by leading organizations across industries and across the world.

The digest below provides a good summary of the book’s key concepts.