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It’s no more a Push or Pull, it’s a slide door!

Priya Sachdev is the Sales Coach & owner at Sprouting Shoots. As a sales practitioner, she partners with organizations to review, refine, and execute their sales strategy, organization, methodology, and analytics. She also works with sales leaders to define plans that accelerate revenue growth to achieve success and take their growth to the next level.

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It’s no more a Push or Pull, it’s a slide door!

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  1. It’s no more a Push or Pull, it’s a slide door! Have you ever struggled with this? I can tell you I have with all the conditioning of using Push and Pull doors, I have assumed that how doors work. It’s either a Push and if that doesn’t work it’s a Pull. So if the door still doesn’t open… Pull harder or Push harder!! But what about slides? Slide doors do exist, right? though they are just not the first thought about how the door will open. This simple analogy applies to sales and maybe to life too! In sales, we started with Push sales. As a seller I will push my product to you and prove that it’s the best fit for your needs. We then moved to Pull. More consultative as a seller, I will in my engagement with you pull you to my product / service and showcase how my value proposition fits with what you need.

  2. Yes, customer engagement has changed once again. Each time this change is driven by the customer preferences. So for sure we as sales people are playing catch up on this one. It’s getting harder to start conversations with prospects and I wonder if it’s the conditioning of the Push and Pull that is really our biggest roadblock. In fact, when we don’t succeed, we Pull and Push harder! let’s spam on LinkedIn or send in mails or use automation to blast a series of 10 emails over 20 days! The hinges of this door have changed and the swing has been replaced by the slide. Slide into the prospect / customer’s consciousness by engaging with them. Know them, understand them, engage with them… then slide in as you get permission to have more conversations. I know the first reaction to the above strategy is –I don’t have time to do this. Good point right… I am so busy banging doors, playing on the game of probability that i don’t have time to consciously create and change my strategy! Yes slide in takes time and a different kind of effort. You cannot push in with your shoulder and let the door bang as you exit. Both points require conscious effort. However, engagement creates mind share. This in turn could lead to larger ticket sizes and longer term relationships. I urge you to try the Slide in Sales approach. Gain Mindshare before you ask for Wallet share! I can vouch for this strategy, it works! For more detailed knowledge about how to grow sales, listen to our Sales Coaching Expert, Priya Sachdev, podcast on Spotify. https://open.spotify.com/show/4l2aok6BjD0MrIKvtnpCps

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