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Customer Centric Selling

by Michael T. Bosworth and John R. Holland

McGraw-Hill, 2004

Category: Sales & Marketing

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Customer Centric Selling

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In this summary you will learn

  • How and why to build your sales effort around the customer instead of the product
  • How marketing can support customer-centric sales

Why you should read Customer Centric Selling

This is an interesting, useful guide to selling a non-traditional way. Many companies, especially in high-technology industries, build their sales effort around early adopters. But early adopters are a minority of the market and their needs and preferences are distinct from those of the mainstream. To adjust their sales effort to the mainstream majority of the market, companies must listen to their audience. Instead of building sales messages around products, they need to build their sales communications and their sales process around customer needs and preferences. Customer-centric selling begins in the earliest stages of marketing and proceeds through the final sale. Authors Michael T. Bosworth and John R. Holland clearly set forth the nature of customer-centric selling and provide a comprehensive guide. getAbstract.com recommends this worthwhile addition to any salesperson’s bookshelf.

About the Authors

Michael T. Bosworth, the author of Solution Selling, and John R. Holland are co-founders of CustomerCentric System LLC.

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