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Decoding Sales

Episode 28: Dealing with the competition

Decoding Sales

Peter & Alex

Sales, Business, Software Sales, Virtual Selling, Entrepreneurship, Enterprise Sales

5.020 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Send a text Competition is a fact of life and business; in this episode, learn how to sell and win against your competitors. * How to understand what the competition is saying about your weaknesses - and turn it to your favor * Why understanding technology trends is crucial to winning deals against competitors * How to credibly undermine the competition - without seeming petty * Why and when it's OK to lose some deals * How to stay authentic when you're trying to beat the other guys This ep...

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0:00.0

Welcome to Decoding Sales, a podcast where an engineer that's me Alex and a salesperson that's me Peter talk about the art and

0:16.8

science of sales as it relates to life and business in this episode we are going

0:21.2

to talk about the competition we like to talk a lot about

0:24.4

authentic selling and building relationships but how do you do that when there's

0:27.6

somebody else wooing the person you are going after? How do you position yourselves against them and build a

0:33.4

relationship without coming off as aggressive or obnoxious while still navigating

0:38.1

that dynamic? Peter has led a lot of deals where there is competition. so he's going to unbox and

0:44.3

demystify for us how to maintain an authentic sales process in the face of

0:48.2

competition how to navigate the competition and ultimately how to get that deal.

0:53.0

So if you're a founder facing competitive bidding situations or a

0:58.0

salesperson who wants to get some more insight into how to handle competition,

1:02.0

this episode is for you. We're going to dive deep into

1:05.0

Peter's experiences dealing with competition real quick, but before we do that we

1:09.1

want to give a special shout out and thank you to our sponsors at Sales Room. Sales Room is a platform

1:16.2

designed from the ground up to support selling. It's the only video conferencing solution

1:22.3

that helps sales people break through.

1:24.8

Peter has been exploring it at Twin Gate.

1:27.0

He's a big fan and we are really excited for their beta launch.

1:32.0

So please go to their website salesroom. for their

1:33.3

website, salesroom.com and sign up to be a beta user.

1:37.3

Well, Peter, let's dive into this episode.

1:39.2

I am so excited to hear about competition

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