Acknowledgments -- What is customer-centric selling? -- Opinions--the fuel that drives corporations -- Success without sales-ready messaging -- Core concepts of customercentric selling -- Defining the sales process -- Integrating the sales and marketing processes -- Features versus customer usage -- Creating sales-ready messaging -- Marketing's role in demand creation -- Business development : the hardest part of a salesperson's job -- Developing buyer vision through sales-ready messaging -- Qualifying buyers -- Negotiating and managing a sequence of events -- Negotiation : the final hurdle -- Proactively managing sales pipelines and funnels -- Assessing and developing salespeople -- Driving revenue via channels -- From the classroom to the boardroom.

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