1st Edition

The Sales Multiplier Formula Simple Strategies to Multiply Your Sales by 4.68X

By Shawn Casemore Copyright 2024
192 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Productivity Press

192 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Productivity Press

192 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Productivity Press

Why do some companies close deals worth three times more than their competitors? They're not working harder. They're not making more calls. They've discovered something different. Companies like Northwestern Mutual Life, Nokia, and Zapier don't treat sales as a department function. They treat it as an organizational process that everyone supports. Sale values double, triple, or sometimes... Read more

Foreword

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Introduction

Part 1: Selling is an Inside Job

 

Chapter 1: How Your Customers Buy Has Changed

·         The Biggest Assumption in Selling

·         Today’s Customers: Fickle, Fidgety and Frugal

·         Dealing with Unrealistic Customer Expectations

·         Why Selling Less Equates to Selling More

 

Chapter 2: Your Secret Ingredient to Multiply Sales

·         Customer Needs Over Company Needs

·         Winning the Race to Capture New Customers

·         Customer Intelligence to Multiply Sales

·         Turning Intelligence into Useful Outcomes

 

Chapter 3: Why Your Sales Are Stagnant

·         Finding Time to Develop New Selling Opportunities

·         The Sales Time Paradox

·         Increasing Direct Selling Time

·         Managing Accounts is Not Selling

·         Obsess Over These (or You’ll Lose Sales)

 

Chapter 4: Selling Today is a Team Sport

·         Team-Based Selling

·         Overcoming the Sales-Centric Bias

·         Achieving Your Sales Multiplier Potential

·         Your First Step Towards Team-Based Selling

 

Part 2: Your 4.68X Selling Opportunity

 

Chapter 5: The Initial Sale is Small Potatoes

·         Selling Opportunities (That You’re Likely Missing!)

·         Closing Should Be a Team Sport

·         Trust Can’t Be Transferred

·         Transitioning from Initial Sale to New Opportunity

 

Chapter 6: Good: Every Good Sale Deserves an Upsell

·         The Good, Better, Best Approach to Selling

·         Every Sale You Make Deserves an Upsell

·         Five Upsell Opportunities for Every Customer

·         Your Upsell Follow Up System in Action

 

Chapter 7: Better: Introduce Creative Cross-Selling

·         Increase Total Customer Sale Value

·         Why You Don’t Close More Cross-Sells

·         How a Strong Upsell Secures A Cross-Sell

·         Selecting the Best Time to Present Your Cross-Sell

·         The Cross-Sell Value Equation

 

Chapter 8: Best: Generating Unstoppable Referrals

·         Master This and Explode Your Sales to New Levels

·         You Are Missing Referral Opportunities (Here’s Why)

·         Your Sales Multiplier Referral Strategy and Toolkit

·         When it Comes to Referrals, Less Isn’t More

 

Part 3: Building Momentum with Your Sales Multiplier Formula

 

Chapter 9: The Foundation: Build A Sales Centric Culture

·         How to Build a Team to Support Multiplying Your Sales

·         Your Sales Centric Culture Begins with Leadership

·         Embrace Your Champions (they are the key to your success)

·         Steps to Introduce Your Sales-Centric Culture

·         Influencing a Sales-Centric Culture (when you have no authority)

·         Barriers to Introducing a Sales-Centric Culture

 

Chapter 10: Foundation: Design Your Sales Multiplier Formula

·         Set Your GPS: Assess Your Positioning and Offers

·         Your Forensic Sales Audit

·         Introduce a Machine for Unstoppable SalesTM

·         Build a Sales Team That is Unstoppable

 

Chapter 11: Testing: Implement Your New Sales Multiplier Formula

·         Introduce Your Sales Multiplier Formula

·         Introduce Feedback Loops to Gauge Progress

·         Phasing in Your Sales Multiplier Formula

·         Slow This Down to Speed Up Your Sales

 

Chapter 12: Winning the Race for New Customers

·         Evolution of Tomorrow’s Customer

·         Use Your SMF to Attract Even More Customers

·         Technology is Changing the Sales Game (Quickly!)

·         Sales Multiplier Formula 2.0

·         Staying Focused Over the Long-Term

 

References

Biography

Shawn Casemore is a consultant, speaker, and advisor. He is the Owner and Founder of Casemore and Co Inc., a global consulting firm that has attracted clients such as Bosch, NGK, Tim Hortons, Pepsi Co, Kids Help Phone and Sick Kids, and over 200 other leading organizations. In addition, he's served on several boards, including the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers, Canadian Association of Family-Owned Enterprises, and Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium. His speaking typically includes over two dozen keynotes each year at major conferences, and he's lectured at institutions such as the University of Waterloo and Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning. Shawn's publishing includes hundreds of articles in print and online for publications such as Forbes, Fast Company, Chief Executive, Industry Week, PLANT Magazine, and The Globe and Mail. He's also written four commercially published books, including his most recent, The Unstoppable Sales Team (Taylor and Francis, 2023).