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Nonconfrontation Selling... The One-on-One Revolution
Nonconfrontation Selling The One-on-One Revolution Author:John Downes NonConfrontation Selling is the opposite of what a sales prospect anticipates, and precisely what he desires. The automotive business serves as the perfect model for the reader to discover its various precepts and principles, which may be applied to any product or service...from the intial meet and greet through the delivery of the product or se... more »rvice. It began in 1979 when a sales manager at a California dealership presented a counteroffer to a prospect in very unusual fashion without reducing the selling price at any time during the transaction. The prospect liked it and purchased the product. Thousands of repetitions caused the same result. What occured never had been attempted before, because it went against the grain of the status quo, and 'experience' said it couldn't work. It did, though, and NonConfrontation Selling was born. Some of its ingredients include Bambi Meets Godzilla, FBI Interrogation School Questions, Carrots, Teeter Totters, Principle of Games, Command Phrases, Raygun Bullets, Matching Up, Degree Questions, Weasels, Rare, and the Twelve Commandments. Selling's nature implies a confrontation between the seller and prospect, since the objectives of each are at cross purposes to maintain a bargaining position. How NonConfrontation Selling resolves that reads like a psychological thriller.« less