​Inspired by a new, transformative era in human and business relations, this book provides a unique perspective on the business transformation that results from the collaboration between suppliers and their strategic customers. It is all about guiding organizational change and business transformation, starting with sales itself. Companies choosing this approach can make a significant and meaningful difference with strategic customers, moving beyond the competition. By challenging existing business assumptions and creating new perspectives on the marketplace, organizations can increase value across traditional company borders, making the (business) world a better place in the process. Both thought-provoking and practical, this management book integrates academic insights, real life examples and best practices of business transformation. It is a must-read for business leaders aiming to make a difference. "Integrating with your strategic customers beyond a transactional sales relationship is key for shaping new markets, developing your brand, and leveraging your strategic relationships. If sales and profitability with strategic accounts are to grow beyond the average, a change in mindset from seeing sales as an “outside” to an “inside” job is required to truly create a win-win relationship. Kotler/Dingena/Pfoertsch’s “Transformational Sales” provides hands-on insights and tools needed for companies who truly want to achieve this transformation." Marc Hantscher, CEO and President Asia-Pacific, BSH Home Appliances Pte. Ltd. Singapore "The more profoundly and systematically B2B companies familiarize themselves with and accommodate their customers’ functional, emotional and strategic needs, the more powerful they are on the market. Top brands are professionally and passionately tuned in to their customers. Sales, Project Management, Marketing, R&D, Production and Purchasing work in concert to drive customer success, always with an eye to the future. This book presents illustrative cases, highlighting how champions have scaled up their business." Achim Kuehn, CMO Herrenknecht AG, Schwanau, Germany

Transformational Sales Leadership: Sales Leader Perspectives offers viewpoints from 12 leaders across the global sales industry, all of which challenge conventional sales models and promote visionary ways of thinking about sales and leadership. The leaders who share their professional stories in the book are from organizations including SAP, Google, Nationwide US, and Royal Caribbean, as well as their own practices, and they represent a new breed of salespeople who are increasingly sought after by organizations which need to transform their practices. They run teams, drive analytics, and improve operational excellence, and their careers rise or fall on getting the right KPIs. Their stories address solutions to age-old sales problems, but they bring a new perspective to the sales function in the digital age. The book focuses on what sales leaders need in order to be innovative. Specifically, the book shows you how to: • Coach sales people through disruption; • Leverage the most valuable habits for success; and • Provide for meaning and purpose in the hyper-connected and volatile sales industry. If you are a sales professional looking to succeed in challenging scenarios, the journeys recounted in this book demonstrate how the landscape of sales has changed and how thinking about sales differently can help you transform your career.

Transactional to Transformational Marketing in Pharma: The Science of Why and the Art of How is a ground breaking book that explores the current state of the pharmaceutical industry's marketing practices and how they can be improved. Despite being instrumental in saving countless lives and improving the health of people worldwide for over a century, the modern pharmaceutical industry has suffered from a tarnished reputation due to unethical business practices and transactional marketing. In this timely and informative book, the author delves into the reasons behind pharma's fall from grace and shows how transactional marketing practices cannot build brand loyalty or reputation. Instead, the book highlights the importance of transformational marketing practices and ethical business behavior, which can lead to long-term success and customer loyalty. Using real-world examples and case studies, Transactional to Transformational Marketing presents a step-by-step approach to help pharma companies transform their marketing practices. From understanding the importance of customer-centricity to leveraging digital technologies, this book provides practical tips and strategies that can be implemented immediately. Transactional to Transformational Marketing in Pharma is a must-read for anyone interested in elevating the pharmaceutical industry's reputation and creating sustainable growth in the long term. If you are a marketer, business leader, or anyone interested in transforming the pharmaceutical industry's marketing practices, this book is for you.Contents: 1. Pharma’s Reputation on a Slide 2. Ethics in the Pharmaceutical Industry 3. Unethical Marketing Practices in Pharma 4. Transactional Marketing 5. Restoring Pharma’s Reputation 6. Transformational Marketing in Pharma 7. Transformational Marketing in Pharma: Two Case Studies 8. Transformational Marketing the Winner’s Checklist Two Case Studies

Learn how to develop the values proven to boost sales performance, to ensure customers choose you over the competition in today's crowded marketplace. For years, sales people have struggled with cliched views of how they sell, while at the same time customers have become more sophisticated and discerning, stopping off at different or unconventional places in the sales funnel. The result is that the technique of sales people controlling the sales conversation and learning how to influence the customer no longer works. Selling Transformed introduces the new world of selling, and addresses the reasons why sales people are so poorly perceived. Selling Transformed provides fresh, tangible ideas on how to develop better sales practices. Focusing as much on the customers as on the sellers, it explains key theories of selling effectively and introduces four proven strategies that are based on the values customers look for in sales people: authenticity, client-centricity, proactive creativity and being tactfully audacious. Explaining what customers look for in sales people, and advising on how to develop and deliver these values, this is a new type of sales manual guaranteed to improve sales performance.

This book uses stories and case studies from several industries to show how companies can rethink their customers, products and services, marketing, competition, and even their culture. The goal is a positive customer relationship that results in revenue growth, product innovation, and employee engagement.

Leaders... Start Your Sales Engines! Is your sales vehicle stalling, when it should be speeding across the finish line? Like an engine, your sales system was not designed to remain in the parking lot of lost opportunities. Instead, it should be driving transformational sales results and moving your sales vehicle to exciting new destinations. Unfortunately, most sales organizations lack the right sales system and are not prepared for the constant challenges that keep their sales vehicles parked. Negative perceptions, mediocre performance, poor support, and a lack of leadership round out the top issues that make acceleration difficult. Dynamic Sales COMBUSTION introduces business owners, sales leaders, sales professionals, and sales support teams to the Sales Impact System - SIS. The SIS allows you to push the pedal to the metal, create an environment that fosters high performance, and drive sales results to championship levels. The Sales Impact System - SIS provides you and your team with: • Strategies for an Unbreakable Mindset • Techniques to acquire Unparalleled Data • New ways to achieve Unstoppable Gears • The ability to develop Unmatched Structure

Beyond the Numbers - Elevating sales negotiation from transactional to transformational is an essential guide to sales negotiation where you transform yourself merely from a sales person to a long term business associates . This insightful tome delves into the alchemy of negotiation, offering a comprehensive recap of strategies, from the foundations to advanced tactics. It will act as a perfect mentor for management students, working professionals and MSME (Micro Small Medium Enterprises) owners by empowering them with the art of rapport, trust and value creation. It will help you to navigate objections, embrace continuous improvement, and stay industry-savvy. With the help of this guide, you can able to master the finesse of negotiation, turn it into a life skill and join the ranks of esteemed negotiators who make every deal count.