Introduction: the hardest part of selling solutions -- The dark side of customer consensus -- The mobilizer -- The art of unteaching -- Building commercial insight -- Commercial insight in action -- Teaching mobilizers where they learn -- Two types of tailoring -- Taking control of consensus...

Anbieter in Business-to-Business Märkten sehen sich einer zunehmenden Komplexität ausgesetzt, die aus einem globalen Wettbewerb und einer steigenden Verhandlungsmacht des Kunden resultiert. Organisationale Kunden erwarten sowohl schlanke Angebote, die auf Grundlage von effizienten und...

"Most sales training focuses on getting to know the product, analyzing the market, and identifying the competition, but there is more to sales success than that. Successful selling takes three types of preparation: The what: knowing the product, the industry, and the competition: The how:...

We use an incentivized experimental game to uncover heterogeneity in otherregarding preferences among salespeople in a large Austrian retail chain. Our results show that the majority of agents take the welfare of others into account but a significant fraction reveals self-regarding behavior....

We use an incentivized experimental game to uncover heterogeneity in other-regarding preferences among salespeople in a large Austrian retail chain. Our results show that the majority of agents take the welfare of others into account but a significant fraction reveals self-regarding behavior....