Sales executive level 4 - Customer needs analysis-SEL4

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The video explains that successful sales depend on understanding customer needs and matching solutions to them, rather than pushing what benefits the seller. It covers how to research needs by learning about customers’ industries, market conditions, and consumer or business segment profiles. For consumers, segmentation may use systems like NSSEC, NRS, or ACORN; for organisations, it uses factors such as sector, size, location, structure, customers served, and financial performance.<br /><br />It then outlines needs analysis through adaptive selling, using open and closed questions and the SPIN model: Situation, Problem, Implication, and Need/Payoff. Salespeople should listen actively, identify both explicit and implicit needs, and adjust questions based on customer responses. Finally, it stresses the importance of understanding influencers in the decision-making unit, including budget holders and other stakeholders, since buying decisions are rarely made by one person alone.

Keywords

customer needs

sales research

market segmentation

SPIN model

adaptive selling

decision-making unit