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SPIN Selling Summary & Review: Let the Buyer Name the Need
SPIN Selling by Neil Rackham shows why hard closes fail in large deals — and how Situation, Problem, Implication, and Need-payoff questions…
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"Ask until they want the change."
Neil Rackham is a researcher and consultant who pioneered consultative selling by observing tens of thousands of sales calls. SPIN Selling (1988) is the field book from that work — investigating that turns a problem into an explicit need.
1 book featured·Consultative selling research·Key themes: SPIN questions, explicit needs, advances
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SPIN questions
Situation, Problem, Implication, Need-payoff — in that order — grow a gap into a request.
Notable Quotes
"In larger sales, investigating is the skill that predicts success."— SPIN Selling
"Implied needs are not enough. Get an explicit need before you pitch."— SPIN Selling
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SPIN Selling Summary & Review: Let the Buyer Name the Need
SPIN Selling by Neil Rackham shows why hard closes fail in large deals — and how Situation, Problem, Implication, and Need-payoff questions get the buyer to ask for the change.