Naked Sales

How Design Thinking Reveals Customer Motives and Drives Revenue

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Pub Date Sep 26 2017 | Archive Date Dec 07 2017

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Description

Naked Sales: How Design Thinking Reveals Customer Motives and Drives Revenue by co-founders of Somersault Innovation, Ashley Welch and Justin Jones reveals how you can reinvigorate your sales organization, create new opportunities, and build competition-proof customer relationships when you start thinking like a designer.

Design Thinking is a customer-centric innovation process that transforms the way one sells, whether it’s an inside sales team or a group of field reps with multi-million dollar portfolios. Welch and Jones’s proven Sell by Design methodology will reduce the time it takes to get a first call, build pipeline, and increase deal size. And it reestablishes a deeper human connection in an era of automated response. 

Naked Sales will show you how firms like Salesforce, Facebook and GE are using this approach to stay customer-centric and increase revenue. 

Naked Sales is designed as a manual for quick and easy guidance. Whether you read it cover to cover or skip around as appropriate to your situation and interest, you’ll learn:How technology is disrupting sales and how to keep upA proven recipe to drive revenue and add more art to your science of sales A series of tools to uncover more insights about your clients Specific prompts to discover untapped problemsHow to use insights to get into the C-suite quicker and easierHow to use agility to hear fewer “No’s” and inspire bigger “Yeses     How to integrate Sell by Design as a sales managerHow as a sales manager you can reduce pressure on yourself and your team while kicking serious butt

Naked Sales: How Design Thinking Reveals Customer Motives and Drives Revenue by co-founders of Somersault Innovation, Ashley Welch and Justin Jones reveals how you can reinvigorate your sales...


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Authors are available for interviews, blog tours, autographed tours, autographed book giveaways, contests, and book club discussions.


Advance Praise

"Sell by Design is the only training we have done that we can directly correlate to increased pipeline that turned into increased bookings. It was highly measureable and added millions of dollars to the top line."  - Will Anastas, Senior Vice President, Salesforce

"If someone is genuinely interested in connecting in a deeper way with their customer base, this approach is the way to do it. You will not do it with any other sales technique that comes with a checklist and scripts and sales pitches to customers. Quite frankly, if you don't connect with your customer in a genuine way, you will lose out to someone else."- David Lewis, Vice President, Client Management, Ellie Mae

"Nothing has been as sticky as Sell by Design. Even if something is helpful, people always fall back into old habits. Not with Sell by Design. Account Executives (AE) immediately got out of their comfort zones, oriented toward customers differently, and saw results that reinforced the habit. One AE reignited a stalled deal and increased the opportunity by $240,000 with an unexpected upsell."- Jennifer Fortune, Director, Global Sales Enablement, Hyland Software

"Sell by Design is the only training we have done that we can directly correlate to increased pipeline that turned into increased bookings. It was highly measureable and added millions of dollars to...


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About the Authors:

ASHLEY WELCH cofounded Somersault Innovation, a Design Thinking consulting firm providing a unique approach to sales development. Prior to Somersault Innovation, she spent twenty years as a leading sales professional for a leadership development company. She also founded TEDxYouth@Wayland.

JUSTIN JONES began his career in marketing and sales before moving into management consulting, innovation, and design. He has helped hundreds of teams apply design thinking against their toughest challenges and achieve breakthroughs. As cofounder of Somersault Innovation, he loves design’s ability to surprise people with unexpected results.

About the Authors:

ASHLEY WELCH cofounded Somersault Innovation, a Design Thinking consulting firm providing a unique approach to sales development. Prior to Somersault Innovation, she spent twenty...


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