The Voice of Value Podcast

Episode 14: Sales Transformation: Geoff’s Jihad on Outcome Selling

Featuring: Geoffrey Moore, Bestselling Author, Speaker, Advisor

A next generation of customer success, which now looks at three levels of outcomes for a customer. Geoffrey Moore, Bestselling Author, Speaker, Advisor, discusses his jihad with executives to put a second pipeline in their CRM around outcome selling.

Key Takeaways

Geoffrey Moore, Bestselling Author, Speaker, Advisor, discusses his jihad on outcome-based selling.

3 Key Insights from this Episode:

  1. Digital transformation is putting a greater emphasis on outcome selling. Geoff shares some terrific examples of how Salesforce.com is doing this.
  2. This holy war, or Geoff’s jihad, with executives to put a second pipeline in their CRM around outcome selling.
  3. A next generation of customer success, which now looks at three levels of outcomes for a customer.

[4:10] Geoffrey Moore on his book, Crossing the Chasm, on how would a startup take a disruptive innovation to scale.

[5:41] Geoff on the most destructive thing you can do to a company.

[7:04] How a sales leader can transform their team to be more customer-outcome focused and make the numbers.

[10:50] The way you can build trust with your customer.

[11:40] How to differentiate yourself in the sales discovery process.

[12:31] Geoff’s perspective on which companies are doing a sales transformation well.

[14:36] How sales transformations happen gradually and suddenly.

[15:41] The digital transformation occurring in sales today and how to approach sales in 2019 to add value to your customers.

[17:54] Most CRM systems have one pipeline model–it needs two.

[18:58] The customer success function is still maturing.

[20:53] Customer success metrics that truly serve customers outcomes.

[21:50] How can I create programmatic ways to interrogate the health of a customer? It begins with having an authentic conversation about the desired outcomes with customers.

[22:40] The three tiers of customer outcomes.

[24:06] Advice to sales leaders in the throes of a sales transformation to outcome-based selling. Geoff’s jihad on finding a way to implement a second pipeline into your CRM system.