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THE JOLT EFFECT

Ted McKenna Matthew Dixon

How High Performers Overcome Customer Indecision

From the bestselling coauthor of The Challenger Sale (nearly one million copies sold in the US!) comes a paradigm-shattering approach to overcoming customer indecision and closing more sales.
In sales, the worst thing you can hear from a customer isn't "no." It's "I need to think about it." When this happens, deeply entrenched business advice says to double down on your efforts to sell a buyer on all the ways they might win by choosing you and your business. But this approach backfires dramatically. Why? Because it completely gets wrong the primary driver behind purchasing decision-making: Once purchase intent is established, customers no longer care about succeeding. What they really care about is not failing.

For years, sales expert Matthew Dixon has been busting longstanding business myths. Now in THE JOLT EFFECT, he and coauthor Ted McKenna turn their trademark analysis and latest research to the vital and growing problem of customer indecision. They offer a shocking new approach that turns conventional wisdom on its head. Drawing on a brand-new, first-of-its-kind study of more than two and a half million sales conversations from across industries, they reveal the surprising truth that high-performing sales reps grasp and their average-performing peers don't: Only by addressing the customer's fear of failure can you get indecisive buyers to go from verbally committing to actually pulling the trigger.

Packed with robust data, counterintuitive insights, and practical guidance, THE JOLT EFFECT is the playbook for any salesperson or sales leader who wants to close the gap between customer intent and action - and close more sales.

Matthew Dixon is the Wall Street Journal-bestselling author of three of the most important business books of the past decade: The Challenger Sale, The Effortless Experience, and The Challenger Customer. He is also a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review on sales and customer experience. He is a founding partner of DCM Insights, a boutique consultancy focused on using data and research-backed frameworks to help companies attract, retain, and grow their customers. Previously, he held numerous global leadership roles at organizations like Tethr, Korn Ferry Hay Group, and CEB (now Gartner). He is a sought-after speaker and advisor to management teams around the world, including many of those in the Fortune 500.

Ted McKenna is an accomplished sales and customer experience researcher whose work has appeared in the pages of Harvard Business Review. He is a founding partner of DCM Insights, a boutique consultancy focused on using data and research-backed frameworks to help companies attract, retain and grow their customers. He has held numerous leadership roles at Russell Reynolds Associates as well as the sales practice of CEB. He is a sought-after speaker and advisor to sales and customer experience teams around the world.
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Published 2022-09-20 by Portfolio

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Dixon and McKenna have mined a massive trove of data to extract piles upon piles of golden nuggets of sales insight. They show how we've misunderstood what really holds back buyers. And with a deft combination of analytic rigor and practical guidance, they chart a path to doing better.

"The Jolt Effect" is a playbook for overcoming customer indecision and closing more sales. Drawing on a study of more than 2.5 million sales conversions, it explores a customer's fear of failure to go from verbally committing to pulling the trigger. Learn how to close the gap between customer intent and action. Read more...

Matt Dixon, shares his groundbreaking recent research on the indecision epidemic that's sweeping the world and impacting your bottom line... Read more...

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Chinese (compl.): Yuan-Liou ; Japanese: Umitotsukisha ; Portuguese (Brazil): Objetiva/Companhia das Letras

Every last person in sales should rush to buy this book. Fresh, interesting, evidence-based, and above all practical, this book will spark a transformation in the way we sell.

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For years, we've been told that the status quo is our biggest competitor in sales. But, using a powerful combination of modern machine learning and troves of research into human psychology and behavioral economics, The JOLT Effect turns that conventional thinking on its head.

The JOLT Effect debunks long-held sales beliefs. The psychology behind buying decisions is a valuable perspective that is missing from traditional selling methods.

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The JOLT Effect is an absolute game changer - bringing the most fascinating current psychology insights together with the practical applications needed to succeed in B2B selling.

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"This is the most important advance in sales thinking since The Challenger Sale. The JOLT Effect shines a bright spotlight on the biggest and, for years, largely unspoken challenge facing sales teams: no decision. This should be required reading for any sales professional looking to overachieve.

Authors' Article: Stop Losing Sales to Customer Indecision... Read more...

coverage: Matthew Dixon and Ted McKenna discuss indecision's impact and how sellers approach it from the wrong angle. Too often, a rep believes a prospect isn't committing due status quo. "For decades, salespeople have been taught that there is only one possible reason for this outcome: that they have failed to defeat the customer's status quo," they explain. "While preference for the status quo is a significant obstacle that every salesperson must overcome if they wish to sell anything, there is a second, more menacing and difficult to defeat, obstacle salespeople must contend with: the customer's own inability to make a decision." Read more...

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10 Books to Add to Your List for Insights in Leadership and Management: The authors use an original study of millions of sales conversations to guide salespeople and sales leaders, and reveal that addressing customers' fear of failure can turn indecisive customers into buyers. Read more...

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podcast interview: Episode 16: Overcoming Customer Indecision? Read more...