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Avoiding the Value-Added Trap

Bob Apollo - 5 November 2019

An earlier version of this article was first published in the November 2019 edition of Top Sales Magazine.
Every sales organisation likes to believe that what they are selling is valuable. But there are many interpretations and definitions of what value really means. In practice, of course, the customer’s opinion is the only one that really matters.
One of the most common claims made by salespeople, the sales organisations they work for and the marketing departments responsible for positioning their company is that they offer “value-added” solutions, or that they have a “unique value proposition”.
Companies can sometimes get away with these claims in B2C or simple B2B environments.
But in complex B2B sales environments, this “value-added” language often turns out to be a smokescreen for trying to persuade customers that they require more functionality than they really need and as a justification for paying more for the proposed “solution”

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