The biggest gap between sellers and buyers is a shared understanding of a solution’s value. This gap leads to long sales cycles or worse, deals that just fade away. Overcoming this chasm can be accomplished using value selling tools, which function as a Rosetta Stone to unlock insights for both sides.
David Svigel
David helped launch ROI Selling with the vision of bringing other like-minded value practitioners together to deliver seamless value selling programs. He contributes to the firm’s strategic path and is active in all aspects of the business. His focus is on helping clients construct their value proposition, tool delivery, and client service. He has extensive B2B market planning, marketing, and sales enablement experience with Fortune 500 enterprises as well as startup companies. Through all these roles, he studied how a solution’s value was (and wasn’t) communicated to customers. David took the learnings from those successes and failures and helped create a set of value-based marketing and sales tools adapted to today’s technology. David earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Cleveland State University. He serves on the planning committee for OHTec’s Sales & Marketing Group and volunteers his time across his community. David and his wife enjoy small town life and sharing the unique experiences and conversations that come with having a daughter in the sixth grade.
Recent Posts
Wonder why your buyers and sales teams aren’t using your value selling tools? Chances are they’re built around a product-centric value proposition and creating unwanted complexity, despite your best intentions. Here are two strategies for fine tuning your value selling tools and increasing adoption.
Societal upheaval over the past year has profoundly changed the buyer’s journey. Beyond mandates and restrictions, buyer behavior has been influenced by declining levels of trust in government, institutions, and other people. The result is that buyers have become less trusting and more firmly rooted in their beliefs.