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The Forest & the Trees

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Many mid-market B2B firms have a discipline around Win-Loss Analysis. Approaches vary widely, but almost always, the impetus is based on a simple concept:
We need to learn more about what’s driving deal outcomes, e.g., “Why are we winning, and why are we losing?”

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Through the Lens of Winning

Stu Perlmeter

As a provider of Win-Loss Analysis, we interact with quite a few companies about their opportunity set. Depending on who you speak with, they may refer to it as their …

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The Fabric of Opportunity in B2B Selling

Stu Perlmeter

As companies wrestle with the pain and disappointment of losing a sale to a competitor, especially when confidence was high that they would win, some interesting psychology comes into play.

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Winning and Losing – At the Same Time

Stu Perlmeter

Usually we think of win-loss analysis as something we do to put losses under the microscope. That way, the common thinking goes, you will see what you did wrong and fix that, in order to win more often in the future. A worthwhile motivation to begin the exercise if you’re not engaged in it already.

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It’s Not Surprising

Stu Perlmeter

So, why are you surprised? As hard as you work on closing significant sales, you think you might know better. Yet, even as a finalist, you find yourself sweating bullets while waiting to hear if you’ve won the deal.

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Explaining the Unexplainable

Stu Perlmeter

Making sense of the seemingly random things that happen in business and in life is just part of human nature. It’s how we’re wired. When a significant sales opportunity is lost to a competitor, that instinct goes into hyper-drive. There is a lot of explaining to do.