Posts Tagged ‘Integrators’

What does your ideal prospect look like? Not long ago, I was at a happy hour with some friends. Sara, one of my colleagues, was there, and she joined us for a little while. She was engaged in a conversation with my friend Jacob about his love life. Sara asked Jacob the question we all…

Security integrators rarely meet with prospects before there is a project… but they should. In the security integration world, bad salespeople offer the cheapest possible price for solutions created by the customer. Good salespeople create solutions for the problems found by their customers. However, the great ones find the problems and solve them before they…

What makes an exceptional sales presentation? I’ve watched, delivered or created thousands of sales presentations, and I have evaluated the success rate on most of them. Whether an integrator trying to win a project, a manufacturer trying to impress an integrator or either of them presenting to an architecture and engineering firm or consultant, most…

When an end user had an issue 15 years ago, they would call their security integrator to solve the problem. Even if they weren’t committed to one integrator, they’d call a few to compete for the job. But that’s not the case today! When a problem arises today, your customers gather as much information online…