How to Build a Profitable Services Business in Any Industry

What You'll Find in This Book

This essential sales tool reveals:
  • Why selling services helps sell more products.
  • Why everyone needs to sells services.
  • How to tap the power of your hidden sales force within.
  • How to determine if selling services is appropriate for your organization.
  • Which of the three selling services strategies is right for you.
  • The common barriers to seriously selling services and the common steps taken to address these barriers that never work.
  • Five mandatory “got to do it” actions required to turn box pushers into sellers of the invisible.
  • Four free-to-fee strategies that never work.
  • How to transition from free to fee and not irritate customers or drive the sales force crazy.
  • What executives must say and do, and do again, to make the transition to selling services.
  • How to grasp the challenge of the channel to implement proven strategies.
  • Ten steps to building a portfolio of services that customer want and will pay for.
  • Five stages of leading services in a product company required both for organizational effectiveness and personal sanity.
  • The misconception that selling services lowers overall profit margins.
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“I really like this book. It tackles, head-on, all the issues associated with building a profitable services business. It is a great read for anyone serious about making this transition.”

— Dan Wiersma
Former Senior Vice President
Sony Service Platform