Consultative Sales

Consultative selling represents a sales approach focused on understanding customer needs, goals, and pain points before introducing products or services. Rather than promoting features, consultative sellers establish trust through relationship building and helpful expertise sharing.

Consultative salespeople aim to guide customers in making optimal decisions for addressing business issues versus pushing specific products. Their goal is crafting the best fit solution whether the company’s offerings or partnerships. The consultative approach fosters lasting customer partnerships and enables selling higher value solutions. It is well-suited for complex B2B sales.

Consultative selling relies heavily on sales teams asking the right questions, actively listening, thinking long term, and adding tangible value throughout the customer lifecycle beyond transactions. When executed with integrity, it earns customer loyalty through advice.