Friday, December 5, 2025
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SalesCred: How Buyers Qualify Sellers

In sales, there’s a lot of talk about qualifying the buyer. What’s the lead scoring say? Are they a marketing-qualified lead or a sales-qualified lead? Do they fit our ideal customer profile?

This is exactly BACKWARDS. Instead, you should be talking about how the buyer qualifies (and disqualifies) the seller. What determines who they invite to compete for the business?

Who do they call or email back? And who they share sensitive business information with?

This is the importance of Sales Credibility – the quality all salespeople must have before you can ever “earn trust” and become a “trusted advisor.”

This book reveals how salespeople build (and lose) credibility with the things you say and do every day. You’ll learn the secrets of building your sales credibility, so you can attract higher-value accounts, gain greater access to the real decision-makers, and sell from a position of strength. It also gives you the leverage to avoid dropping your price when budget is hard to come by.

SalesCred(TM) introduces the Hierarchy of Sales Credibility(TM) which is a 5-layer framework that allows you to see where you are on the credibility hierarchy and what you need to do next to get to the next level. The hierarchy is a roadmap which will help you be seen by sales prospects in the most credible light possible.

This book also enlightens sales managers on the new definition of credibility, the role it plays in sales, and how they can improve their team’s credibility for higher performance.

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About the Author

C. Lee Smith
C. Lee Smithhttp://www.salesfuel.com/cleesmith
Lee Smith is the CEO and Founder of SalesFuel®- a Columbus, Ohio-based firm that was named one of the Top 15 Sales Enablement solutions providers for 2019 by Selling Power magazine. His firm helps sales teams leverage critical insights that enables them to acquire, develop and retain their best employees and customers. Uniquely geared to service the fast-changing sales landscape, C. Lee Smith is one of the country’s foremost experts on: sales discovery and needs analysis sales coaching sales culture hiring for sales sales management and leadership Lee is one of select few certified advisors worldwide for sales consultant Jeffrey Gitomer and was recognized as of the Leading Sales Consultants by Selling Power magazine in October 2018. He is also a C-Suite Network Advisor for sales leadership and management and co-host of the popular Manage Smarter™ podcast on the C-Suite Radio Network. His client roster includes Comcast, Berkshire Hathaway, Spectrum, Cox Media, Altice USA, Gatehouse Media and OEConnection. Lee is the creator of SalesFuel COACH – the new software-as-a-service platform for data-driven, adaptive sales coaching – and SalesFuel HIRE for avoiding costly hiring mistakes through the use of data-driven analytics. Lee is also an expert on advertising, digital marketing, audience segmentation and small business marketing. He is the creator of AdMall® – the nation’s leading provider of consultative sales discovery intelligence for local advertising and digital media – used by over 20,000 media sales professionals and marketing agency business development specialists across America. Lee is a graduate of Ohio University and has earned a certificate in executive leadership from Cornell University. Schedule Lee to speak at your next sales conference, training event or management retreat at cleesmith.com, schedule a consulting session or download one of his free white papers: Disruptive Sales Management through Adaptive Sales Coaching What Your Salespeople Are Afraid to Tell You What is Company Culture - and Why is it Important? The Best Sales Manager I Ever Had