Selling to the CIO

27 - 28 October 2021

Rethink your CIO sales approach

This year will see the return of IT News Africa’s highly rated Selling to the CIO virtual workshop.

This intensive workshop, which is set to be held online on 27 – 28 October 2021, will see sales leaders gain vital insights into how to successfully engage with CIOs.

Why attend?

Selling to CIOs is not easy. According to Mark Hall Founder & General Manager CIO Executive Council: “The repeated issue every year—what keeps CIOs up at night—is the sales and marketing practices of technology vendors. It’s a cat and mouse game. It’s not efficient for buyers; it’s not efficient for sellers. The whole relationship is problematic.”

CIOs are extremely busy and they are inundated with technical sales calls. Nonetheless, those who make a good living selling to CIOs have learned that there are ways to sell to CIOs that are truly effective. This intensive 2-day workshop is designed to provide good solid practical strategies for selling to CIOs that will help you and your company meet your CIO selling objectives. If your organization wants to become more effective at selling to CIOs, then this seminar is a must-attend for your sales team.

This intensive 2-day workshop is aimed at any professional who is responsible for selling technology solutions to senior executives.

Topics at this intensive 2-day workshop will include:

  • Your Strategy to Win over the CIO
  • Navigating to the CIO: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches
  • Organising the Presentation to the CIO: How to Gain Credibility & Overcome Objections
  • CIOs Describe Habits of the Best (and Worst) IT Sales Reps
  • What CIOs Say Earns Reps Trusted Advisor Status
  • What CIOs Expect from Reps at a Sales Meeting
  • Penetrating the Organisation at Various Levels of Responsibility
  • Communicating Strategic and Operational Value

 

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Speakers
Sameer Jooma
Innovation & Analytics Executive | Non Executive Director | Turnaround Management, Start-up Capital Raising
Marlon Moodley
Managing Director, B2HA ICT Advisory (Pty) Ltd
Why Attend?

BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

After completing this program, your sales team will be able to:

  • Differentiate your sales team as a trusted partner to the C-Suite.
  • Adopt best practices for quickly engaging with and selling to the C-Suite; recognizing C-Suite needs are unique to the position.
  • Develop an understanding of how to work with the C-Suite by building interest, trust, and credibility into your product.
  • Create an action plan to increase your Trusted Partner effectiveness when working with the C-Suite.
Schedule
• Formulating the Grand Strategy to Win the Complex IT Sale
• Why do we need to access the executive level?
• The challenge of selling to the executive level
• The role CxO’s play in the buying process
• Start at the Top of C-Level Management
• How, when, and why to engage at the executive level

 

• Executive-level roles and responsibilities
• Tactics to Defeat the Competition Linking your solutions to executive-level goals
• Developing your business acumen and vocabulary
• Account maneuvers to improve competitive position.
• Organizing the presentation to the CxO: How to gain credibility, overcome objections and create consensus.
• Understanding the political structure of the account.

 

• The three key objectives of every for-profifit company
• How executives develop objectives and initiatives
• Tying your solutions to executive-level initiatives
• Crafting executive-level business solutions
• Translating value across the enterprise

 

• Understanding your prospect’s business
• Political account structure of IT and the psychology of IT organizational buying.
• Conducting meaningful company research
• Compiling useful executive research
• Establishing your executive-level account strategy
• Defining your executive value hypothesis
• Establishing an executive approach process
• Defifining specifific executive approach plans
• Using a multi-pronged approach pattern
• Earning the initial executive-level conversation
• Turning executive conversations into opportunities
• Flanking strategies when you're stuck at the wrong level
 
• Preparing for your VP or C-Level meeting
• Objectives of your fifirst executive-level meeting
• Facilitating executive-level conversations: Presenting your solution
• Crafting effective diagnostic questions
• Probing questions at the executive level
• The Persuasive Elevator Pitch: Linguistics structure and compelling delivery.
• Connecting with The CxO through Sales Linguistics (using the right words at the right time to persuade the CxO to buy).

 

• IT Negotiation Strategy: Closing strategies and negotiation tactics
• Group Presentation Strategies and Tactics - focus on high-level add-ons
• Focus on selling big-ticket initiatives – like Cloud, hardware, and ERP.
• Bringing your full product portfolio to the executive team, which could add signifificant value to the organisation.
Event Details
  • Days
    Hours
    Min
    Sec
  • Start Date
    October 27, 2021 10:00 am
  • End Date
    October 28, 2021 4:00 pm
  • Status
    Upcoming
  • Category
  • Phone
    +27 11 026 0982
  • Email
    events@itnewsafrica.com
  • Who will benefit?

    The program is best suited to IT vendors:

    Vendor CEO’s, Managing Directors, Business Development Directors, Business Development Managers, Sales Directors, Consultants, Sales Managers, Key Account Managers, Heads of new business and Sales executives.

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