Matt Dixon
Co-Founder, DCM Insights. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Matt Dixon is a sales and customer experience researcher who co-authored influential business books including The Challenger Sale, The Effortless Experience, and The JOLT Effect. After holding executive research roles at CEB and Tethr, he co-founded DCM Insights to provide advisory services on client acquisition and retention.
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Dixon: Pushing FOMO on hesitant buyers backfires 87% of the time
“87% of the time when salespeople do that dial up the FOMO in those moments, especially with a customer who says that they're ready to move forward, but they start to backpedal and waffle and waver and become hesitant, dialing up the FOMO backfires 87% of the t…”
Dixon: 56% of no-decision sales losses stem from fear of failure
“It turns out those are only 44% of the no decision losses. 56% of no decision losses are customers who are, who want to buy, but can't buy because they're stuck in this no man's land of indecision, and that indecision itself stems from their fear of failure”
Dixon: Buyers' fear of messing up outweighs fear of missing out
“In the human mind, people are okay with missing out. They are not okay with messing up and being blamed. And this is really powerful. It's even more powerful than status quo bias, as I said. And so the shorthand for salespeople is this, dialing up the FOMO can…”
Dixon: Incumbent software vendors suffer more buyer indecision than startups
“Look, you guys, yes, it's tough to be a startup right now, early stage company. There's a lot of risks there, but who's offering more choices, them or you guys? You guys have a partner ecosystem. You have like, 20 different cloud products. You've bought like s…”
Dixon: Effective sales involves revealing unseen customer risks tied to unique solutions
“The challenger approach is about showing the customer what should be keeping them up at night. What is the thing you know that they need to know? What is the way that other customers are using your solution to Generate returns and in benefit for their organiza…”
Dixon: 40% to 60% of qualified sales pipeline ends in 'no decision'
“Our analysis showed that anywhere between 40 and 60% of the average salesperson's qualified pipelines, these aren't just leads, you know, sometimes bad leads that are thrown over to us by marketing. These are qualified opportunities. These are You know, people…”
Dixon: 87% of buyers in 2.5M sales calls showed indecision
“It turns out that 87% of buyers in our two and a half million sales calls we studied Either showed moderate or high levels of indecision. The folks who are not worried about fear or failure were 13%.”
Dixon: Salespeople must shift from diagnosing needs to recommending decisions
“The simple guidance here for salespeople is that you've got to shift
Your posture from asking the customer what they want and just diagnosing their needs to actually recommending to them what they should do.”
Dixon: Top salespeople build trust by admitting product flaws and competitor advantages
“We found in the analysis, there are specific things that sales, great salespeople do very early on. They are brutally transparent with customers about like, Hey, I know you were interested in this capability. I gotta be honest. It's, You know, we get mixed rev…”
Dixon: Tech sellers lose credibility by bringing a 'clown car' of experts
“What we see in so many sales interactions, especially in tech, is that salespeople will show up with the clown car of experts, the subject matter experts, the solutions engineers, the product people, the executive sponsors, and then they will just punt to thes…”
Dixon: Challenger conversations require truly unique capabilities, not generic claims
“Getting this right starts with answering the question, why should the customer buy from you instead of your competitors? And it's not because you're more customer centric or more innovative, impossible to prove your competitors claim the same thing. It's not t…”
Dixon: Top salespeople deliberately under-promise and over-deliver on customer business cases
“What great salespeople do, though, was they know that while they'll stand by those claims, those case studies, those proof points, they try to kind of under-promise and over-deliver.”
Dixon: Top sellers position professional services as insurance against failure
“You will find that high performing salespeople will also add on professional services, but it's not just because they're selling more, which they are because they're high performing salespeople. It's the way they position that they usually position it as an in…”
Dixon: SaaS sales currently face the most customer indecision across industries
“I think that it might just be that SaaS is the place where we're seeing the most indecision these days, you know, but It does not suggest it's kind of an easy target, but it is rife with indecision these days.”
Dixon: 75% of salespeople reflexively increase FOMO when buyers hesitate
“And the knee jerk reaction for almost every salesperson out there, this happened like in our analysis, 75% of salespeople we studied would immediately go out to dialing up the FOMO, like to go back to doing that.”
Dixon: The JOLT Effect analyzed 2.5 million sales calls using ML
“We recruited several dozen companies across industry and around the world into a large global study. We collected two and a half million sales calls and studied them with a machine learning platform at scale.”
Dixon: Challenger dataset expanded to 250,000 salespeople worldwide
“Over time though, you know, that, that research has been ongoing. So we've collected data data, I think to date on roughly a quarter million salespeople around the world that we continue to go back and not just validate the original findings, but look at how t…”
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