EXPERIENTIAL SELLING · SERIES

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Selling technology is a conversation
about consequences.

Notes from three decades of selling complex ICT to railways, telecom operators and public administration: what decision-makers actually listen to, and why being technically right rarely closes on its own.

Experiential Selling is not a new sales technique. It is a way of reading technology sales from what really happens on the other side of the table.

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4 articles · suggested reading order

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From the gap between credibility and influence, to the work nobody sees, to the newsletter where the series began.

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01 · THE GAP

Technical Credibility Isn’t Business Influence: How to Make Decision-Makers Listen

You can be the most technically right person in the room and still lose the decision. Why it happens, and what changes it.

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02 · THE SHIFT

Turn Technical Credibility Into Business Influence

Turning technical expertise into influence with the people who set budgets and priorities.

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03 · THE WORK NOBODY SEES

People Who Watch You Work Don’t Understand What You Do

Farmers, hunters and a five-year-old’s verdict: why the value of sales work is invisible to the people watching it.

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04 · WHERE IT BEGAN

Experiential Selling

Experiential Selling, the weekly newsletter on tech sales skills where this series started.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Giuseppe Cordone

Electronic engineer (La Sapienza, Rome) and Key Account Manager at an Italian ICT system integrator. More than thirty years designing, proposing and bringing network and infrastructure technology into railways, telecom operators, utilities and public administration.

HiTechStories is where I write down what actually happens when technology meets real organisations — the projects that worked and the ones that taught more because they did not.

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