How to Handle the Prospect Who Keeps Changing Their Buying Criteria - Sales Leadership with Fexingo

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sales objection handling changing buying criteria scope creep sales prospect changes requirements deal management

Episode notes

Every sales rep has been there - you're two months into a deal, the prospect's team has agreed on a set of requirements, and suddenly they add a new must-have feature that your product doesn't have. In this episode of Sales Leadership, Lucas and Luna break down a specific playbook for handling the 'moving target' prospect. Using a real case from a mid-market SaaS company that lost a $400,000 deal only to win it back six months later, they walk through the three-step framework: pause, re-qualify, and re-anchor. Lucas explains why the first instinct - to immediately promise a workaround - is almost always wrong, and why the real problem is rarely the new criteria itself but a shift in the prospect's internal politics. Luna shares a counterintuitive technique: asking the prospect to rank the old criteria against the new one in writing. The episode closes with a tactical checklist for sales leaders to coach their teams through scope creep, including a specific email template that one rep used to reset a stalled deal. No fluff, just a concrete tool you can use on tomorrow's call.

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