• Skip to main content

Feel Good About Selling

Increase Your Sales | Keep Your Integrity

  • Get Book
  • Get Sales Coaching

Mar 14 2023

Navigating Contextual Pain

This one underrated pain point in discovery can make/break your deal

The common types of pain are:

  • Surface level
  • Business impact
  • Personal stakes

But don’t forget contextual pain 

Context – or current realities – have real impact, enabling you to help your prospects see the bigger picture. A simple (and common framework): VUCA

Buyers (and sellers) are navigating:

  • Volatility
  • Uncertainty
  • Complexity
  • Ambiguity

Related posts:

  1. The Power of VUCA in your sales motion
  2. Sell the future – not the milk
  3. Why sales is bananas right now

Written by Ted Olson · Categorized: Sales Blog

  • Get Book
  • About
  • Media Kit
  • FAQs
  • Contact
  • Sales Blog

Copyright © 2025 | Feel Good About Selling | privacy