Reader Resources

Sales Is Not Rocket Science, But a Simple Art  |  Stephan Lahn

The book gives you the framework.
These tools put it to work.

Every template and checklist on this page comes directly from the methodology in the book. They are not generic downloads. They are the exact tools referenced in each chapter, built to be used in the field, in your next meeting, your next pipeline review, your next call.

Three are free for everyone. Eight more are reserved for readers of the book, unlocked with an access phrase which you can find at the very end of Chapter 15.

Free Tools
Meeting Checklist
Before, during and after. A full checklist covering preparation, delivery and self-reflection. Use it before every meeting, at every stage, until the discipline becomes automatic.
Kill Criteria Evaluation Card
Ten signals that a deal is dead or dying. Use it when a deal has stalled or your gut is telling you something. Three or more signals ticked means one thing: ask the direct question before you remove it. If that question goes unanswered, the deal is dead. Remove it.
B2B Discovery Question Bank
Forty questions across five categories: the person, the team, the company, the buying process and the next step. Use it to prepare for any discovery meeting. The questions you ask determine the deal you win.

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For Readers of the Book
Objection Handling Reference Card
The nine most common objections in B2B sales, with what each one usually means and how to handle it. The three-bucket diagnostic framework sits at the top. Diagnose before you respond. The confident response to any objection is a question, not a counter-argument.
Meeting Scorecard
Two versions in one document. The self-assessment is for the salesperson after every meeting. The manager observation version is for joint visits and role plays. Both score across the same five stages, with two additional categories for managers: Listening Skills and Presence and Conviction.
Proposal Preparation Checklist
Before the call, during the call and after the call. Every step from building the proposal to sending the calendar invite. A proposal is not a brochure. This checklist makes sure it does not read like one.
Pipeline Planning Template
Work backwards from your annual target to your weekly prospecting activity. Enter your ratios, get your business plan. Update your pipeline value weekly for an instant health check. One number tells you whether you are covered, watching or undercovered. Includes a Glossary and Guide tab explaining every term.
The Private Goals Workshop
The commission calculator that connects your sales target to what you actually want from your life. Fill in your personal goals, your commission structure and your ratios. The sheet shows you exactly what hitting target means in real money and what missing it costs you. Base salary pays the bills. Commission funds the life.
Handover Checklist
Four sections covering the brief, the introduction meeting and the aftermath. The signature is not the finish line. This checklist makes sure the client's experience of the transition matches the experience of buying from you.
Prospecting Tracker
Forty rows, one per prospect. Track every active outreach with channel, touches, last contact, next action and status. The summary row tells you at a glance how many are warm, cold, dead or meeting-set. This is not your CRM. It is your prospecting discipline tool.
Weekly Pipeline Review
Fifteen minutes. Every week. Twenty-five rows, the three questions for every deal and a space for the actions that come out of it. Any deal that cannot answer all three clearly needs immediate action or a kill criteria review.

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Eight templates and worksheets, reserved for readers of the book. Enter your email and the access phrase which you will find at the very end of Chapter 15

These tools are free for individual use. They are not for resale, redistribution or use in commercial training programmes without written permission.

If you want to bring this methodology to your sales team, get in touch at sl-unfiltered.com