Why should you consider adding device management and security solutions to your sales offerings?

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Options

• Aquicker sales cycle when selling solutions rather than selling hardware
• Bhelps build long-term relationships with customers
• Chelps you sell to customers who do not easily adopt new technologies
• Dhelps you sell more hardware, despite the lower margins that solutions offer

• A
  77% (36)
• B
  13% (6)
• C
  4% (2)
• D
  6% (3)

Explanation

Adding device management and security to your sales portfolio accelerates deal velocity because customers can solve multiple pain points-device control, compliance, threat protection-in a single purchasing decision rather than evaluating and procuring separate hardware components one by one. This consolidated value proposition reduces the number of meetings, stakeholders, and approval cycles needed, making the path from prospect to close shorter.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• B is a real benefit of solutions selling but it's a byproduct, not the primary reason to add these offerings-long-term relationships result from value delivered, not from the product category itself.
• C is backwards: device management and security solutions require technology adoption, so they don't help with reluctant adopters; if anything, they face more resistance from that segment.
• D is factually incorrect-solutions carry higher margins than commodity hardware, not lower; the premise of the choice undermines itself.

Memory tip: Picture a "one-stop shop" checkout-when a customer can grab everything in one cart (device management + security + hardware), they check out faster. Solutions = fewer trips = quicker cycle.

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