Sales Psychology & Methodology
Ali Fadhil
Senior Sales Leader  ·  B2B SaaS & ERP  ·  MENA Markets  ·  Dubai
Sales is not about closing. It is about understanding people well enough that closing becomes inevitable.
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The Method
The ALFA Methodology
My personal framework for B2B sales, built on psychology instead of scripts.
Sales & Psychology
Cognitive Biases & Tactics
The psychology behind why buyers buy, why they stall, and how to work with both.
From the Field
Real Deals, Real Lessons
Nine years of stories. What worked, what failed, and what I took from both.
Latest Thinking
Sales, psychology & what actually works
Cognitive Bias

Why buyers justify decisions they already made emotionally

Post-purchase rationalization and what it means for how you close.

 Negotiation

The golden silence: state your price and say nothing

The pause after a number is your most powerful tool. Most salespeople kill it immediately.

 Pipeline

Stop worshipping the whale. Build your quarter on base hits.

Big deals are seductive and deadly. Here is how top performers actually close consistently.
"Scripts are crutches. Processes are maps. Frameworks are weapons. One makes you average. The others make you dangerous."
Ali Fadhil, The Book of ALFA
Background
Where this thinking comes from
Nine years in B2B sales across MENA. Four of them at Odoo, selling ERP to businesses in Saudi Arabia and later leading a team across 13 Emerging Markets countries. Before that, high-value equipment sales in Jordan where I closed a $400K deal as an individual contributor and ran sales events entirely on my own.

The ideas on this site are things I gathered, tested, and refined across hundreds of real deals. Some came from books. Most came from losing deals I thought I had won, and winning deals I thought I had lost.
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