In our 2 previous articles we introduced you to the concept having a scripted Sales Conversation and got you going with Step #1 of our 8-Step Sales Conversation That Closes More Sales – building rapport. If you missed them you can find them here:
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Introduction To An 8-Step Sales Conversation To Close More Business
- Step #1 In The FOCUS 8-Step Sales Conversation That Closes Sales
Now carry on in this article with Steps #2 through #5 and really get into becoming a sales machine that controls the conversation no matter where your prospect may try to take it.
Step #2: Ask Questions
A powerful method of establishing rapport is to ask great questions about the prospect! Then ask questions directly related to your prospect’s business, talking their language.
Step #3: Find the Need
Finding a need or qualifying the buyer, means discovering
- Where is the pain?
- Quantify that pain in $ terms
- Is there truly a requirement for your product or service?
- What are they looking for in a product or service that would fix the pain?
- What factors will influence them to buy?
Step # 4: Establish Value
Now you get to talk.
- What is your reputation in the marketplace?
- Why is your product or service valuable to this prospect?
- Introduce market education. This will make you valuable to the prospect
- Spend a brief moment or two telling the prospect the ‘value’ of being involved with your company.
In addressing the above four points:
- Stress the quality and service you
- Give a formal orientation not a presentation
- Provide evidence
Step #5: Create Desire
Create desire with a mixture of problems and solutions
Prospects will move faster towards accepting your offer to close if there is a problem they will overcome, rather than if they will gain some unrealized benefit. “Show me the money!”
If you found real pain and quantified it by simply repeating what your prospect told you, this can create the desire for change. “So, Fred, you’ve told me that it has proven really challenging for you to contract with an excellent overnight cleaning company. You said it takes each of your staff twenty minutes every morning to finish cleaning their personal areas and for twenty-five people, I’d estimate that is almost $500/day or over $130,000 annually.
That’s a lot of wasted resources, isn’t it? Plus, you said that over the past five years you have spent over two hundred hours yourself finding, negotiating, and firing cleaning staff. Am I correct? That isn’t very productive, is it? Then, of course, we have to include the leakage of office supplies you have attributed to the past cleaning companies. Fred, I think you’d agree that enough is enough.”
Remember: Features ‘Tell’, Benefits ‘Sell’!
With this in mind, lead your prospect through a series of questions towards intensifying their need for your product or service, and present amazing data that truly motivates your prospect to take action now.
What performance standards can you prove or, better yet, guarantee?
Remember, if you are going to offer a performance guarantee, it must be real, or it will be perceived as disingenuous. If it is real, then brand it.
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Coming next are the final 3-Steps to having a brilliantly scripted Sales Conversation. Come back soon and check it out.
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