Even if he has just seen three patients in succession before you, displaying the same symptoms as you, a doctor will not infer the same diagnosis for you. Inference is a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning. Fact is a thing that is known or proved to be true. Consider the sentence,
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To do this successfully the seller should come from a point of ignorance, not knowledge. Keep it customer focused until he sells himself your lozenge having felt his pain. For instance, having surveyed the photos on the walls, showing the varied countries the Chief Engineer has worked in, this insurance agent points and breaks the
You notice that the damaged machine belongs to a competitor. You start salivating. Don’t! It is not an invitation to a sale. Buying means changing and chancing. Abandoning the familiar and risking. The risk could be reputational (Will we end up with egg on our face partnering with this new firm?) or financial (will we
An effective close is the result of a process; it doesn’t happen by solely focusing on it (the result) without building the momentum to it. Effective closing statements and techniques come in handy. Phew! The fabled 91 days of January have officially come to a close. And closing is what I’d like to talk about
It is very likely that if you do not take notes as the buyer speaks, you are a poor listener. Every salesperson should take notes in client meetings. The more if you are a Business to Business (B2B) seller. Here are three reasons why. You are a poor listener First, taking notes amplifies your listening.
Asking Self-Interrogation Questions like Why am I selling this?, So what? and, Why Should they buy?…Answer these three questions before you pitch and you will significantly increase your chances of closing ‘The problem with schooling is that we are taught to answer questions- not ask them.’ I once read this somewhere. And yet the Bible
Salespeople don’t ask questions for various reasons. It doesn’t help that the high pressure sales environment does not reward meek attempts To begin with, the novice salesperson would rather ‘die with her problems’ than ask for help. In fact, this in itself is a significant reason why sales turnover remains on an all-time high. What
You lose the sale when you don’t see things from the buyer’s perspective; not only are you not on the same page, you are reading different books. Help the buyer ‘see’ it. Paint a picture from his perspective. Simplify the sale. Take the fellow effortlessly selling water storage tanks. He does not stop at, “This
Driven by the desire to make a quick sale, it is easy to lose sight of what business you are in and who feeds it. It is amazing the sales lessons you can glean from simple, common experiences. Two happened to me which have inspired this article. One early morning, sixteen years ago, in a
Anybody can ask a question. But to to thrive in selling requires one to ask insightful questions.Insightful questions don’t merely yield knowledge- they shed revelation by eliciting a protracted response. The importance of asking insightful questions in selling cannot be gainsaid. Insightful questions lead to a faster, bigger and better close. Faster because, once you