Selling what you have to offer
Every successful business ultimately sells what it has to offer. Having millions of prospects isn’t enough if no one ultimately pulls out their wallet and says, “I’ll take one.” The Sales process begins with a prospect and ends with a paying customer.
No sale, no business.
The best businesses in the world earn the trust of their prospects and help them understand why the offer is worth paying for. No one wants to make a bad decision or be taken advantage of, so Sales mostly consists of helping the prospect understand what’s important and convincing them you’re capable of actually delivering on what you promise.
The end of the Sales process is an excited new customer and more cash in the bank.
Key Ideas which we will work through are:
Transaction
Trust
Common Ground
Pricing Uncertainty Principle
Four Pricing Methods
Price Transition Shock
Value-Based Selling
Education-Based Selling
Next Best Alternative
Exclusivity
Three Universal Currencies
Three Dimensions of Negotiation
Buffer
Persuasion Resistance
Reciprocation
Damaging Admission
Barriers to Purchase
Risk Reversal
Reactivation
“People don’t like to be sold, but they love to buy.”
Jeffrey Gitomer, author of The Sales Bible and The Little Red Book of Selling