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- "Do It Selling!" author.
- Works with a lot of professional services clients who hate to sell.
- "New Sales Simplified," "nobody defaults to prospecting," Mike Weinberg
- Pushy... salesy...always negative when describing salespeople.
- Stop talking so much.
- You don't have to pitch and present and make offers.
- Ask more questions.
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- Become a facilitator...and interviewer.
- Ask follow-up questions...and what else?
- Take off your salesy hat.
- Peel the onion.
- Ask questions to have the power and none of the pressure.
- "A prospect who is listening is not a prospect."
- Get the structure and framework in the book.
- Conversation roadmaps.
- Four phases of professional selling
- Initial diagnosis
- Prescription
- Treatment
- Outcome
- It's sales malpractice to skip right to treatment before diagnosing.
- Speak the prospect's language to create a successful proposal.
- "Based on everything you've said so far, this is at least a 6-figure deal. Now if that doesn't scare you, let's keep talking."
- Be proud of your pricing and the value you deliver.
- Have a business discussion, so it's about them.
- Sales discussions are about us, and prospects don't want to have those discussions.
Negotiate up, not down."
- Robert Cialdini, "consistency."
- Prospects will find the money to be consistent if things change.
- "I'm curious, what budget restrictions are you working with?"
- Break it into phases. "The more you look, the more you find."
- Negotiation in the book. Negotiate up, not down.
- "Of course, it's negotiable. Everything has a price. How much more would you like to pay?"
- This shows confidence and certainty.
- Every day you're running an obstacle course in sales, and you're surprised to find brick walls and water obstacles and boulders.
- A good sales process is like an attorney cross-examining a witness.
- How do you prevent the objections: time, money, confirm with partner/spouse, we've tried it before, it's not a good time, it's our busy season, etc. (There are only about nine objections.)
- You must dissolve those objections before asking for the sale.
- Maybe salespeople are lazy.
- Started as a marketing consultant, so he wrote a marketing book.
- After years of helping speakers, he wrote a speaking book.
- Now he wrote a sales book because the whole point of marketing is to generate a sale.
- Writing crystallizes thought, and thought crystallizes action.
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