Selling
is an art form or should I rather say that it is an on-going process of fostering
relationships with people, who have a need or challenge, you can solve, by
supplying them with the product or service you offer. Selling is most certainly
never about telling, or a single event. It is a process, which develops daily
over time, never in a day, by fostering mutually beneficial relationships with
people, who you view as partners. When you view your clients or prospects as
partners or potential partners, your approach to them and the way you will
interact with them is very different to a traditional sales person, who is
sitting opposite a “BUYER” with their feet braced against the desk, desperate
to make a sale at all costs.
The
sales professional, who approaches every client or prospect, with a view to
forming a mutually beneficial partnership with them, will be constantly looking
for ways to add value to their partner. Anyone who is entering a partnership
with someone else is always looking for ways to foster good relationships, to
support them and to build trust with them. You can never be authentic and
foster the meaningful relationships you need, if you do not believe 100 % in
your product or service. You will be very quickly found out, if you try to sell
something you do not completely support or believe in yourself.
As
you know your new partners will only buy from people they know, like and trust
and they believe, is adding real and meaningful value to them or their
business. When your intentions are not honourable and you try to pretend that
you have your clients and prospects best interests at heart, but in fact you
are only there to try to close a sale. You will be found out. We have an
inherent ability to read peoples body language, their tone and pitch of voice
and the cadence and volume of their speech while they talk. Your client will
very quickly see through any façade or false intentions.
Plan your Sales Calls
Just
like anything in life, you need to plan every sales call or relationship
building process, before the meeting. Yes you can wing it and walk into the
meeting unprepared, and in some cases may even get away with a lack of preparation.
Attempting to go into a sales meeting with your client or partner unprepared,
is like allowing yourself to be a paper cup blowing around with no direction in
a car park. You will just get shunted around in the meeting at the whim of your
client or partner. They will be in control and you will be in a weakened
position, where you will be forced to tell to try to sell. Have a clear
intention or purpose for every sales call.
Change the Way You Look at Your Clients
If
you want anything in your world to change in an instant, then simply change the
way you look at it and it will immediately change. As soon as you are able to
make the shift in your mind, away from viewing yourself as a sales person, who
desperately needs to sell your wares, and instead you see yourself as a value
adder. Someone who has a fantastic product or service, which can be included
into someone’s life or business, to remove a challenge they currently face or
to satisfy a need they may have. You equip yourself to become a relationship and
partnership builder. Approach every client or prospect with a mind-set of let’s
go do it, rather than I am here to sell you something, now you go do it. See
the relationship you are developing, as a way of doing something with and for your
client or partner.
As
soon as you change your philosophy and truly believe in what you have to sell
and you authentically believe, that it is a real value adder within your partner’s
life or business. You are ready to start the journey to become a relationship
builder and partnership developer. Your intent will always be crystal clear,
when you work with any client. They will see right through any façade you may try
to create. When you are authentic and you always act with your clients or
partners best interests at heart, you will build long term relationships with
people who will get to know, like and trust you and obviously buy from Dare to
explore the limits of your potential and awaken your full sales potential. It
is time to up your game and to set your sales giant free. Unlock your hidden
sales super star and finally make the shift away from old school hard selling,
towards new age relationship building and sales influence, as an effective
selling strategyyou.
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As you build relationships with your new partners you will be equipped to use
their positive emotions to show them how your product or service will add real
and lasting value to their business.
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