Sales Resistance and the Recession - 7 Steps to Turn Prospects Around
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You learned the three R's when you were in grade school but selling in today's economy is about two R's - resistance and recession - and they are related. While resistance is always lurking in the background, the recession brings it to the forefront and your salespeople must be able to sell - despite it - and therein lies the problem.
Most salespeople, upon hearing "not interested" or "we're all set" or "we're not spending any money" or "we'd like to do this instead" usually utter some form of "OK" and end the call.
A much smaller percentage of salespeople try to turn it around but in doing so sound like high pressure salespeople. Any presentation in the face of resistance, regardless of how short, is perceived by the prospect as pressure. There are a very small percentage of salespeople who will turn it around by asking permission to challenge or push back - I actually use these words: "Is it OK if I push back on something you just said?"
As long as your salespeople let their prospects talk - taking notes about the cracks in their argument and the discrepancies in their logic - it doesn't really matter when your salespeople make the attempt to turn their prospects around. And once they make the effort, it shouldn't take more than a few minutes. It might sound something like this: "I heard you say that you're most interested in providing moon travel and that's important. But I also heard you say that you're struggling with your existing tours of the earth and your fleet is unreliable, in disrepair, and customers are getting upset. Why wouldn't you want to solve the existing problem first?"
There are seven steps for turning prospects around in the face of resistance.
1. Listen
2. Take Notes
3. Ask Permission to Challenge
4. State Their Goal
5. Note Discrepancy 1
6. Note Discrepancy 2
7. Ask the challenging Question
And there is one rule for turning prospects around in the face of resistance.
1. Do not present facts or logic
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About the Author: Dave Kurlan RSS for Dave's articles - Visit Dave's website Dave Kurlan is a best-selling author, top-rated speaker and thought leader on sales development. He is the founder and CEO of Objective Management Group, Inc., the industry leader in sales assessments and sales force evaluations, and the CEO of David Kurlan & Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in sales force development. Dave has been a top rated speaker at Inc. Magazine's Conference on Growing the Company, the Sales & Marketing Management Conference and the Gazelles Sales & Marketing Summit. He has been featured on radio and TV, including World Business Review with General Norman Schwarzkopf, in Inc. Magazine, Selling Power Magazine, Sales & Marketing Management Magazine and Incentive Magazine. He is the author of Mindless Selling and Baseline Selling – How to Become a Sales Superstar by Using What You Already Know about the Game of Baseball. He created and wrote STAR, a proprietary recruiting process for hiring great salespeople, and he writes Understanding the Sales Force, a popular business Blog and is a contributing author to The Death of 20th Century Selling (Dan Seidman), Stepping Stones (Deepak Chopra and Brian Tracey) and 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life, Volume 2 (David Riklan). Click here to visit Dave's website. Predict Sales Turnover Salesperson Selection Visual Pipeline |
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