How do you get your prospects and customers to see you as a credible,
trustworthy, and professional sales representative during your first sales
call?
First, a quick story to help make the point.
Have you ever seen an ice sculptor at work?
Imagine this scene and setting.
You're going to a breakfast buffet on a cruise ship. As you stand in line you
notice a man with a white beret and chef's apron hovering over two huge
blocks of ice. As you move forward through the mountains of food on the
buffet line you see the sculptor chipping away at the ice.
You and your spouse find a table not too far away from the ice sculpture.
When he's finished, you're amazed to see what has been sculpted from the
two large blocks of ice.
It was a hippopotamus.
You couldn't help but hear what someone asked as he approached the ice
sculptor.
"That's beautiful - how did you ever do that?"
The sculptor responded, "It was easy, I simply chipped away everything that
didn't look like a hippopotamus."
Now back to the original question. The answer is for you to chip away at
everything that doesn't make you credible, trustworthy, and professional.
For example:
Don't begin your sales call the way your competitors do.
Don't talk too much.
Don't ask closed-ended sales questions.
Don't say you can save them time and money.
Don't show up without written sales call objectives.
Don't lower your price without asking for something in return.
Don't ask, "How soon do you need it?"
Don't keep blabbering until your prospect gets fidgety and says, "Your time
is up."
Don't forget to send a handwritten thank you note.
To sum it up to you should avoid doing what your competition is doing.
First impressions are precious!
You can make your first impression, with all new sales prospects and
customers, count by being better and different.
If you want to project that you're credible, trustworthy, and professional you
have to act the part and play the role.
You gotta look good and sound good - and that's a simple truth!
First Impressions Mean Everything, Especially If You're In Sales - To learn more about this author, visit Jim Meisenheimer's Website.
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