Educating your clients on financial issues and then LETTING THEM
DECIDE what they want to buy is three times more profitable
(and ten times more fun) then trying to talk people into buying what
YOU think they should buy.
You don’t have to wrestle your clients into a sale to make money. In
fact, you will make a lot more money if you stop trying to control
your client into a sale and instead help them discover what is really
important to them, and then help them get what they want.
I call it Selling Without Wrestling™ which is also the
title of my 4-module (one module per week) Teleseminar Sales Training
Series which starts again on March 10th. I will be doing free
teleseminar previews of this training the latter part of February so
watch your email for announcements.
Here is one of the main premises of the Selling Without
Wrestling™ training:
People want two basic things from a financial rep (which they also
don’t expect to get). They want relevant information about the
financial issues they are currently facing without any sales pressure.
In other words, people want someone knowledgeable to talk to who isn’t
going to try and sell them something as soon as they show some
interest.
This sounds easy enough. Why do so many reps shy away helping their
clients discover and get what they really want? Most reps don’t get
any training on how to do it. We all get trained on how to control the
client into a sale. We learn to make sales and make money by
controlling the client. To give up this control and potentially give
up making money is an unsettling proposition.
However, when I convince reps that they can actually triple their
closing ratio by taking a less controlling approach, I start to get
some attention. I especially get the attention of all the reps who are
already very low key in their approach and would like to have a 90%
closing ratio. It is very exciting to the low-key reps to realize they
can have a higher closing ratio than the hard closers.
One of the keys to having a 90% closing ratio is that you have
to get your client to verbalize what is important and why it is
important. This is what they will commit to. This is what they
will spend money on.
If you would like to increase your skills in this area, my
best-selling book addresses this subject in great detail: How to
Double Your Sales by Asking a Few More Questions which is
available again this month at $10 off with this discount code:
362190. (If for any reason the code doesn’t work, make a note in
the “comments” and we will make the adjustment. Offer expires 2/29/08.
International Orders see below.)
Have a productive February,
Toll-free: 877-985-3297
sid@sidwalker.com
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