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Sales Technique
- Selling Floor --> Improvisational Actor
- Subject given by audience <-- no prepared script/plot
- Developed methods/routine to handle oddball suggestion.
- Know the product, but no set script
- How to assert control
- Objectives / Perspectives
- Identify a prospect true buying motives (vital info)
- Structure sales presentation accordingly.
- direction and flow of presentation.
- Sale --> Classic Negotiation
- Each party try to satisfy individual needs
- Customer Need - Persuade my product satisfies their need better than any other competitor
- My need - Earn a commission, turn prospect into repeat business, and referrals
- Negotiation
- Win-Win - both won, both satisfied personal needs
- Classic Selling Steps
- Meet and Greet
- Probing and Qualify
- Selling Benefits
- Demonstrating
- Handling Objections
- Closing
- Delivery and Follow-up
- Meet and Greet
- One Chance - good first impression
- Attitude (pleasant expression)
- Facial Expression
- Dress (professional appearance)
- Positive impression
- Establish trust
- Customer affected by bad experience elsewhere.
- No service or over-sell, over promise
- Customer expect quality of the product reflects on quality of of sales people.
- Classic flow (ideal)
- Walking to customer
- Introduce yourself
- Probe customer need
- Reality
- Hi May I help you --> never use canned opening
- Looking response all the time
- Ask, make the situation ease
- Observe what the customer is using, make them off guard
- Get them offer name to start conversation. (get customer talking!)
- Continuous obtain info of need!
- Probing and Qualify
- Classic approach
- which product
- decision maker who
- Financing / price
- Intro product features (customer may hear a lot of irrelevant info, tune out to the conversation)
- Problem --> what the customer need, not found here!
- Why the customer buy
- Price - only an issue after product satisfy his need.
- Product Knowledge / Sales Skill --> motivate someone that the product satisfy the need
- Probing - uncover the hot button (primary need) - 1st priority demand
- 2nd question - further clarify the hot button
- 3rd question - why (reason behind) for the hot button
- --> prove the product satisfy/exceed the need
- Presenting the automobile
- Who is Competitor
- product worth the price
- Product presentation / demo
- Add evidence that the price tag reflect the value.
- Handling objections
- Stated objections
- Implied objections
- stated excuse
- stall techniques, handle it before it become objection
- Test hidden objection / source of objections
- Signals of hidden objections
- Remove objection
- work with customer getting the truth, towards the problem
- Closing
- fear of turn-down
- When to close
- Listen for signal of closing, ready to close (buying cue)
(Don't talk beyond the sale) - After demonstration
- Trial to close (probing)
- Trial to close
- Question(s) probing for readiness to buy
(e.g. How soon do you need this? You can take it today.) - No force to make buying decision
- How far from actual close
- To motivate customer make positive decision
- Closing Techniques
- Direct close - feel confident close, no obstacle
- Summary close - remind features satisfy your need
- Assumptive close - push the customer (ask to buy)
- fill in the order form
- call the manager to approve the price
- Delivery and Follow-up
- Good delivery = next sales presentation
- Statistics - one good delivery --> 3 referrals
- Good delivery
- Preparation (pre-delivery)
- checklist
- Presentation
- Personal demo
- reinforce the customer decision
- exciting moments, memorable
- deliver theatrics
- Post-delivery follow--up
- Check satisfaction
- Customer of the future
- Uncover leads from other people
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