“So remember that buyers don’t know how to buy, and the primary piece of value that you bring to the table, as the seller, is helping them do that in a really efficient and intelligent manner.” – Will Yarbrough in today’s Tip 1267
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Transcript
Scott Ingram: You’re listening to the Daily Sales Tips podcast and I’m your host, Scott Ingram. Today’s tip comes from Will Yarbrough. Will is a career sales professional and currently serves as the Vice President of Sales at Fleetio, a fleet management software that helps organizations track, analyze, and improve their fleet operations. Skilled in sales, management, and leadership, Will sees opportunities and easily matches them up with solutions. Here he is:
Will Yarbrough: One of the easiest ways to get jammed up in a sales process is to operate under the assumption that buyers actually know how to buy anything. One of my connections a while back reminded me that this is a lot like the real estate market. Where you’re not going to show up to an open house or click a listing on Realtor.com and punch ‘Buy Now’ and next thing you know you own a house. You’re going to talk to a real estate agent. You’re going to look at multiple listings. You’re going to go through a due diligence process. You’re going to get an inspection done. You’re going to go through financing and all this negotiation to ensure that you and the seller come to terms on something that’s agreeable for you. And that ultimately, once you buy and you invest in this new property, that it’s going to be the right thing for you in the long run. And that’s the same thing that sellers do each and every day, is help get buyers from point A to point B as quickly, efficiently, and intelligently as possible.
The thing I like to remind myself and my team of all the time is that buyers don’t know what they’re doing, buyers don’t know how to buy. And the reason for that is just not a muscle that they flex all that often. Specifically in the software industry, as an example, you may replace software every few years, so you’re out of practice as a buyer. And so while you may operate under the assumption that the buyer knows what they’re doing and what they’re looking for. And they know the processes that they have to go through. Ultimately get approval and budget and signing on the dotted line and so on and so forth. But the sellers, we are the people that are helping to shepherd these folks through this process each and every day. You may do it a dozen times, you may do it a hundred times, you may do it a thousand times, but either way, you do it more than the buyer does.
And so one of the things that we can do as sellers is bring confidence and guidance and advisory into the sales process. And it’s not only confidence, an advisory, and advice around the product that you’re selling or the solution that you’re providing, but also how to pick the right thing as efficiently as possible. So doing discovery and understanding needs, relating those needs to your solution, and then articulating what life is going to be like once they implement your solution or service is essentially why we exist. So remember that buyers don’t know how to buy, and the primary piece of value that you bring to the table, as the seller, is helping them do that in a really efficient and intelligent manner.
Scott Ingram: For links to connect with Will and to check out Fleetio where Will is actively hiring, just click over to DailySales.Tips/1267. Once you’ve done that, be sure to come back tomorrow for another great sales tip. Thanks for listening!