“Passion is contagious and if you speak with conviction about the product or solution you’re offering, it will be difficult for your prospective client to disengage from the conversation.” – Hans J. Van Order in today’s Tip 403
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Scott Ingram: You’re listening to the Daily Sales Tips podcast and I’m your host, Scott Ingram. Today’s tip comes from Hans Van Order. Hans is fueled by his desire to help others succeed, his entrepreneurial spirit, and his willingness to contribute to the environment he wants to live in as a consumer. He has been in the B2B community since 1999 and has helped many organizations shift their processes, reputation, performance, and culture to the next level. Recently, he’s put his experience and observations into actionable models that can be applied to every business within the pages of The Sales Upgrade: Mastering the Seven Rs of Selling. Here he is with today’s tip:
Hans J. Van Order: I believe that passion, conviction, and belief are responsible for more sales than features, benefits, and prices. Passion is contagious and if you speak with conviction about the product or solution you’re offering, it will be difficult for your prospective client to disengage from the conversation. In my mind, all sales situations are advisory in nature. A sales professional uses their knowledge and expertise regarding their products, solutions, and offerings combined with a deep understanding of their prospective customer’s needs and desires to provide advice and guidance regarding how best to move forward. If one does this with passion and conviction, it creates an extremely compelling reason for your customer to say “Yes”. The most successful sales professionals I’ve worked with throughout my career tap into this power by exploring rewards and consequences. They consider the logical reasons for the customer to move forward as well as the emotional rewards their client will experience for doing so. They fully understand everything their customer has to gain by moving forward as well as the many consequences involved in taking no action at all. By fully understanding the impact of these rewards and consequences on the individual and organization they’re working with, they are better able to articulate their recommendations with passion and conviction. Consider a medical doctor who through research and proper diagnosis realizes that a surgical procedure is necessary in order to save a person’s life.
How much passion and conviction would they bring to the conversation when explaining the logical reasons to move forward as well as the emotional rewards for doing so. How much conviction would they display as they articulate the consequences of not moving forward with their recommendation? When this doctor is successful at convincing their patient to act, will we say they sold a surgery or saved a life? There are rewards and consequences involved for every product, service, and solution.
My advice to you is to stop selling and start helping instead of a dispassionate description of the features and benefits of your offering, gage your customer a two-way conversation. Prepare for your conversations by designing intelligent and well-formed questions. Through the diagnosis and discovery process, you will learn and understand your customer’s situation. This will prepare you to provide meaningful and actionable advice. Ask questions to discover the deeper needs and desires of your clients and then give them good advice that will maximize their rewards and reduce their consequences. Do this with passion and conviction. Stop selling surgery and start saving lives.
Scott Ingram: You can find links for a variety of ways to connect with Hans, and most importantly a link to buy his new book: The Sales Upgrade at DailySales.Tips/403.
Once you’ve done that. Be sure to come back tomorrow for another great sales tip! Thanks for listening.