Bad news - people don't buy your product.
Better news - they don't buy anyone else's product either.
Best news - they do buy what a product gives them, whether it be removing 'pain' or giving 'pleasure'.
So what a challenge it is that every single person buys your product for a slightly different reason! What's the secret to selling in that sort of sales environment? This programme provides a great roadmap.
This course will help participants:
Build rapport with authenticity
Use open questions, listening and summary to properly understand the prospect
Use 'impact' questions to 'stack the pain' of remaining with the status quo
Convert features into personalised benefits that reflect stated needs
Handle objections with calm confidence
Identify buying signals
Close effectively
Convey credible urgency centred on the prospect's - not the salesperson's - interests
1 What makes a customer buy any product?
Moving towards 'pleasure'
Moving away from 'pain'
Robert Cialdini's Psychology of Influence - buying motives
Understanding what your product does for customers
Why there is never a 'one size fits all' approach
What are the real 'unique selling points' and why the salesperson is the real 'USP'
At what point does the customer emotionally buy your product?
2 Getting past gatekeepers
What gatekeepers' motivations are
How to make them your friend rather than your enemy
How to make your call harder to block than to put through
How to control the gatekeeper with questions, not answers
Using Cialdini's 'reciprocity' law to get put through more often
Practical exercise in which the trainer poses as gatekeeper
3 Questioning and listening skills
How to use open questions to get the customer talking
What questions to avoid and why
How to 'stack the pain' of the status quo with 'impact questions'
Practical 'pain stacking' exercise in pairs
What listening is and what it isn't
Question funnelling - how to earn deeper disclosure through probing
Practical funnelling exercise in pairs
The power of summary
4 How to create tailored benefits and not 'dive into solution'
What is 'diving into solution'? Examples and analogies
Why it is to be avoided
Practical exercise in pairs - how it feels to have solutions offered up too early
How to avoid 'feature-dumping'
What is 'value selling'?
How to create tailored benefits
How to convert product features into benefits
How to deal with the prospect's competitor allegiance
5 Handling objections and testing the water
How to overcome the price objection by selling value
Common objections the participants encounter and answers that work
The objections salespeople carry in their own heads
The 'A-C-E' objection-handling model
How to uncover objections
When - and when not - to trial close
6 Closing skills
Why salespeople often close too early
How to identify buying signals
How to use urgency with skill and effectiveness
Four killer closing techniques that work
How to avoid buying the product back by careless post-sale talk
How to ask for referrals for your product
How to 'farm' the account for future opportunities
7 Wrap-up
Key learnings from each participant
Individual action planning - steps that can and will be implemented in the workplace
Delivered in Harpenden or UK Wide or OnlineHarpenden or UK WideorOnlineFlexible Dates
This is an essential programme for managers or members of staff (or students) who need to be able to read and summarise information on screen faster and more effectively. The session focuses on the different types of reading style and encourages better retention of written material through the use of specific speed-reading techniques.
By the end of this programme participants will be able to:
Explain the principles of speed reading
Understand the barriers to reading
Use different reading styles according to the information being read
Read more effectively from tablet and computer screens
Co-ordinate eye movements better
Minimise any poor reading habits
Increase reading speed by over 50%, without losing comprehension
Improve retention of information using specific techniques
The programme focuses on how to maximise reading from electronic devices by exploring techniques which will reduce eyestrain and improve reading effectiveness. The session also explains different types of reading styles and how to learn new, positive reading habits.
1 An introduction to speed reading
The history of speed reading
Assumptions about reading
The process of reading
Schema and its influence on interpretation
Eye/brain relationship
How our brain processes written information
2 Minimising barriers to reading
Understanding eye tics
Mouthing
The influence of different light sources
Body clocks and making use of natural patterns
3 Reading styles
Importance of choosing the right reading style
Speeds and their influence on retention
Reading for pleasure
Proof reading
Scanning
Skimming
Reading for retention
SQRW principles
4 Reading from electronic devices
The challenge of reading from screens
Importance of breaks and proper display screen evaluation
Calibrating screens and background colours
Formatting documents
Using eye guides
Delivered in Harpenden or UK Wide or OnlineHarpenden or UK WideorOnlineFlexible Dates
The 2-hour Baby & Child First Aid class covers CPR, Choking, Bumps, Burns, Breaks, Bleeding, Febrile Seizures and Meningitis & Sepsis Awareness and will give everyone who attends the peace of mind they deserve.
Our *NEW* Mini First Aid Baby Proofing class is our second class, designed for parents and carers of babies and children over 3 months. It can be taken after our 2 hour Baby and Child First Aid class, or in isolation for those parents who are starting their weaning journey, or have a baby on the move!
The 3-hour Baby & Child First Aid class covers CPR, Choking, Bumps, Burns, Breaks, Bleeding, Febrile Seizures and Meningitis & Sepsis Awareness and will give everyone who attends the peace of mind they deserve.