Biz Tip of The Day: Use Emotional Appeal to Combat Resistance


Use emotional appeal to combat resistance in sales. By attacking someone's feeling about something you are denying them those feelings. Instead, there are better ways to handle it:

Prospect: “I hate to spend the money.”
Salesman: “Too bad you feel that way.”
Better answer: “I understand how you feel, unless you look at the benefits and how much our program can save you in a matter of weeks. You will get back your one time investment and many times over if a matter of months”

or

Prospect: “I think it's a waste of time to do the training you suggest.”
Salesman: “You are the only one who thinks that.”
Better answer: “Initially it takes more time. Later your team can train themselves and by that time they will be outselling your competitor. Here are the statistics from two of our program users to bear this out.”

Your better answers, of course, must be truthful and you have to be willing to back them up.

Success by Design, Not by Chance!


In business you get what you want by giving other people what they want.”

Alice MacDougal

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