8. Features / Needs / Benefits
Feature
Need
Benefit
Something that defines your product
or service, and your company
A customer requirement
A feature that satisfies a need
Customers can have both Positive and
Negative Needs
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9. Open and Closed Questions
Open
Closed
Who, What, Where,
When, Why, How
Do, Does, Did, Are, Has,
Have, Is, Could , Can,
Would, Will ... etc.
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10. The Sales Conversation
Open Question
! ! Need
Closed Question
! ! Confirm the need
Support
Benefit
Agreement
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11. Three Types of Need
Presumed
Actual
Unknown
What the customer
thinks he needs
What the customer
really needs
What the customer was
totally unaware of
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20. It’s too expensive!
Clarify the Objection
“When you say it's too
expensive, are you saying you
cannot afford the price or is
there something I've missed?”
Objections
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21. Listen to the whole objection
Clarify the objection
Answer the objection
Get agreement
Objections
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23. Either
! Convert the objection to a need
! then provide your benefit that
! satisfies that need
Or
! Minimize the objection and
! maximize the benefits you have
! already agreed
Opposition
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24. Add
Take away
Multiply
Divide
all the benefits
what the customer
will lose
the savings
the extra cost by some
appropriate figure
Opposition
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26. Sceptical
You cannot talk your way out
of a sceptical objection
Show the customer some
independent proof
Demonstrate it
Guarantee it
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