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How To Overcome Sales Resistance Forever
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When you're speaking to someone about your services do you
sometimes feel as if a barrier is coming up for them? The
person may resist listening to you, they may resist opening up to
you and they possibly might not trust you right from the
beginning. These are all signs of sales resistance. Sales
resistance is virtually an automatic reaction we all have. To
understand this, put yourself in their shoes.
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Put yourself in their shoes and think about your own reaction
when someone is trying to sell you something. How does it make
you feel? Do you feel resistant? Do you feel tense? Do you feel
that all the seller cares about is making a sale instead of
caring about you? Do you want to leave the conversation as soon
as possible? If you feel like this, it is only natural that the
person you are talking to will also feel like this if you are
trying to sell them something.
The key to overcoming sales resistance is to forget about selling!
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When you're having a
conversation with someone, it's best not to
have the intention of selling him or her anything. Forget about
selling. Instead have the intention of having a conversation to
explore whether you can help the person get what they want. If
it turns out that they have a want or need for your service, they
will decide to buy.
If someone is having a conversation with you and you feel they
sincerely want to help you, how does that make you feel?
Relaxed? Interested? Keen to know more?
Again, this is an automatic reaction we all have. Notice there
is no "sales" resistance with this approach.
Do not try to fake sincerity. You can't pretend you really want
to help someone and at the same time be thinking that you really
want to make a sale no matter what. What you are "really"
thinking will be picked up by the person you're talking to.
They'll know right away if you're sincere.
There is another way to overcome sales resistance: get yourself
known.
If people don't know you, they may perceive you and what you're
selling as a high risk and people naturally and automatically
tend to resist what they perceive as high risk.
When you are well known in your niche and positioned as an
expert, people will automatically and naturally perceive you as
lower risk. People rightly or wrongly automatically think that
if you are well known and positioned as an expert, you must be
good at what you do otherwise you would not have achieved this
status.
When you are well known people will be attracted to you and will
be open to what you have to offer and say. There will be very
little resistance - provided of course your intention is not to
sell them something!
In summary, if you want to overcome sales resistance forever
there are two things you need to do. The first is don't have the
intention of making a sale when you're talking to someone.
Instead, have a conversation with the intention of helping them.
Trust that those who have a need or desire for your services
will buy them. The second is to get known fast as this will,
amongst other things, overcome the risk perception of doing
business with you.
(c) Tessa Stowe, Sales Conversation, 2006. You are welcome to
"reprint" this article online as long as it remains complete and
all links are made live.
Tessa Stowe teaches coaches, service professionals and
recovering salespeople 10 simple steps to turn conversations into
clients without being sales-y or pushy. Her FREE monthly Sales
Conversation newsletter is full of tips on how to sell your
services by just being yourself. Sign up now at
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