5 reasons to move beyond selling benefits and features

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5 Reasons to Move Beyond Selling Benefits and Features Kurt Sima The Center for Sales Strategy

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Are you a salesperson still selling benefits, and talking about features, with your prospective clients? Leads don't want that! Here are five reasons why.

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5 Reasons to Move Beyond Selling

Benefits and Features

Kurt Sima The Center for Sales Strategy

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1. Leads already know about your features and benefits.

If they don’t, they’re not your target. Your time is too valuable to waste on clueless clients.

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2. Leads have more problems than they know how to solve.

They need to know how you can help them, not why they should buy your product.

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3. Leads are too busy to listen to your pitch.Don’t drone on about your topic. Listen, and offer solutions.

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4. Leads don’t care about you.They care about themselves, and their problems, not you and your product.

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5. Solutions are more marketable.Reframe your sales pitch and sell solutions instead of products. You’ll sell more that way.

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Teach people how your product will help solve

their problem.

It’s a simple sales shift that will seriously impact your sales.