Connecting: The Key to a Successful Buying and Selling Relationship
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CONNECTING
The key to a successful buying relationship
Connecting is a process that begins before you first meet a potential client and continues throughout the entire sales
presentation.
Five-Step Process• Attitude• Presentation• Rapport building• Determining
needs• Time strategy
A manner, disposition, feeling, position, etc., with regard to a person
or thing; tendency or orientation, especially of the mind.
Step One - ATTITUDE
Attitude Determines Altitude
Begin with self-motivation
• Control what you can … let go what you cannot.
• Concentrate on the now… do not concern or frustrate yourself about tomorrow or yesterday.
• Love the one you’re with.
Don’t be afraid to fail• Be aware that your client has a buying
process just like you have a selling process.
• Part of your client’s buying process is to eliminate you.
• Recognize elimination as part of the your client’s buying process and not indifference to you personally.
Maintain a Positive Self Image• It is true that you achieve what you
expect to achieve. • Inventory your strengths and
weaknesses.• Spend time daily strengthening both,
but most of your time should be used to build your strengths.
Gain an appreciation for the client
Step-Two - Presentation
Presentation is the way you present yourself to potential clients.
First Impressions
You never get a second chance to make a first
impression.
First Impression Tips• The greatest way to make a positive first impression
is to demonstrate immediately that the other person--not you--is the center of action and conversation.
• Use the name of a new acquaintance frequently.• Follow Dr. Wayne Dyer's advice, offered in his
wonderful book "Real Magic," by "giving up the need to be right."
• Appearance counts.
Build confidence in your selling skills
Clients want you to care about their needs, and they want you to be
competent enough to help them. New clients want to do business with
competent professionals.
7th Habit: Sharpen the Saw
Inspect You
If you want people to listen to you with confidence, dress and carry yourself in the
manner which gives you the right to speak with authority.
Maintain Your Product
Your product serves as a showcase. It is a tangible representation of what the client is buying.
Step-Three - Rapport
Rapport signals a relationship exemplified by agreement, by alignment, or by likeness
and similarity.
Pacing & Leading
Pacing
Pacing means meeting your customer where he or she is, or
matching some part of your customer’s experience
Leading
Leading is doing something different
than your client.
Most selling situations involve a continual process of pacing and leading, back
and forth until a satisfactory outcome is
achieved.
Body Pacing
Static and gesture matching
Verbal Pacing
People have a dominant mode of communication. When you meet a new client they will probably be
thinking and speaking in one of three representational systems: visual, auditory or
kinesthetic.
You can discover which representational system your customers are using by listening to the words they choose to communicate with.
Example:•Visual – I see what you mean.•Auditory - Tell me again what you mean.•Kinesthetic – That idea just feels right to me.
Minimal Cues
Minimal cues are small movements that your customer makes that let you know that something
in their experience has changed.
Examples of Minimal Cues
• Stepping back away from you.• Voice rate shift.• Eye brow raising.• Leaning back away from you.• Facial color change.• Voice tone shift.• Voice volume shift
Step-Four – Determining Needs
The benefit of determining needs is that it builds a bridge between your desire to
lead the selling process and your customer’s desire to lead it.
Greeting
How may I be of service, to you, today?
This is an ideal greeting - it is non-threatening - it does not
lead your client in any specific direction. With service, clients
become receptive to questions.
Discovery
The subject of needs is one you can approach directly. Clients want to
know immediately that your focus is on providing for their needs, and not simply to sell them a home for the
sake of a commission.
Open-Ended Questions• Cannot be answered by a simple yes or no.• They usually begin with what, how and why.• They do not lead the client in any specific
direction.• They help the client discover things.• They create a situation in which the client will
reveal behavioral style.
Close-Ended Questions• They extract simple and specific facts.• They are useful in gaining commitments.• They are useful in gaining feedback during the
conversation.• They can be used to direct the conversation.• They can be used to secure affirmative answers.• They usually begin with who, where, and when?
Transitional Listening
A client’s response to any question provides you with a
transition into a brief discussion of something you need to know.
Solve Client Problems
Providing solutions to customer problems is the primary common ground
between you and the customer … become a
solution provider
Step Five - Time Strategy
How much time do you have to spend with me today?
When your client provides you with an answer to the question
“How much time do you have to spend, with me, today?” you
must follow your client’s response with your reason for asking the
question.
The reason I asked about time is that I want to focus
on what is important to you. I can show or tell you
about … What would you like to
accomplish today?
Reason
What Have You Accomplished?
You have demonstrated a respect for time; what is
important and have established a reason for a
second appointment (if required).
Summary• Step-One: Attitude
• Step-Two: Presentation
• Step-Three: Rapport
• Step-Four: Determine Needs
• Step-Five: Time Strategy
Practice Makes Perfect• Don’t commit to integrating a new idea into your
daily sales process until you fully understand why it’s important to implement.
• Practice the idea for at least 21 days straight.• Give full attention to each idea you are practicing.
Don’t just practice to practice. Have a specific intent.• Evaluate only the sales skill you are practicing at the
time. Stay focused!• Make learning enjoyable.