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What to Do When Prospecting Feels Impossible
JeffBeals.com
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Jeff Beals
President of Jeff Beals & Associates
consulting and sales training firm
www.JeffBeals.com
+1-402-510-7468
Introduction
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• How fear of the unknown is affecting your clients’ decision-making ability and how to mitigate those fears.
• Best practices for successful prospecting during stressful times.
• The types of messages that resonate with skittish prospects during a period of uncertainty.
• Making your sales plan for the recovery
Overview
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Prospecting Feels Impossible
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Why It Feels So Impossible…
Smallest airline
passenger counts
since 1954
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Why It Feels So Impossible…
14-to-22% of
restaurants may
never reopen
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Why It Feels So Impossible…
BANKRUPTCY!
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Why It Feels So Impossible…
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What we’re seeing now…
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• Clients are riddled with fear
• Business owners/executives are worried about
continued existence of companies
• Individual employees are worried about keeping
their jobs
• Most people are worried about the economic
fallout
• Plus nobody wants the virus!
Fear of the Unknown
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Fear is the most
debilitating emotion in the world.
Fear of the Unknown
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F.U.D. = Fear Uncertainty & Doubt
Fear of the Unknown
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A Definition of Fear:
Fear is an anxious feeling we experience when
we anticipate an imagined event.
Fear of the Unknown
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How do Sales Pros Handle Client Fears?
Fear of the Unknown
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Watch out for “emotional contagion”
Fear of the Unknown
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The only way you’re going to get
out of this crisis is to sell your way
out of it.
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Short-Term Circumstances
vs.
Long-Term Realties
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Your Client Craves Confidence!
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Best Practices
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Best Practices
1. Keep activity levels high
2. Think incrementally: focus on next steps
3. Time blocking
4. Pick up the phone – this is a time when conversations
are more valuable than emailed messages
5. Research prospects before you call them
6. Build new prospect lists. Pull lists from Salesgenie.
Study new markets. Do the longer-term prospecting
research you always wanted to do but never had time
to do.
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Keep Activity Levels in Perspective
Best Practices in Stressful Times
Lower Traffic Volume = Higher Traffic Quality
Prospects you go out and get are higher quality than
those who call in unsolicited.
Business will always be there in some form. You might
have to get creative.
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Miniature Commitments
Best Practices in Stressful Times
• Agreeing to a meeting
• Agreeing to review a proposal
• Agreeing that something needs to be done even if
they do not yet know exactly what that is
• Agreeing to bring a colleague into the discussion
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Miniature Commitments
Best Practices in Stressful Times
ProspectingSigned
Deal
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Relationship Deposits
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Relationship Deposits
Building the Emotional Bank Account
1. Don’t be tone deaf
2. Listen carefully during conversations
3. Have a reason to call – don’t just check in…
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Relationship Deposits
Common Advice:
“Hey, I’m just calling to check in with you and see if
you’re okay. I’m thinking of you and wanted to see how
you’re doing. I know this is a difficult time to make
decisions, so just know that I’m here for you when you do
need our services.”
While this is nice, it’s missing something
important…
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Relationship Deposits
A reason to call!
• The economy and its effects on their business
• How government actions and business incentives
(stimulus package) affect companies
• Real estate “insider information:” trends, happenings and
rumors
• Threats that they might soon face
• Unforeseen or unanticipated opportunities
• Information about their competitors
• Truthful information that is compelling, surprising and
applicable to them
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Relationship Deposits
A Sample Voicemail
“Hi John. I was thinking of you wanted to see how
you’re holding up in these crazy times. You and I talked
about your supply chain concerns before the pandemic.
Well, now we’re seeing many of those concerns
become reality. I’ve talked to many manufacturers who
have come up with some pretty creative solutions. I
don’t know whether these ideas will apply to your
operations, but give me a call, so I can at least tell you
what I learned talking to those other companies.”
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Relationship Deposits
A Sample Voicemail
“Hi Sandra. Hope you’re doing well and getting used to
working at home by now. I was thinking of you and
wanted chat about a couple things. One of those things
is restaurant space. I know you were thinking about
adding a sushi concept to your portfolio. Well, we’ve
been hearing that a huge number of restaurants are not
going to reopen after the quarantine ends. It looks like
there’ll be a lot of space on the market that strong
operators like you can take advantage of.”
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Relationship Deposits
Call to build relationships but always have
a reason, something of value you can
share!
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Your prospects are NOT interested in:
Messaging That Resonates
• Your product
• Your services
• Your company
• How great you are
• How long you have been in business
• Whether you’re accomplished or credentialed
• The fact that your offering is so unique
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Sell VALUE and INSIGHTS instead of
features and benefits.
Messaging That Resonates
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Intel = Insights
Messaging That Resonates
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Insight & Message Development Challenge:
1. Identify and clarify some insights,
compelling and educational things you can
share with prospective clients, so that those
clients are more likely to meet with you and
engage with you.
Messaging That Resonates
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Insight & Message Development Challenge:
2. Meet virtually with other sales professionals in your company and compare language notes. Work together to come up with insights – discussion topics – you can use to open doors that are currently closed.
Messaging That Resonates
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Insight & Message Development Challenge:
3. Once you have those insights, start working on how you will communicate them. What will you say in an email? What would you say if you call someone on the phone? What will you say about these insights once someone agrees to meet with you virtually or in person when the quarantine ends?
Messaging That Resonates
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Economic “Winter”
Your Plan for the Recovery
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Your Plan for the Recovery
Preparing for Economic “Spring”
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Reassess Your 2020 Goals
Blow the dust off your 2020 goals and determine what adjustments are necessary. Do you need to change your action plan in order to make the goals still happen? What is your plan of attack now that some restrictions are being lifted? What will be your plan once we are mostly back to normal?
Your Plan for the Recovery
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Work on Your Target Audience
What new clients are you going to target so that you can take advantage of the market upheaval? What do you know about these people? Now is the time to do prospect research so you’re ready to attack as soon as the time is right.
Your Plan for the Recovery
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Fine Tune Your Message
Think about the messaging you use when prospecting for new clients. Because of the coming churn, do you need to change that messaging at all? Start refining your prospecting messages now so they’re ready to go when you need them.
Your Plan for the Recovery
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Develop Yourself Now
This recent social media post says it all:
“If you ever wanted to work on your project, learn a new skill, read a good book, and the complaint was, "I never had the time," there's really no excuse now.”
Your Plan for the Recovery
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The Need for Urgency
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The Need for Urgency
When the Crisis Begins to End…
Time is your enemy!
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• Prospecting
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Objections
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• Selling to Large Companies
• Prospecting C-Suite Executives
• Social Media & Prospecting
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• Goal-Setting Workshops
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In Closing…
Adversity makes future success possible
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