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Focused Sales Presentations

Focused Sales Presentations

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Aug 7, 2013 By Nick Serba

focused-sales-presentationsWe all are involved in sales in one way or another. You may not define yourself as a sales person, but you are selling your ideas. You are selling your concepts, your beliefs, and you are selling your products or services. There are some basic tenets of sales or influencing people that you should know. If you want to improve your sales figures, your success in selling is in direct proportion to your ability to influence people and the quality of the presentation that you make to that individual. 

 
One of the basic tenets of sales you should keep in mind is that people don’t want what something is, they want what it does. As the famous example goes, nobody wants a quarter-inch drill; what they want is a quarter-inch hole. People want what your product or service does, not what it is.
 
Are you focusing in your presentation, in your communications? Are you focusing on your relationships to your product and services, what it does for the individual, what it does for the business, what it does for their situation? Or are you focusing on what it is so much that they don’t understand what it does?
Last year there may have been a million or more quarter-inch drills sold. Nobody wanted a quarter inch drill, they wanted a quarter inch hole. So are you talking to people about what your product and service is, or about what it does?
 

Filed Under: Sales Activities Tagged With: Communication, Nick Serba, Relevant Benefits, Sales Activities, Sales Strategies

Nick Serba

Nick Serba

Nick Serba has enjoyed a successful career spanning 30 years in Sales, Sales Training, Sales Leadership Training, and Sales Management.  Some of his experiences include working as a General Manager with New York Life, operating numerous entrepreneurial businesses, and, for the last 20 years, serving as a Regional Vice President for LegalShield.

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