Marketing Tips to Attract More Prospects for Increase Sales
Marketing is the ability to attract prospects to your front door. Unfortunately, many in business confuse marketing skills with selling skills within what is called the sales process.
The following 5 marketing tips may help you begin to not only distinguish yourself from others, but actually secure that first appointment, that leads to that second one and that concludes in increase sales.
Tip #1: Effective marketing is about identifying the pain within your prospect\'s current situation. You must tell them what is not working. To do this requires a good understanding of business performance and may be industry specific. So take the time to research your prospects. Also, the prospects must acknowledge the pain. This usually happens by your observations of all those non-verbal behaviors or cues.
Tip #2: Describe how it could be. You must tell them a solution that would stop their pain. Ask open-ended questions to show them the possibilities when the right solution is presented. Paint a very vivid picture with your words.
Tip #3: Determine why they have not solved this problem. Again, by asking open-ended questions you will learn the how come. Usually, if you are an expert in your profession, you will already know why.
Tip #4: Provide a proven approach. What does the prospect need to do to solve this pain? Here you subtly share your approach to curing this pain. Again observing body language and understanding neuro-linguistic programming will help you.
Tip #5: Offer a call to action. Now is your time to show that you can help them. The use of testimonials is a great tactic during this interaction along with a complimentary or free offer.
These 5 simple tips may help you increase sales and keep your funnel full of prospects. Remember, these tips should be aligned to marketing plan within your strategic plan so that you actions are always 100% pointed toward your desired results.
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Leanne Hoagland-Smith, M.S. is a speaker and national business coach who has written hundreds of articles with a focus on leveraging human capital for transformational change by developing results driven leadership in people, teams and organizations.
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