UFI Open Seminar in Europe 2010 - Budapest - Sean McPheat
1. “How To Make It EASY For Your
Prospects & Clients To Say Yes!”
With Sean McPheat
(Managing Director – MTD Sales Training)
www.mtdsalestraining.com
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2. Interesting Question
How would you currently rate the competency
of your sales staff?
A. Excellent – they exceed their targets
B. Good – they meet their targets
C. Below Average – they do not meet their targets
D. Poor Performance – they do not meet their targets
by a long way
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3. Interesting Question
How many hours did you spend in up-skilling
your sales staff in 2009?
A. 12 days+ per person (84 hours)
B. 8-11 days per person (56 – 77)
C. 3-7 days per person (21 – 49)
D. Less than 3 days (<21)
E. 0
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4. The Best Sales Person I’ve Seen...
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5. Sales Person Of The Month
WINNER
46 MONTHS
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6. Top Sales People (and Holly!)....
• Focus & Belief (She believes in what she’s selling & she knows her
outcomes!)
• Attitude (She expects a positive outcome and if she does hear a
“No” it does not put her off for next time)
• Understands needs (my need for a quiet life!)
• Communication & negotiation skills
• Sales process – she’s tried and tested several approaches and has
refined her approach perfectly!
• She uses emotion to sell & understands my “hot buttons”
• She makes the buying decision easy (Especially down the
doughnut isle of the supermarket)
In short, she makes it EASY for me to say YES!
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7. Let’s Take A Look At...
• The DNA Of The Modern Day Buyer
• The Evolution Of Selling And What It Means
To You
• Time To Revisit Your USP’s?
• Is Your Offer Really Compelling?
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9. This Is The Modern Buyer Of Today!
Psst This includes you too!
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10. The Modern Day Buyer...
• Wants “More” For “Less”
• They Want You To Practically Give It Away And
Still That’s Not Enough!
• Has More Choice Than Ever Before
• Can “Research” Quickly & Find Alternatives
• Plays You Off Against Other Alternatives
• Sees How Much They Can Get Your Price Down
• Is More Sales Savvy
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11. The Result? Supply Chain Madness!
You’re all squeezing the life out
of your own margins!
A Thought:
Is it time that you all worked
together in a new model?
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16. Redress The Balance Of Power!
• Review:
– Your sales process
– Your prospects wants
– How they buy from you
– Current skill levels of your people
– Understand the numbers of your business
– Your offer
– Opportunity cost solutions
– Look towards the internet and social media for
positioning and selling power
– Revisit the USP of your industry as a whole and for what
you sell
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18. Time To Reposition Exhibitions?
What makes you more unique, more valuable,
and more visible in the market?
Most USP’s are not USP’s, they’re “givens”
~ DEFINITIONS ~
• being the only one of a particular type; single;
sole
• without equal or like; unparalleled
• very remarkable or unusual
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19. Time To Reposition Exhibitions?
• Repositioning within the industry
• Repositioning how a show is sold
• Is it time that you all worked together?
• Sometimes you just need to be different!
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20. Unique Selling Proposition
EXERCISE
In Pairs, State What Your USP
Is To Your Partner
20 Seconds
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21. USP Or Not USP – That Is The Question!
These are NOT USP’s
• “Our expertise”
• “Our experience”
• “Our reputation”
• “Our pricing”
• “Our levels of service”
• “Our quality”
• “Our performance”
• “Our people”
• “Our speed of response”
• “Our flexibility”
• “Our ability to solve problems”
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22. AUDIENCE POLL
Did You Hear A
UNIQUE SELLING PROPOSITION
Or Not?
• being the only one of a particular type; single;
sole
• without equal or like; unparalleled
• very remarkable or unusual
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23. THE MODEL LAYOUT FOR A USP!
“You get fresh, hot pizza delivered to your
door in 30 minutes or less -- or it's free”
Here’s Why It’s So Powerful:
benefit (fresh), benefit (hot), product (pizza)
delivered to your door (benefit) in 30 minutes
or less (benefit) or it's free (guarantee)
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24. If You’re Not
Different
From The Rest
Then You’re
Invisible!
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25. Action
• Brainstorm different USP’s when you get back
to the office
• Try the BENEFIT, BENEFIT, GUARANTEE USP
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27. Just How Good Is Your Offer?
AUDIENCE POLL
How many of you believe
100% in your offer?
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28. Just How Good Is Your Offer - REALLY?
AUDIENCE POLL
How many of you would be 100% comfortable
in selling your service, show, floor space,
offering etc to your parents/spouse at
FULL PRICE with NO DISCOUNT whatsoever?
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29. Challenges With Your Offer
You have to assume that:
• No one believes you!
• No one trusts what you say!
• They believe a show costs too much
• They don’t like the costs of all of the extras
• Poor communications, training
• There are too many exhibitions
• They don’t like it that visitor attendance is
dropping
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30. So What Could You Offer In Return?
• Make it easy for them to buy!
• “One Stop Shop”
• Help them to Budget their participation
• Make the order process easy there and then
• Avoid charging them after the show
• What guarantees can you offer?
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31. Remember, Your Prospects Want A Magic Pill
QUESTION:
How can you make your offer so compelling that
it has next to ZERO risk in it for your prospects and clients?
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33. Remember There Are 3 Types Of People...
• Those people that WATCH things happen
• Those people that MAKE things happen
• Those people that say “What the *!”$
happened?”
Make THINGS Happen!
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34. Thanks!
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