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Do you truly believe that your company's products and services will help your prospects? Have you ever thought, "I know I could find ways to help (company name) if I could just get (prospect name) to talk to me for 20 minutes!"

Why is it so difficult to convince prospects to schedule time to talk with us? How (specifically) has your company helped its customers?

A3: Some of my customers have seen their sales DOUBLE in as little as eight months.

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Do you truly assume that your company's products and services will help your prospects? Have you ever thought, "I know I could find ways to help (company name) if I could just get (prospect name) to talk to me for 20 minutes!"

Why is it so difficult to convince prospects to schedule time to talk with us? There are two main answers to this question. First, dozens (or even hundreds) of salespeople may be quiz for your prospects' time. If prospects gave everyone who asked the time they ask for, they would never have time to get any work done!

Second, chance are that your prospects are not just sitting only a step waiting for salespeople to contact them. They are focused on their own (business and personal) objectives, issues and concerns. When you contact them, you need to find some way to fret through this "mental clutter", grab their attention, and focus it on what you are saying.

This makes developing an effective "elevator pitch" the single most important step in sales prospecting. in line with all, what good is it to have fabulous solutions to problems if you can't get the people who have the problems to talk to you? Plus, how many times a day are you asked, "What do you do for a living?" How many prospects (and referrals) might you uncover if you had a highly effective and intriguing make up to that rolls right off your tongue?

The concept arrested an elevator pitch is simple

Imagine you are riding in an elevator. The doors open and one of your top prospects steps into the elevator. You now have a very resume (thirty to sixty second) opportunity to introduce yourself and convince your prospect that they need to have a longer conversation with you. What are you going to say?

To be effective, your elevator pitch must differentiate you from all the other salespeople who contact your prospects, and break through your prospects' mental throng and grab their attention. The best way to head into to develop an effective elevator pitch is by considering the following questions:

1. Who are your target prospects? What do they do? What job titles do they hold? What vertical markets are they in?
   
   
2. How will your products and services help your prospects? How will their lives be different by and by they work with you?
   
   
3. What are the quantified impacts (dollars or percentages and time frames) that have been produced by your company's products and services? How (specifically) has your pal helped its customers?

Q1: Who are your target prospects? What do they do? What job titles do they hold? What vertical markets are they in?

A1: My target prospects are assigned task owners, executives, and managers. since I indent sales performance issues, and these issues occur in all vertical markets, I do not focus on specific vertical markets.

Q2: How will your products and services help your prospects? How will their lives be different subsequent to they work with you?

A2: My products and services help my customers end the frustration of 80/20 sales team performance, where 20% of salespeople produce 80% of sales.

Q3: What are the quantified impacts (dollars or percentages and time frames) that have been produced by your company’s products and services? How (specifically) has your third string helped its customers?

A3: Some of my customers have seen their sales DOUBLE in as little as eight months.

Once you have answered all three questions, conspiracy your answers to create an elevator pitch

Here is an example based upon the preceding information:

"I help projection owners, executives, and managers end the frustration of 80/20 sales team performance (where 20% of salespeople produce 80% of sales). In fact, some of my customers have seen their sales DOUBLE in as little as eight months!"

If you have never measured the quantified impacts of your company's products and services, that's OK - it is a new concept for many salespeople and companies. However, it is crucial that you conglomerate some quantified impact information as soon as possible! Why? being nothing breaks through a prospect's mental throng with like quantified impacts!

Here are several questions you can ask yourself and your customers to define quantified impacts for your company's products and services:

1. What business problems is your bench especially good at solving? (Make a comprehensive list - it will provide a useful outline for your conversations with customers.)
   

   
   

2. How have you or your comradeship helped a customer in a way that was unusual or especially valuable? In other words, when have you or your consortium really been "a hero" in a customer's eyes?
   
   
3. What (specific dollar value or percentage) increase in revenue or reduction in expenses can the customer pal up with with each identified example of "unusual value"? Over what time frame was this value delivered?

If you want to pump up your sales prospecting success rate, develop a truly jussive elevator pitch. Make sure your elevator pitch identifies your target prospects, how they will benefit from using your company's products and services, and one or more examples of quantified impacts that you (or your company) have historically produced for other customers.

A properly designed elevator pitch will help you stand out from other salespeople, fate through your prospects' mental clutter, and grab their attention. These are crucial first steps to convincing prospects to schedule time for more in-depth conversations!

Copyright 2005 -- Alan Rigg

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