On Sales Resistance…

Ziya G. Boyacigiller

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A New Paradigm

excerpt from High Probability Selling

1. What is selling?

2. What is your objective when you sell?

3. What do you do to get the prospect to buy?

4. What will you do to get the prospect to buy?

5. How do your prospects feel when they’re being sold?

6. How do you feel when you’re selling?

7. How do you feel when you don’t make the sale?

8. How do you feel at the end of a selling day in which you have made no sales?

9. In society is there a trust or distrust of salespeople?

10. What causes sales resistance?

1. What is selling?• Fulfilling of needs• Providing service• Pointing out benefits• Art of persuasion

2. What is your objective when you sell?3. What do you do to get the prospect to buy?4. What will you do to get the prospect to buy?5. How do your prospects feel when they’re being sold?6. How do you feel when you’re selling?7. How do you feel when you don’t make the sale?8. How do you feel at the end of a selling day in which

you have made no sales?9. In society is there a trust or distrust of salespeople?10. What causes sales resistance?

1. What is selling?2. What is your objective when you sell?

• Getting the prospect to buy• Making money• Closing sale• ….• GETTING THE PROSPECT TO BUY

3. What do you do to get the prospect to buy?4. What will you do to get the prospect to buy?5. How do your prospects feel when they’re being sold?6. How do you feel when you’re selling?7. How do you feel when you don’t make the sale?8. How do you feel at the end of a selling day in which

you have made no sales?9. In society is there a trust or distrust of salespeople?10. What causes sales resistance?

1. What is selling?2. What is your objective when you sell?3. What do you do to get the prospect to buy?

• Educate them• Promise them good service• Get to know them• Point out the benefits of dealing with me/company• Convince them• Pressure them• Put down competition• Act like I’m a friend

4. What will you do to get the prospect to buy?5. How do your prospects feel when they’re being

sold?6. How do you feel when you’re selling?

1. What is selling?2. What is your objective when you sell?3. What do you do to get the prospect to buy?4. What will you do to get the prospect to buy?

• Anything• Whatever it takes• Scare them• Manipulate• Con• Stretch the truth• Lie• Be insincere and unauthentic• Be whatever they want me to be

5. How do your prospects feel when they’re being sold?

6. How do you feel when you’re selling?7. How do you feel …

1. What is selling?2. What is your objective when you sell?3. What do you do to get the prospect to buy?4. What will you do to get the prospect to buy?

5. How do your prospects feel when they’re being sold?

• Resistant• Suspicious• Resentful• Scared• Confused• Hostile• Like their intelligence is being insulted• Pressured • Vulnerable• Abused

6. How do you feel when you’re selling?7. How do you feel

1. What is selling?2. What is your objective when you sell?3. What do you do to get the prospect to buy?4. What will you do to get the prospect to buy?5. How do your prospects feel when they’re being sold?

6. How do you feel when you’re selling?• Scared• Vulnerable• Like the prospect is in charge• Not good • Lacking in self-respect• Abused• Desparate• Anxious• Angry

7. How do you feel when you don’t make the sale?8. How do you feel at the end of a selling day in which

you have …

1. What is selling?2. What is your objective when you sell?3. What do you do to get the prospect to buy?4. What will you do to get the prospect to buy?5. How do your prospects feel when they’re being sold?6. How do you feel when you’re selling?

7. How do you feel when you don’t make the sale?• Lousy• Hurt• Rejected• Frustrated• Resentful• Like a failure• angry

8. How do you feel at the end of a selling day in which you have made no sales?

9. In society is there a trust or distrust of salespeople?10. What causes sales resistance?

1. What is selling?2. What is your objective when you sell?3. What do you do to get the prospect to buy?4. What will you do to get the prospect to buy?5. How do your prospects feel when they’re being sold?6. How do you feel when you’re selling?7. How do you feel when you don’t make the sale?

8. How do you feel at the end of a selling day in which you have made no sales?

• Like a failure• There has to be a better way to make a living• Vulnerable• Worthless• Stressed• Beat-up• Drained

9. In society is there a trust or distrust of salespeople?10. What causes sales resistance?

1. What is selling?

2. What is your objective when you sell?

3. What do you do to get the prospect to buy?

4. What will you do to get the prospect to buy?

5. How do your prospects feel when they’re being sold?

6. How do you feel when you’re selling?

7. How do you feel when you don’t make the sale?

8. How do you feel at the end of a selling day in which you have made no sales?

9. In society is there a trust or distrust of salespeople?

• Distrust of course

10. What causes sales resistance?

1. What is selling?2. What is your objective when you sell?3. What do you do to get the prospect to buy?4. What will you do to get the prospect to buy?5. How do your prospects feel when they’re being sold?6. How do you feel when you’re selling?7. How do you feel when you don’t make the sale?8. How do you feel at the end of a selling day in which you have made

no sales?

9. In society is there a trust or distrust of salespeople?10. What causes sales resistance?

• Pressure• Past experiences• Insincerity• Begging

• Selling

SELLING CAUSES RESISTANCE.

And, every attempt to mask the selling objective causes

more resistance.