December 14, 2005

Effective Copywriting 110 What If

What Are The Pitfalls Of A "What If" Approach?

 

"What if I could demonstrate how you could save money in spite of not cutting down your daily expense?”

 

"What if I tell you that you can enhance your market share in 3 months time?”

         

"What if I can make you lose weight in no time?”

 

Now what if you are a prospective consumer who has already heard these “phony” statements before. Do you at all think you will be motivated enough to buy?

 

Scheming selling practices are rarely successful when it comes to dealing with customer opposition, and they really have no position in the world of proficient selling.

 

The genuine method is to address your prospect's opposition during the sales process itself. This means soliciting the right questions early on and customizing your product or service to solve their problem.

 

It is true that many people will have objection to buying your stuff. The best way out of this condition is to inquire about their real needs, trying to gauge their trouble and offering them a product or service that will actually benefit them. And for that, you need to put in a good amount of time on them.

 

You need to ask first-rate questions that make your client think. This may sound very easy; but in reality, it is very complicated because challenging questions are hard to ask. Many sales people recognize these types of questions as personal and often imagine that their customers will not be enthusiastic to answer them.

 

What's significant to remember is that most people ask tough questions and as a consequence have slight or no uncertainty in responding to them. In fact, it will raise your position in their eyes.

 

You can ask questions like:

 

  • What are your short-term goals?
  • How do you intend to accomplish these objectives?
  • What confrontations are you experiencing in reaching these objectives?

Your basic objective out of this conversation would be to find out what problem the prospect is facing and how you and your product or service can solve it. 

 

Let’s not run away from the truth. Buyers today are much more complicated than they were ever before, and in all probability, they have heard every line similar to whatever you want to say. And they loathe people who use clichéd and traditional lines or manipulative approaches.

 

Most people articulate certain objections about making a buying decision. Thus sales are closed because your buyer sees the worth in your product or service or because you have proved yourself as a specialist who can assist them resolve a problem.

 

Just asking "What if I could" is not a successful advance. It’s clichéd and hardly works nowadays.

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