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Sales Guide for Title Companies (Part 2)
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The following can be good sources of information for finding prospects:
• Your office – Sales leads, client records, colleagues, suppliers
• Clients’ offices – Receptionists, their suppliers, newsletters, notices, contacts, moving jobs, annual reports
• Press – Trade journals, local news, clippings service
• Lists – Exhibition attendees, industrial databases, electronic data services, credit raters
• Others – Trade and professional bodies, embassies, chambers of commerce, relatives, friends, internet
Information Sources for Finding Prospects:
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Broad Direct Mail Strategy: Identify prospects buying soon
Tactics: Test run and monitor success percentage by source
Content:
• Address by name, not Sir/Madam
• State main benefit to them
• Quote testimonial or proof
• Highlight key words
• Sign it
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Broad Direct Mail (continued)
Limit to:
• One page
• Five lines per paragraph
• 14 words per sentence
• Avoid – Unconditional giveaways
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Use:
• Letterhead paper
• Centre layout
• Short positive words
• ‘PS’ to prompt immediate action
• Reply card or pre-addressed envelope
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Goal - Fix appointment with decision-maker.
Strategy - Arouse demand for more information.
Tactics –
• Check by phone decision-maker’s name and title
• Use ‘you’ no ‘I’ in letter
• Put yourself in their shoes
• Sign it personally
• Do it outside peak selling time
• Don’t include product details
• Follow-up by phone within a week
Focused Direct Mail
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Use ‘AIDA’ to structure your mail shot:
Attention: Introduce with personalized ‘you’ appeal
Interest: Show how it affects them
Desire: Explain benefits to them
Action: Stimulate their action/confirm your follow-up
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Your target is to speak to the person who decides
Decider: Authorizes budget
Recommender: Manages users
User: Implements and influences
Gatekeeper: Experts and secretaries
Appointments By Phone
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Key steps in the call structure
1.Identify yourself
2.Establish rapport
3.Stimulate interest
4.Qualify wants & needs
5.Ask for appointment
• 6.Overcome objections
• 7.Fix appointment
• 8.Fact-find
• 9.Thank
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Making appointments
Switchboard
• Be warm: Can you help me?
• Verify decision maker’s name, title and address
Secretary
• Control with questions
• It concerns policy regarding X. Is she/he in?
• Do you keep his/her appointments or should I call back later?
• What time would be best?
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Making appointments (continued)PA to MD
• Would you know who decides policy on X?
Decision-maker
• Give full name and check they’re not in a meeting
• Use a hook: I read that you have recently ……
• Match your benefit statement to their job function
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Making appointments by phone
Before the call - prepare:• Activity goals for the day• Opening benefit statements• Likely objections and replies• Best times and places for you
During the call - qualify:• Wants• Authority• Needs• Timescale• Spending power
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Making appointments by phone (continued)
After the call:
• Replace phone on hook last
• Confirm in writing: date, time, place, purpose
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Making appointments – do:
• Make notes
• Be persistent
• Sound confident
• Ask for appointments at 08.45, 11.45, 13.45, 16.15 hours
• Offer alternative times, one specific and one open:
- Are you free 08.45 am Friday ….
- … or is some time next week more convenient?
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• Wait on hold
• Accept: We’ll call you back
• Pause between benefit statement and question
• Talk to purchasing departments
Making Appointments – Don’t:
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Selling by phone
• Follow structure as for appointments
• Build testimonials into benefit statements: ‘Your manufacturers were delighted with us. I’d like to show you why’.
• Test close: How does that sound?
• Close direct: Can we go ahead?
- alternative offer: Can we deliver this month or next?
- minor offer: Can we deliver the extras the same day?
- assumed offer: To whom shall we address the invoice?
• Use enthusiasm
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Avoid
• Pay
• Suggest
• Change
• Sign
• If
• I
Use
• Invest
• Recommend
• Improve
• Approve
• When
• You
Use Positive, Active Language:
Use positive, active language to create the right atmosphere.
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Building rapport in advance of appointment
• Avoid distractions
• Smile
• Relax
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Building rapport during appointment
Make notes, check back and match their personalities:
Words with Tone Example• INSPIRER emotions enthusiastic vital, great• ASPIRER goals direct/concise progress, decide• ENQUIRER facts logical/slow data indicates• ADMIRER empathy warm/open believe, understand
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Objection handling
Reply to possible objections with ‘suppose’ statements. Examples:
No budget:
‘Suppose it paid for itself, you’d be interested, wouldn’t you?’
Too busy:
‘Suppose we fixed a time next month when we’re both free?’
Send me literature:
‘Suppose we saved you 30 minutes’ reading time instead.’
No need to change suppliers:
‘Suppose we gave you better value ….’
Then ask for an appointment without pausing.
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Checklist for making new appointments:
1. Have latest information on their market forces
2. Use network contacts for current grapevine news
3. Read their latest company report and literature
4. Draft benefit statements linked to their strategy
5. Check top PA’s name and title at reception
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Checklist for making new appointments: (continued)6. Ask for the top PA’s help
7. Qualify when key people are accessible
8. Check they are not in a meeting
9. Give them ways to say yes
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Incoming telephone calls
• Have a message pad at hand
• Pick up within four rings
• Write down caller’s name, company, number
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Handling incoming telephone calls
Ask source -
How did you hear of us?
What prompted your enquiry?
Who else is involved in approving this?
What are you looking for?
When would you like to install?
How much are you intending to invest?
Qualify -
Wants
Authority
Needs
Timescale
Spending power
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Incoming sales calls
Sell across range:
‘Our clients are taking advantage of our special offer ….’
Sell up range:
‘Did you know that if you took brand X then you could …’
Sell your uniqueness:
‘We’re the only company who supply U.S.B.s (Unique Sales Benefits) for your needs’
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First visits
You get only one chance to make a first impression.
• Preparation in reception:
• Ensure a positive attitude
• Rehearse call objectives
• Check for evidence of competitors
• Read client literature
Introduction:
• Smile
• Ask about a personal interest
• Ask permission to take notes
• Note names, roles, objectives, time available
• Agree next steps
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Qualify and probeQualify WANTS:
Wants – exactly what are they looking for
Authorities - decision-making process
Needs of their personal and organisational goals
Timescale of their evaluation and implementation
Spend capacity, whose budget and when available
Probe:
Knowledge of applications and competitors:
How much research has been undertaken so far?
Next process stage:
What is the next step?
Previous buying pattern and experience:
What improvements would you like to see?
The operational and cost impact of not improving.
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Identify those involved in decision process
You need to identify all those involved in the decision-making chain.
Distinguish:
Role - Purpose of job
Responsibility - Main function of job-holder
Authority level - Sign-off limits
Define if active or passive role
Active = improver of status quo
Passive = keeper of status quo
Check any committee involved in the decision:
Chairperson, agenda, meeting dates, to whom it reports
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Categorize the chain of command
When making contact, work from the highest level downwards, from Authority to User. Then return to Authority and
Recommender together.
1. Authority - Authorises and signs off
2. Recommender - Approves
3. Influencer- Offers specialist advice (Make their job easy!)
4. User - Hands-on implementer
Gatekeeper - filters out supplier contacts. (Avoid them!)
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Personality types
• Inspirers
• Aspirers
• Enquirers
• Admirers
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Personality types - Inspirer
• Driven by -people, own prestige, company mission
• High on -interaction, expression, intuition, assertion
• Low on -caution, detail, facts, figures
• Wants -acclaim
• Appeal to -self-image, quality, innovation
• Method -listen, enthuse
• Office -personal symbols and pictures
• Hands -in front
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Personality types - Aspirer
• Driven by - goals, own objectives, company effectiveness
• High on - assertion, control, direction, pressure
• Low on - caution, detail, expression, time
• Wants - results
• Appeal to - productivity, personal gain
• Method - cost-benefits, options
• Office - achievement symbols
• Hands - behind head
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Personality types - Enquirer
• Driven by - goals, own recognition, company efficiency
• High on - caution, planning, facts, logic, time
• Low on - expression, assertion, interaction
• Wants - justification
• Appeal to - cost-saving, curiosity
• Method - market research, comparisons
• Office - graphs, neat paperwork
• Hands - on chin
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Personality types - Admirer
• Driven by - people, own recognition, company standards
• High on - caution, listening, rapport, time
• Low on - assertion, control, pressure, change
• Wants - security
• Appeal - reliability, low risk
• Method - market trends, testimonials
• Office - people pictures, untidy papers
• Hands - over mouth
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Dealing with the personality types
Inspirers - prefer to talk and to enthuse
Recognize their successes and their visions
Aspirers - prefer directness and efficiency
Stress opportunities and fast results
Enquirers - prefer options with supportive detail
Give a logical approach and time to think
Admirers - prefer solutions with proof statements
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