Here’s the most interesting aspect of increasing your sales: It’s way more simple than you think. The methods and messages you should use are not to be found in the latest article, book, or video—or any consultant or agency you might hire.
As a buyer, you know you want the truth from sellers. As a seller, you are tempted—and maybe even advised—to bend or hide the truth. It has always been a mistake to do so, but in this age of ridiculously easy customer-to-customer access, it can have immediate, unwanted, and far-reaching negative consequences.
I saw an old term—“single point of failure”—used in a new way today. I’ve always thought of it as an engineering term, reminding me of that one Bay Bridge panel that fell down during the Loma Prieta earthquake in the Bay Area, in 1989, an earthquake that my husband and I experienced for ourselves—it was a whopper! But today, the term was being used to describe a business failure.
There’s an old saying, going back centuries: “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.” One of my very smart clients said he had a mentor who quoted that old saying, but then added, “This is why I always look for thirsty horses.” I’ve been smiling about that ever since.
If you want to increase sales you need to gather and display something I’m calling “Peer Proof” in all of your communications to your prospective buyers. Doing so will mean you can finally compete effectively against all of the companies in your industry that have already figured this out. In other words, if you aren’t
I’m writing this for anyone who owns or runs a company. If that’s you, you weren’t “born” a company owner; you probably came into it after working in some other specialty. Finance, engineering, programming, plumbing, baking . . . whatever. Now you have to make sales. As the owner, you need to know how to sell and how to direct and manage others who sell for you.
Zhivago Partners provides full-service Digital Marketing Management and Revenue Coaching for mid-sized companies.
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