Jul 2, 2018
Customers don't want to be sold to. However, they do want to
know about businesses that offer solutions to their problems.So how
can you, as a business owner, craft your marketing and sales
messages in a way that resonates with your prospective customers
and gets them to take action? Through storytelling!
I’m joined by leader, speaker, and Vice President of Products at
Liquid Web, Chris Lema. Chris is a master storyteller with a story
for every scenario. He shares a few with us in this episode and
they will certainly change the way you think about sales
pitches.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
- Why most communication is forgotten within an hour and what you
can do about making your message resonate
- If you improve memorability regarding your message, you’ll grow
your business by simply doing that
- Attaching a new idea to a previous idea is how ideas and
stories resonate with people. That’s why it’s important to tap into
preexisting stories and ideas in order for your idea to stick
- The importance of storytelling in motivating others, like your
employees or customers, to take action
- When it comes to crafting your marketing message and the copy
on your website, where can you find the appropriate stories to
tell?
- Always collect stories. Even if you have no idea how you’re
going to use them; collect them
- What is the bridge framework and how can you use it to make
more sales?
- You have to tell the story of pain in order to connect with
customers who have a similar pain and who are looking for a
solution
- Why you shouldn’t worry about emphasizing the pain in your
sales message because with the right audience, that message will
resonate
- Collect data from your customers by asking questions about
them, their families, their work, etc. in order to craft your sales
pitch
- How “marinating in the problem space” aka listening to the
customer’s problems in order to tailor your message to their
problems, will help you make more sales
Resources Mentioned:
Carol Dweck – Mindset
Contact Information:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/chrislema
Blog: www.chrislema.com
Chris's Leadership Blog
courses.chrislema.com
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