Posts Tagged ‘sales tips’
How to Talk to Clients So They Actually Buy: From Meh to Magic. (The Worksheet)
Last week you unlocked employee excitement. You figured out how to make your employees as excited about your business as you are. This week we are going to swap this perspective: how can you become just as excited about your clients? What clients need You’re naturally excited about your product or service – you see…
Read MoreStand Out, Don’t Compete: How Differentiation Wins for Small Businesses. (The Worksheet)
Small businesses require a lot of creativity. Especially in terms of competition and how to stand out. The best way for a small business to do this, is to minimize direct competition, by working on differentiation. How does your business stand out in a crowd? Differentiation creates opportunity Imagine two lemonade stands. Right next to…
Read MoreFeed The Soil, Not The Plant: Client Version. (The Worksheet)
Having a great place to buy makes people want to buy from there. It is not just your employees who thrive in a good environment. Your clients do too. There will always be another version of you: another law firm, another restaurant, another hair stylist, another marketing agency, another everything. It’s three things: value, quality,…
Read MoreWhat you don’t know about… Storytelling 📖
Over the last couple of weeks, we learned about how powerful visuals are in conveying information. On the other hand: what information are we conveying? Small businesses want to talk about what they do and how they do it, but is that what people want to hear? Let’s find out from the expert: Anita Henderson,…
Read MoreWhat you don’t know about… Graphic Design 🎨
Visual communication is effective, fast, and valuable. This much we established last week. A fundamental component of any visual communication is design. But what does that even mean? Can I download some free graphics, commission, and off-the-shelf logo, and use Papyrus font for all my materials? Sure… I could… but I shouldn’t. I sat down…
Read MoreWhat you don’t know about… Online Presence 🖥️
Pretend you own a store. And your business runs from that store. After you get a space, you put your name on the door, and then you go work from home. It seems like a huge waste of resources, right? If you’re not actively managing your online presence, you’re doing just that. I learned this…
Read MoreIt’s Time To Deliver: the Official Meeting of Brand and Value (7/8)🎁
All of the best branding, values, and employees, will eventually come together in your final product. What you do for the client. How you improve your client’s life. You explain all that in your value proposition. If your brand is the promise you make, your value proposition is the product you offer. Value proposition Value…
Read MoreThe fun factor: how to build your customer experience 🥳(5/5)
Benefits aren’t everything: complete your offering with a great customer experience. I am obliged to eat every single day. Since it is something I must do, I am determined to have fun doing it. Once your clients are convinced by your benefits, they still have to work with you on it all. Make sure they…
Read MoreGive the people what they want: the power of personal benefits 🎁 (2/5)
Humans are rational beings. But not too much. Around 95% of our buying decisions happen in the subconscious mind, not the conscious, logical mind, according to Harvard professor Gerald Zaltman. There is a scientific reason: our subconscious mind can process volumes more data than our conscious mind, so while we think we are considering 3-4…
Read MoreAll the Whos That Matter to Your Business: Understand Your Clients and Competitors 🥸 (3/6)
A business is nothing without its clients. And that’s what Forbes puts next in your pitch, suggesting the three next sections as We could summarize all this as the Whos, & why them. Who is a client The worst answer you can give here is “anybody”. Anybody is not your client, but somebody is. Describe…
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