Make a Fortune Selling to Women. Connie Podesta
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Название: Make a Fortune Selling to Women

Автор: Connie Podesta

Издательство: Ingram

Жанр: Маркетинг, PR, реклама

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isbn: 9781613391648

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СКАЧАТЬ sign riders for real estate agents, brochures at the doctor’s office, magazine ads, movie posters, restaurant menus, even labels on some of your favorite products in your grocery and retail stores! It’s a fast and effective way to take people from PAPER to online resources—and it’s evolving amazingly fast. Smart sales pros are keeping up!

      And if you’re selling to WOMEN? Studies show that women are RARELY EVER more than five feet from their phone. Think about that one for a minute. Their cell phone is almost glued to their hand 24/7. So making it easy for them to connect via their phone is HUGE.

      Throughout the book you’ll note that communication is a key part of what will propel you to be successful as a sales professional, not just today but in the years to come. Conversely, those who are UNWILLING to keep up won’t stand a chance. I always tell people who are stuck in “the way things always were” that successful SALES requires an imagination going far beyond what the customer can imagine. Status quo? Move aside! Change? Bring it on! Technology? No problem! You’ve got this!

      These are exciting times to live in. But it’s all about your CHOICE of perspective. You can be FEARFUL of change and fight to keep things as they are. Be grumpy and complain about innovative new ideas. Dig your heels in, and fight to keep things status quo. And then watch as your sales drop, customers change over to your competitor, and you are left wondering what happened.

      Or how about this INSTEAD? Be absolutely FEARLESS in your quest to learn new skills. Technologies. Strategies. Ideas. Sales opportunities. We have more information in one Sunday’s New York Times than our grandparents had available in a lifetime. Wow! So, want to be at the top of your game in your industry? Grab every opportunity to stand out from the crowd.

      If there was ever a time to differentiate yourself as a major player and a force to be reckoned with, it is now.

      Are you ready to out-perform the competition? Out-think old ideas? Out-shine past performance? Out-maneuver anyone who says it can’t be done?

      Then you are ready to take SALES to a whole new level! Plus, you have a winning attitude worth its weight in gold.

      So? Ready to get down to the nitty-gritty of what women really want when it comes to SALES? Let’s do this!

       WHAT WOMEN WANT

      FIVE WAYS TO CLOSE MORE SALES WITH WOMEN

       Ask Yourself:

      1 Based on your experiences, what do you think describes the sales process a woman is looking for?

      2 What percentage of sales would you guess are influenced by women?

      3 A woman walks into your office or store wearing sweatpants and a torn T-shirt, and has three kids in tow. What’s your gut response?

      4 True or false: with a woman, you’ve got a better chance of convincing her to buy if you emphasize the “soft” benefits of your product rather than the “hard” details of how your product compares to the competition.

      5 What is it about your products or services that make them attractive to women? Is your product so strong that women will buy it regardless of who is selling it?

      6 Women like to talk during the sales process. So when you’re selling to a woman, what types of things do you talk about to get her to feel comfortable? The weather? Your kids? Other customers? Personal information from your life? Or just the product?

      7 Think about the last time you weren’t able to close a sale with a female customer. What do you think were the exact reasons the sale fell through?

      When you’ve finished reading this chapter, think about these questions again and see whether your answers are different.

       NOW, let’s get down to it!

      If you’re a man, I bet you’re thinking that this chapter alone could be worth the price of the book—and you might just be right. Figuring out what women (and men) WANT has been an interesting project of mine for decades! The good news is that there are definitely specific keys to understanding both men and women that will help you be more successful during the sales process.

      If you’re a woman, you probably know what women want in a PERSONAL relationship, but you may not have a CLUE as to what they want as BUYERS. Sure, you’ve BEEN a BUYER, so you’ve got this, RIGHT? But let me ask you something: have you ever STEPPED BACK during a shopping experience and ANALYZED how and why you did what you did? It’s hard to SEPARATE your personal experiences into general rules without talking to lots of other women about what they look for when they’re buying. But if you take all that information and boil it down to the BOTTOM LINE, you come up with one of the most important differences between selling to men and selling to women…

       With a man, you can concentrateon closing the sale. With a woman,you had better concentrate onCOMMITTING to the relationshipbefore concentrating on the sale.

      With her, it is critical that you COMMIT to the entire sales process, rather than focusing on just the end result. Remember, women are more about the experience, and men are more about the results.

      In other words, the typical aggressive sales techniques that have been the core and mainstay of sales training for decades will probably turn her off, which will then turn her away from you!

      So are you ready to enter the fascinating and often complex mind of a female shopper? Then let’s start with some great news.

      Most books on selling to women spend at least the first chapter or two 1) giving you case study after case study of companies that learned the hard way that they had to advertise, market, and sell differently to women, and 2) offering lots of statistics, charts, and graphs supporting right and left-brain theories of communication, the history of gender differences, and the growth of women’s purchasing power.

      So after the first hour of reading, do you have even one single thing you can use tomorrow to help you make more money and be more successful? Since I trust that you are smart and already know that women are critical to the success of your business or career, I thought you might like me to sum up all of that information in a few sentences. Then we can get right down to the business of helping you commit to and close more deals, make more money, and acquire the tools necessary to give your customers exactly what they want!

      We can begin by eliminating at least twenty pages of statistics, numbers, data, and research. There is only one statistic you really need to know, so let’s repeat it one more time:

       85 percent of all consumer buyingdecisions are made or influenced byWOMEN.

      How’s THAT for a STAT? No other statistic is necessary in order for you to be motivated, inspired, and determined to do what it takes to dramatically increase your “Sales to Women” percentage. Women are either buying for themselves, buying for someone else, or telling someone else what to buy; 85 percent of the time something gets sold! WOW! Now you СКАЧАТЬ