Article: Hot Prospects Turn Cold, Build Defenses When You Look Like A Salesperson: Here's A Checklist Of Do's And Don'ts
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Hot Prospects Turn Cold, Build Defenses When You Look Like A Salesperson: Here's A Checklist Of Do's And Don'ts
If you talk or act like a salesperson, you immediately trigger your prospect's sales defenses, which he uses to keep you at a distance. This puts you at a serious disadvantage because it causes your prospect not to trust you. And it may erase your opportunity to ever win that prospect as a new client.
One fundamental difference between education-based marketing and selling-based marketing is the issue of control. Selling-based marketing tries to wrest control away from the prospect. Then, through key questions, the salesperson dominates and manipulates the prospect until the prospect makes the desired commitment.
Education-based marketing does the opposite. It gives up any attempt to control the prospect. Instead, you help your prospect understand his proble...
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