Before you make any attempt to respond to a lead, or to qualify a lead, or certainly to sell something, you must remember that he is a person just like you.
Who is he? Where did he come from? What challenge is he struggling with right now? What’s going on in his personal life?
People, not prospects
Sales professionals must not think of the people around them as simply prospects or leads or people who have money.
If we approach them as humans, we can either persuade them to make a decision or help them persuade themselves to make a decision.
We can do that by personalizing outreach and personalizing each contact we have with them so that we’re providing value and helping them to solve problems.
Connecting with people
I recently reached out to a lead and we connected to determine whether The Sales Evangelist Hustler’s League might be a good option. We spent some time getting to know each other. I learned that she had left sales to raise a family and was returning now that her children were grown.
Ultimately we determined that this semester of Hustler’s League might not be a possibility for her.
A couple of days later, she emailed me to tell me a story about how our conversation impacted her family. Her son, who has generalized anxiety disorder, suffered his worst-ever panic attack, and my friend and her husband had to go meet him to drive him home.
On the ride home, she told him about our conversation. He pointed out that I had made her feel involved in The Sales Evangelist even though she hadn’t joined. It prompted her son to consider contacting the people who operate a podcast that he enjoys.
She pointed out that our interaction gave him hope.
I share this, not to toot my own horn, but to illustrate that the people we’re dealing with have sons, daughters, dogs, cousins, and challenges.
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