Give up too quickly and you’ll miss an opportunity to dispel your client’s concerns. If you view the objection as a buying signal, you’ll create an opportunity to collaborate with the customer.
On today’s episode of The Sales Evangelist, Jim Jacobus shares his experience with objections and explains why sales professionals must learn to handle “no” if they want to succeed.
Objections create opportunity
Customers often object to price without realizing their concerns might actually lie elsewhere.
Objections give us an opportunity to ask questions and identify what their true objections are. Is the payment too high? Is it outside of their budget? Is it truly too expensive?
Objections create dialogue which provides clarity.
Objections require education
Most sales people give up too quickly because they have never been taught to handle objections.
Inexperienced salespeople will address objections by immediately discounting the price. Very often, though, the price wasn’t the true problem.
Honor the objection, clarify it, and then respond to it.
When the client presents an objection, you have to respond as quickly and unemotionally as you would if he asked your birthday.
Don’t flinch. Get good at responding to objections.
Objections help you prioritize
Three possibilities exist in any transaction: great price, great quality and great service. You can have two, but you can’t have all three.
Objections determine which two are most important to your customer. If your customer is less concerned with service, you’ll adjust your presentation to focus on quality and price.
When sellers and buyers are on the same page, the relationship becomes collaborative instead of subservient.
Each party gets to decide today whether to do business with the other.
Resiliency counteracts “no”
“No’s” are part of sales.
If you can handle objections, you’ll develop the ability to bounce back at the highest level when the stakes are high.
If someone says no to listing a house with you, and it keeps you out of the game for two weeks, the agent that bounced back the same day will be more productive than you are. She’ll sell more.
If you can’t learn to handle adversity and objections, you don’t belong in sales.
If you learn to handle objections, the second part of the process is turning “no” to “yes.”
Handling objections is your greatest opportunity to demonstrate your expertise and your competence.
Episode resources
Understanding how to overcome objections enables you to provide tremendous value to the customer.
It is possible to learn to address, overcome, and even prevent objections.
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