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You say you’re not a sales person? I disagree. Every person on Earth – 6.7 billion of us – sells something every day.
Selling is about influencing an outcome. Selling is not just business, it’s an essential life skill. You may conciously sell a product, service, or point-of-view. Or you may unconsciously sell you: who you are and what you can do.
Try to avoid it, but you can’t … you WILL sell something in the next 24 hours.
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I’m going to help you understand a way to sell that is simple and easy to remember. It’s based on plain old common sense … and it works.
Here are five things about CM! you need to know:
1. A SMART buyer is your best seller
2. Selling is a four phase cycle
3. Convince Me! – the process
4. Convince Me! – the book
5. Keep on learning
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I’ve made theideamechanic site pretty simple to get around. Sometimes though, when you’re navigating in unfamiliar waters, having a map and a guide can help you from getting lost or running aground.
So tighten your mainsheet, drop the centerboard, and get ready to set sail! Here are five tips for getting around theideamechanic site …
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1. Imaginative strategist
2. Conversational storyteller
3. Demonstration engineer
4. Experience architect
5. Customer advocate
Whether you are an new apprentice, a practicing journeyman, or have achieved the status of master craftsman, you need to focus on and constantly develop these five skills.
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Ask any master craftsman – all will tell you that besides experience and skill, you need the right tool for the job.
Successful convincing happens when you know the process and you know your tools. Convince Me! teaches you the process. Now let’s open the toolbox and learn about your tools: a plan, your story, proof, an experience, and a guarantee. These are your power tools; one tool for each step of the process.
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If you’ve read my two previous posts – Everyone Sells and Convince Me! – you should be starting to get a good feel for what I’m talking about. I’ve helped you realize that you do sell and given you a few ideas to change how you sell.
To begin re-building HOW you sell your product, service, or point-of-view, there’s no better place to start than YOU. You are the foundation. You can have the best materials, the right tools, and strong skills, but to become a master craftsman you need to live and breath these principles.
These are the five principles of convincing:
1. Empathy
2. Trust
3. Logic
4. Emotion
5. Truth
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Are you on Twitter? If not you should think about it. You don’t have to be a rockstar to get people to listen – you just have to have something interesting to say, like @theideamechanic.
You know two people I like to follow on Twitter? @copyblogger and @shepherdfx … they’re amazing!
The good and the bad about Twitter is you only have 140 characters to say what you’re going to say. The bad news is you always seem to have more to say than will fit into 140 characters.
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