“If you don’t have a process for selling you’re at the mercy of your buyer’s process for buying.”
One of the biggest challenges for #startups selling to the enterprise have is keeping control through the sales process.
As a startup, when we’re selling a new product, knowing your sales process is crucial to landing your next customer.
Why?
Because your prospects don’t know how to buy your product.
🤷♀️ 🤷♂️ It’s new, and they’ve never bought anything like it before. Sure, your prospects know how to order new laptops and renew their CRM subscription. But they don’t know how to buy your product. 🤷🏽♀️ 🤷🏽♂️
The challenge is that most startups sell products that replace spreadsheets… or manual process… or Sharepoint… some antiquated system that was installed around the same time as Windows NT…
That means that it’s our job as sellers to lead our prospect through the sale, and that starts with the next call.
Remember that your prospects included, want to be led. This is your opportunity to take control of the sale.
♻️ This video shows you a framework I developed years ago that work a charm every time, in every sales call. ♻️
Yes, really.
It’s called Confirm-Ask-Explore.
✅ Confirm: Start every call recapping the last conversation or new developments that have come up since the last call.
Then confirm the purpose and intended out come of the meeting.
✅ Ask: This is the centerpiece of your meeting — discover new information by asking questions. Showing your product and asking how the prospect could see themselves using it – how it solves the problems and helps them achieve their business objectives.
✅ Explore: Always leave time to talk about next steps — the next meetings with whom, how they’ll share that sample data file and who’s responsible for getting it to you, who else should be involved in the process going forward.
Always leave every meeting with clear next steps – a mutual action plan. 🔜
Follow this structure and you’ll nail every sale call every time. Yes, really.
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BTW… If you want some help building more structure into your startup’s sales process, I’d like to help.
🚀 Next week, I’m running a FREE Sales Masterclass for #B2B startup founders & CEOs.
🚀 I’ll teach the core frameworks and systems that every B2B startup needs to implement to achieve a repeatable, scalable sales process.
🚀 Plus, we’ll do a diagnostic of your startup’s sales process so that you can see exactly where to focus on building repeatable systems in the next 3 months.
