How do you know you’re having a sales conversation with your Perfect Prospect Profile?
Well, first of all, it doesn’t feel like a sales conversation.
It probably feels more like a meeting of minds, sharing wisdom, experience, insights, challenges and testing out scenarios.
There is a free flow of information. Interesting, challenging questions on both sides.
Both parties learn from each other.
Both bring huge value to the table, value that is respectfully acknowledged by both sides.
How many conversations and sales exchanges have you had that fit this description, say, in the last 6 months?
And, why is not every single one of your sales conversations just like this?
Sales Conversations with your Perfect Prospect Profile
The reason why you’re probably the same as every single sales person out there, in that you’re not getting the sales exchanges you want often enough, where you and the buyer are really in flow with each other, has little too do with how great you are a building rapport and everything to do with how closely your new business sales and sales lead generation activities focus on recruiting prospects that fit your Perfect Prospect Profile.
Why Focusing on Lead Generation with Your Perfect Prospect Profile is so Important
The cost of not focusing all your sales lead generation efforts on engaging with your Perfect Prospect Profile is huge.
Failure to do so means you’ll have:
Over extended sales cycles
Trouble maintaining margin
Increase competitor attack
And all of this can be avoided.
Just focus your sales efforts on engaging with your Perfect Prospect Profile
How to Define Your Perfect Prospect Profile
Well, that’s up to you.
But you have to be laser specific. The more specific you can be, the better.
You might want to consider the following as the very basic:
Niche
Identifiable problem
Able to demonstrate a robust and transparent ROI on your solution
Job title
Firm characteristics – family owner/owner/managed/board run/plc/listed
Plus, you can also consider:
Competitive position in their market
Current market share/valuation
Level of ambition
Infra structure
Current usage/suppliers/legacy systems
What’s Next?
Once you’ve absolute clarity on your Perfect Prospect Profile, then that’s the ONLY prospect you pitch to.
No-others.
Sure you might have three different Perfect Prospect Profile.
Perhaps each one serves your Dream Client Profile, your Strategic Client Profile and your Volume Client Profile.
Or, maybe your Perfect Prospect Profile has three version depending on your product range.
Whilst you think about the product range, don’t have a Perfect Prospect Profile for every single product. Look at restricting your Perfect Prospect Profile creation to your three most popular/important products. Think more about product families and build your profile around those. You can find out how to do this by checking out our Leads++ page
Summary: Perfect Prospect Profile
If you know, work to source, and only engage with your Perfect Prospect Profile you’ll make your sales job easier, more simple, and the quality of your sales pipeline will increase dramatically.
The knock on effect:
More accurate sales forecasts.
Higher sales conversion rates.
You’ll be able to do more with less resources – time, money and effort.
Your profile as an industry expert will grow, meaning you’ll be the go -to person in your industry.
You’ll build an address book of merit.
Your value to your prospects will increase hugely.
Plus:
Your prospects will more ready engage with you as your demonstrate your expertise, value and fit with their business.
You will be able to hit the sales trifecta of being able to engage, entertain, educate and enlighten your prospects and customers alike.
You’re scope to offer additional value to your business as you spot trends, fads and customer wants before your scatter gun competitors makes you a strategic asset to any business.
So, next time you feel the urge to chase business that it not in absolute sync with your Perfect Prospect Profile, just remember why you’re working with such a specific customer template.You can get information on How to Identify Your Perfect Sales Prospect by hitting the link.
For more help on identifying your Perfect Prospect Profile check out The Sales Improvement Workshop and the Sales Insight study.
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