How to Close More Customers, It’s About Win-Win Negotiation

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While negotiating, remember to have in your mindset that “I want to have a win-win scenario.

 

 

How to Close More Customers  Negotiation

Negotiation is the step most sales people, and even customers are often in a hurry to get to.

Yet the sales professionals I know after 30 years of delivering training in this field are not the best at this.

When properly done, this step can help the customer get what they need and allow the salesperson to make a living in a more profitable way. To negotiate, you must have tried to determine the most important way in which a customer wants to pay for or get what they want.

In order to explain what I mean, let me give you a few ideas that you might be able to relate to:

1.  PRICE :

On my first day as a commissioned salesperson, I was told that the first thing a customer is going to ask about is the price.

Although the price is not a secret, you need to get the customer away from the price and sell them value. Let’s face it, if price was the most important factor in obtaining any product or service, the lowest priced item would always be the best seller or most desired.

 

2. DELIVERY TIME:

Timing can sometimes be the biggest issue when someone is buying or signing up for something.

Here are some examples:

  1. Let’s think about getting your house painted.

Often the most important issue for the customer is negotiating a time frame that will work for them. In this case, time frame is not just what day they will be able to start painting your home, but how long it will take.

  1. I met a Marine, who when I asked him why he chose the Marine Corp. over other branches of the military, he told me it was because they could get him enrolled the fastest.

This Marine did not want to wait, so he negotiated when they could sign him up. He enrolled on a Thursday and was at boot camp on a Tuesday.

 

3.  PAYMENTS/CREDIT:

Since the invention of lending, negotiation on payment terms has become one of the most important ways in which customers want to negotiate.

Buying everything from homes, cars, vacation properties, TV’s, computers, and even club memberships has been made easier through the availability of credit. We often see ads that offer their product at a monthly cost, based on low or no interest, or no payments for a period of time.

Too often we will negotiate with the customer who is going to finance what we sell, and then base the negotiations on the price.

Wouldn’t it be easier if you sat down with the customer and developed a reasonable solution that is based on a month payment instead? It will not only make it easier for the customer to understand, but will make it more profitable for you.

If you know that your potential client is going to buy from you by making payments, why not just tell them how affordable it will be per month?

 

There are other variables that will be important to customers when trying to negotiate, but as you can see by the three examples above, once again Step 2 in the process is so important to make you more successful in determining the best way in which to negotiate with a customer.

Next page- Important tips about negotiation  

 

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