Create a Set of Standard Sales Materials
Your standard sales materials should consist of the following:
- Introductory e-mail. Craft an e-mail that all salespeople use as part of the selling process.
- PowerPoint Presentation. This 10-15 slide PowerPoint presentation is the core selling tool you use. It should include each of the following:
- Problem You Solve
- Company Successes
- Unique Value Proposition
- Your Unique Approach
- Features and Functionalities of Your Product//Service
- Results That You Have Delivered for Customers
- Other Customers/References
- Sell Sheets. A series of one page (front only or front and back) that digs deeper into your product or service including:
- Summary Sheet. Details your product or service’s value proposition and high level values
- Detail Sheet. Provides additional detail on the features and benefits of your product or service.
- Additional Sell Sheets. Additional sheets that highlight elements of your product or service that customers will need to know.
“Create a level of consistency and efficiency.”
- Standard Proposal and Pricing Sheet. Develop a standard proposal and pricing sheet that can be used for every sales opportunity.
- Supporting Presentations. In the same manner you create supporting Sell Sheets, you may need to develop additional supporting presentations on areas that customers expect additional depth. For example, if you are a technology company, you may be asked about privacy and security enough that it may be worthwhile to create a standard presentation.
- FAQs. Develop the responses to a set of frequently asked questions. This can help you have a standard way to overcome objections by having the organization’s best thought embodied in FAQs.
The goal of these standard materials is to cover 90 percent of the process so you don’t feel like you are reinventing the wheel each time. If you find something that keeps coming up that is not included in your materials, take the time to add it to your standard sales materials.
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