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5 Step Sales Process Hypnosis V3 PDF
5 Step Sales Process Hypnosis V3 PDF
Step Sales
Process
An NLP sales model
developed for
Hypnotherapist
The Five Step Sales Process
Introduction
The five step sales process is powerful and proven sales methodology. It
equips the trained salesperson with a simple and systematic tool set that
can be adopted to suit any given sales experience.
This methodology instills within even the freshest face on your sales force
an intuitive characteristic. The sales person will better than ever before
understand exactly were they are positioned throughout the sales
interaction and be confidently prepared for the next step in making the
sale.
Enjoy using the 5 Step Sales Process. When used correctly and practiced
often it will make your sales fun and easy and negates the need to be a
hard closer.
One of the reasons why many people think salespeople as being pushy is
because of the image that a salesperson is the type that does not listen. Or
just talking over the top of people and not listing to what the concerns are,
they just want to get the sale at all costs.
The major reason why people feel uncomfortable about selling is because
they have an image of a salesperson that is that kind of crass, unfeeling
person.
The fact is, that peoples concerns have changed in response to the
salesperson and selling. Fortunately, there is a new discipline that allows
the salesperson to be more effective in selling.
The word comes from a Norwegian, “Selje”, and means “to serve”. The
word “sell” come from the verb “to serve”. So selling is really serving.
The type of selling in this course is about serving: it is not just about
selling, not just about jamming a product down someone's throat, as it
may end up as a sales. It requires you to listen to the client, rather than
trying to sell him without listening. The idea is to listen to them before
trying to sell anything. The key to selling is listening, and by listening
you serve. When a sales person actually listens to someone, they serve
him or her.
It is important to point out that there is a need to be able to see that what
you're selling is valuable.
The level of rapport I'm talking about may be more than you thought. To
master the skill of developing rapport, it's important to learn the abskill of
gaining “instant” rapport with anyone.
I went to the helpdesk and found two customer service personnel engaged
in domestic warfare with a queue of at least 60 irate passengers. I was not
going spend the night in L.A!
If you practice the skills you'll develop the ability to achieve instant
rapport with anybody.
I had just finished doing some training on rapport and I was having lunch
with one of my students. We were going to a restaurant for lunch, and I
had roughly half an hour before an afternoon appointment when we
arrived at the restaurant. The girl behind the counter looked at the
schedule, and advised the table would be at least 20 minutes.
I said to myself, it's time to build rapport. Looking at my friend, I saw him
match and mirror her, so I decided to see what would happen.
The bases of rapport are that when people are like each other, they like
each other. When people are not like each other, they don't like each
other. When you like someone, you're willing to assist him or her in
achieving whatever he or she wants.
Speed of processing
Have you ever noticed people tend to adopt a certain speed of movement?
They move at a certain speeds. It has to do with how they process
information, whether they process it visually, in an auditory way or
kinaesthetically.
That means that if you’re meeting with someone who is highly visual for
example, and you're not quite there, sit up in your chair, breathe from the
top of your lungs, and be excited. Or at least act in a way that matches
what they're doing.
On the other hand, if you’re meeting with someone who is more auditory,
you want to slow down a bit and moderate your voice.
You change your voice tone so that it matches theirs, and really “get a
sense of it”.
Mirroring
Voice
A further element is to match their voice: the voice, tempo, treble (quality
of their voice), and volume.
You can also match their key words. Perhaps they often say, “actually”.
You can use it in a sentence several times to say it back to them.
Breathing
Chunk size
Of course, the first and second step will be going on at the same time. You
can be establishing rapport at the same time as you ask questions.
I don't mean you need to ask only one or two questions, I mean, ask
enough questions until you can see what the customer will buy. Ask them
questions that are relevant to what they are going to buy.
Interested Vs interesting
You enjoyed the show, but would notice that you were not much of a friend
of his because he was too much. He never seemed interested in you. The
problem with the salesperson of yesteryear was that he didn't listen. He
didn't seem as though he was interested, even though he might have been.
It is interesting and you should know that roughly 80% of people you come
across regarding sales, have already made a purchase in their mind’s eye.
In order to agree to see you or to come into your office, they must have
already made internal representation of having your product or service.
They must imagine having bought or signed up.
When I go and talk to people, they will tell me the most outrageous things.
I can run into somebody in an industry, who is in any kind of business,
and I will ask him or her what his gross sales are and what his profit
margin is, how is he going, and he will tell me!
You will want to put together a list of questions for your products. Get
your questions lined up. I'm really interested in business: I'm interested in
all kinds of business. So when I meet someone in the street, and they say,
well I am in this business or that business, I will ask what is the costs of
you goods, and what is your profit. Are you profitable, are you making
money, and how many hours per day do you work. I am personally
interested in what they are doing.
Are they happy with the your life and the results you are getting?
How much time do you spend working on your weight or trying to stop
smoking?
What would happen to you once you are in charge of your life and
unconscious mind?
When you're interested, and when you’ve achieved good rapport, the buyer
will forgive almost anything. That is not to say that you should do almost
anything, but the truth is that the buyer will forgive almost anything.
I have actually seen a salesperson who was interested, and they would say
things like, “I don't want to pressure you to do this, especially if you're
unsure you want this, but I think it is such a good thing for you to do”, and
they go out and put heavy pressure on them and the client buys.
So the first two steps are getting into rapport and asking questions. Be
interested, and theoretically the buyer will forgive almost anything.
In addition, while you're asking questions about your client, you will want
to ask them “Have you ever bought anything like this before, did you
really like it”?
What does this question do? You get your client making internal
representation of having bought something like what you're selling. Once
they have internal representation of something they bought in the past
(and especially if they liked it), then you can anchor it.
First, ask yourself, how is this possible that they don't have it now? Is
there anything that prevents them from having it? Then ask:
In addition, you will want to discover their mental program and values.
At this time, you will want to ask their direction, frame of reference,
finances and related products. In addition, you will probably want to
know their major criteria for making this purchase - all are valued around
the subject of their business.
If necessary, you may also want to know, the higher purpose of the current
interaction. If you do, then ask, what purpose does this serve? Or, for
what purpose?
Finally, you will also want to know their internal process strategies that
are active at this time, so you can utilise them later in the selling process.
Are they aware that they have a unconscious mind? Did they know that
they have a choice?
What would happen if they stopped smoking? How much money are they
spending on smoking?
Maybe they are spending money on diets and the gym but not following it.
So you can ask, what would happen if you had the motivation to eat the
right foods and exercise?
Finally, you need to link the value of the product or service to their need.
This is a really important step. The way I like to ask questions, by the way
is, “Can you see any value for you in it”?
Suppose you have someone that would like to book a session with you.
However, he does not think he will get the result or their partner will not
allow them to spend the money. You can say would you see value in have a
agreement that guarantees a result, would you partner or you be willing to
invest in your health with a guarantee?
Simply by putting it this way you overcome the fear that it might not
work, in the clients mind.
The moment they see the value, you'll want to anchor it. Set up the
anchor linking the two.
In addition, you will want to use the conditional close and tag question,
which will cover in step 4
The first simple technique involves filling out your order form, the order
blank close.
If you’re using an order blank that means that you're filling it out as you
ask the question on the form, “what is your mailing address”? So, the
minute your client sees value, the form is filled out and the next question
would be “how many staff do you have” or “the agreement takes about 6 to
8 weeks would you like us to get it under way this week or next week ”?
For most successful salespeople, and all the good ones I know, if they need
an order blank when they are selling, will have it ready with them, and
the minute they get a buying signal they will get it out and start filling it
in.
I do that myself: the minute I see interest, I will fill out the agreement.
The minute that I have ask question that makes a difference between
them buying or not, I get out the agreement form.
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The alternative choice
You may have noticed that we asked a question above that did not allow
for a “no” answer.
Called the alternate choice closing question, this question assumes a” yes”
is the only possibility. It also called the double bind. In using this close,
always give somebody an alternate choice when you are giving him the
opportunity to buy something.
What that means is that when the buyer says, “the only time I can see you
is on the weekend”, you say, “would this Weekend do or next weekend be
better”? The really professional salesperson will always give somebody an
alternative choice.
The alternative choice is also good, by the way, if you're trying to make an
appointment: “When can I come and see you and go over the agreement
with you? How would you feel about Thursday at 2pm, or would Friday at
3pm be better?”
You always give him an alternative choice. The answer to either of these,
is yes.
There is one more close that I want to tell you about, and this is really
important.
It's the way you handle the ”I want to think about it” response. It’s the “I
want to think about it” close.
In direct mail, advertisers have discovered that if you don't act on the
piece of direct mail within five minutes it never got to you. It's true. In
selling, the client will go cold if you let them think about it for long
enough.
The first thing you say is “well, are you in favour of it? That is the
question. You ask him that because if you’re talking to someone who is
going to talk to someone else about whether or not he should buy the
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product, if he’s not in favour of it, then how will it help you for him to go
and talk to them?
Now, if he is in favour of it, then you say, “go ahead and talk to your
partner”. Once they are in favour of it then say, “great, go ahead and talk
to your partner and take it from there. Even better than that would be if
you're in favour of it then let all three of us get together so we can talk
about it together”.
So in other words, get permission to come and talk to their partner with
them, don’t let them go and do it alone. Ask them “can you arrange a
meeting here with you and your partner”? Get together with them.
The other thing that you can do is that if they have to talk to somebody,
then still write up the agreement. For example, they say “well I certainly
want to do business with you and get a agreement in place but need to
talk to my wife because she always makes decisions with me”. That may
be real, but it may not be real. Then you say, “let’s write up the
agreement and put it down that this agreement is cancelled if your wife
won't let you do it”.
If the client asks you a question, and the answer is yes, don't say yes.
Always answer a question with another question. For example, the client
says, “can I you have talk to my partner”? You say, “would you do the
agreement with us if we talked to your partner? If the answer is yes, then
he has bought. If he says no, then ask, “what would it take for you to do
the agreement”?
Here are also some questions that you can ask to get you beyond the
request for a proposal or quote:
Let's go back and define a closing question, because I've gone through the
process of closing. A closing question is any question that when asked,
elicits the response “yes”.
So when you ask a closing question, you should always, the minute you
have asked it, shut up. You should not talk until they’ve had the
opportunity to say something. This concept comes from J. B. Douglas
Edwards, one of the world's foremost sales trainers up until his death in
the ‘70s.
Become a lover of people’s behaviour. I just love the space that’s in-
between the closing question and the buyer’s answer.
Most sales people of yesteryear were fast talkers and didn't give the people
that space. But when you give them the space, the bigger the space, the
bigger the hole they fall into. That's why the salesperson needs to shut up
the minute they’ve asked the closing question. If you don't, you are not
creating the space for them to fall into.
There are two ways of handling objections that come up. You can either
ignore the objection, which is usually what happens the first time, or you
can answer the objection.
Re-establish value
In either case, you go to Step 3. If you ignore the objection then go back
and establish value. If you answer the objection go back and establish
value.
The client says yes, I can see some value. You say “great, lets sign your
company up for the payroll solution. He says well, gosh, I can't afford it
right now, or whatever. Then, either you answer the objection or you
carry on ignoring it.
One way I would ignore it is, when he says well gosh, I don't have the
money, you say, well a moment ago, you told me you saw value in having
someone else worry about organising payroll tax and rosters. That will
either get you a sale or another objection to deal with. That's the job of the
salesperson.
I usually ignore the first objection because the first objection is usually not
the real objection.
Lets talk for a minute about buyer resistance, and getting the client ready
to want to buy what you're selling.
Between wanting to buy what you're selling, which is there, and buying,
which is here, there may be a whole lot of resistance. If you are just being
interesting, you may not be interested enough (or able because of lack of
rapport) to get him beyond his resistance, and so the unspoken resistance
will never be verbalised. You need to be interested enough to get him
beyond his resistance.
You can choose to answer the objection, that is, if you think the objection
is significant, you should answer it.
Here are the four objections that there are to anything, and there are only
four:
Answer to Time.
If they say that they don’t have enough time for a meeting or a
conversation to go over the agreement, explain that once they have thire
life in order and a no longer stress they will have more time.
Find out how much is too much for the coaching session and talk about
how much they could save with better health.
It will work for everybody else in the world but it will not work for me, eg.
it won't work for me to have a work choices agreement. This is similar to
“I don't believe you”. These two might also be called “I don't need it”, or “I
can see the value in it and it won't work from me”, for whatever reason.
Then answer the customer using happy customer for example. For
instance, we could say to the customer, I have one client, George, who was
scared his staff would leave. In fact, he thought that his staff where
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irreplaceable. Until once, he realised he was able to pay his key staff what
he thought they would be worth to make sure they stayed. He was so
excited that she couldn't wait to tell them!
Now let me talk about the way to handle an objection. So, this is “how to
handle an objection” which is a little different then the actual answer.
What I have done is given you the four objections and the answers, and
now I want to talk about how to handle an objection.
The wrong way (how not to handle an objection) would be “Why you
stupid! The agreement will cut down on penalties, so you will save on
weekend trading”.
The right way to handle the objection is this: actually, I'm going to show
you how much money you are going to save per hour again compared to a
regular award you are currently paying.
1. Listen fully
2. Actually, in the second step I often act a little bit surprised. So, I
am going to call step number 2 “Surprise”, because, remember, you
have already established value.
Now, I will also tell you that the problem with most salespeople.
They don't really listen to what the client is saying to hear the
objection. But if you listen totally then you will hear things that are
not verbalised. If you pay full attention and listen to the objections,
you will hear the non-verbalised resistance.
So that is why you repeat it, and then you say, “you mean that is
the only reason you are not buying? So he goes, well, I've just don't
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have enough time. “You don’t have enough time”? And he goes
that's right.
3. Say, you mean that's the only reason you're not buying? Now he can
either say yes or no. See what this does - it brings out the real
objection. If it is a fake objection, if he says, yes, that's the only
reason why I'm not buying, you have got him because you know you
can answer the objection. So you say “ oh, you mean that's the only
reason you're not buying” and he says “yes”.
4. The Fourth step is (and it's ok to skip this step), “if I could show you
how to have the time, would you buy? That also smokes it out, if it
is a false objection. So this is just a process for smoking out that
false objection and identifies the real one.
But if he said that’s the only reason and you have answered it, that
leaves him with nowhere to go doesn't it? He has literally got
nowhere to go, but to buy.
5. The fifth step is to answer the objection as above and go right back
to establish the value. That is Step 5: go right back to establishing
the value.
You don’t have enough money? Oh, you mean that's the only reason why
you're not buying.
“Yes”.
If I could show you how we could get your payroll sorted out for a fraction
of what it costs now would you be interested?
Well, I would be happy to show you the online system many companies
have already singed up like…List
The five step sales process was developed by Dr Tad James, from Tad
James Company. This program was developing specifically for Graduates
looking at using the 5 step sales process in the context of Hypnosis and
coaching. Adapted by Brad Greentree NLP Master practitioner and
trainer.
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