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How to deliver the perfect Sales Pitch

 

This is the lens that helps aspiring pitchers to deliver the Perfect Pitch.

If you have to deliver an important sales pitch or sales presentation then read on.

Great sales pitches do one thing - they resolve the clients dilemma. The pitching company has taken the time to understand what is driving the prospective client and what their pain is.

So the one piece of advice from me is this - get to know the client, their problem, their pain and their people first then and only then offer a solution.

Use stories - we learned all about the world through stories as children. Done well it captured their imagination. A sales pitch is another type of story designed to engage the senses and transport the client to the wonder world of what it would be like if they used your agency

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Better Sales Pitches 

How to deliver the perfect sales pitch

A sales pitch is one of the most important presentations that most of us have to deliver. Sadly most do not know how to do it or more importantly what it is that they are doing wrong.

Have a look through some of the links below
First Step to Winning a Sales Pitch? Listening
7 Ways to Cut Loose from Old Sales Thinking
7 Ways to Stop “Selling” & Start Building Relationships

Links to great sales pitch sites 

Here are a few sites worth visiting to see how they deliver great sales pitches
Credence UK
My home site
What is a sales pitch
Need help with a definition of a sales pitch?
The Sales Process
A pdf outlining the perfect sales pitch process
Useful meeting info
Sales pitches are like meetings
Barnes Graham
Sales pitches are not the only way to get sales. Have a look at this internet marketing guru's site
Closing the sale
Useful hints and tips here
Elevator Pitches
Getting your introduction right is essential.
Know your audience
Some good insights here
Insights into younger networkers
Some interesting insights into how the next generation view networking and how they receive sales pitches
Great sales ideas
I found some useful stuff in here
Orange Tree - USA
Some interesting bits on sales here
Find their pain
A concise piece about making sure you understand that your role is to ease the clients pain
Humour
Humour is important - read this to see how to develop a humour file
Importance of videos
Soem interesting bits on the use of videos to promote yourself.
Building relationships
A nice idea as to how to enhance existing relationships
Link with the emotions
Nice piece about the importance of linking up with the emotions as well as the intellect
Whats in it for me?
A concise relevant article on making sure that you gear your presentation to the client in fornt of you, not a generic one size fits all.
Seminar on how to present
US company is offering advice on how to present ideas.
Emotions count
OK, not exactly about sales pitching, but it highlights the importance of engaging the emotions in the sales pitch

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Richard Dennys

Hi Rob, i thought I would come browsing by I hadn't heard of squidoo before. But I will have a good browse around and see if I can pick up any " sales and business development tips "(see what I did there...)

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Posted April 29, 2008

Senrab

Loads of useful stuff on here, Rob, no wonder you're flying up the rankings. Tom

Posted April 18, 2008

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Rob Hook - Consultant

I worked at Board level in various service and manufacturing companies, including Gillette.

After 25 years managing national and international marketing strategies, I decided to focus my attention on helping companies to grow through improving their sales pitch and the application of tried and tested marketing techniques.

Experience is one thing, having the knowledge to support it is sometimes quite a different thing. I have gained additional qualifications by earning an MBA from the University of Bath (2001), a Diploma in Marketing and am a full member of the Marketing Society.

I now help clients to win and then maximise long term profitable income streams by developing strategic and tactical marketing initiatives.

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