10 Sales Mistakes You Don’t Know You are Making

10 (Startup)

By @VladBlagi, ScaleMyBusiness.com

You Don’t Know You’re Making

WRONG CUSTOMERSelling to the

Acute need or pain

Customer is aware of the need

Got or can acquire a budget

WRONG PRODUCTSelling the

Be open to new opportunities Uncover Barriers to adoption

PRODUCTSelling the

Feature Pusher

Sell a solution, a BETTER world Sell an experience

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PROOF & FIGURESNot providing any

DIFFERENCENot showing the

What makes you unique Do customers care about it?

UNDERPRICINGyour product

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LISTENINGConvincing and Defending… instead of

QUESTIONSNot Proactively Answering

Financial risk ROI, Speed of reward

Product-needs fitinformation about product features, FAQs,

demo, free trial…

Competitor risk better / faster /cheaper?

Compatibility risk fit their way of working

integration

FOLLOWING UPNot

only 12% make

> 3 contacts

# of follow ups

CLOSEFailing to

EXPERIMENTINGNot Conscientiously

UNDERDELIVERINGOverpromising and

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