How to Deliver Professional Sales Presentations and Demonstrations: Small Business Sales How-to Series
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How to Deliver Professional Sales Presentations & Demonstrations is a netted-out handbook covering the practical how-to of preparing, setting up, and then presenting or demonstrating in front of the prospect.
Part one covers early preparations, including what kind of specific commitment to gain from the prospect in order to avoid wasting your time, and then planning and preparing
Part two addresses the actual delivery of the presentations or demonstration, working through six key phases from opening to handling questions and objections to closing for the order or other action.
Part three, on communications on multiple levels, covers the crucial issue of reading and sending the appropriate non-verbal messages, including positioning yourself and subtly moving the prospect.
It also puts into context the overall purpose of demonstrations, presentations, proposals, free-trials, discounts and other special deals: that is, to serve as "proof sources," given for a specific, defined purpose that should be agreed-upon in advance with the prospective buyer. Unless the prospect is willing to make that up-front agreement, then it usually makes little sense for you as the sales person to proceed. How to gain and use that pre-commitment is covered in this book
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How to Deliver Professional Sales Presentations and Demonstrations - Michael McGaulley
INTRODUCTION
Part one: EARLY PREPARATIONS
1. Crucial first step before developing any proof: Negotiate a pre-commitment
with the Prospect.
2. Get a specific appointment from the Prospect for the time for the presentation or demonstration.
3. Touch base
in advance with any key Decision Influencers who will be attending.
4. Plan and prepare the logistics of the meeting
5. Plan and prepare your demo or presentation.
6. In your preparation, focus on KEY SELLING MESSAGES.
7. As you prepare, VISUALIZE the scene and REHEARSE MENTALLY.
8. Prepare your visual aids and sales agreement
Part two: DELIVERING THE PRESENTATION OR DEMONSTRATION
Section A: Preliminaries
1. Arrive early to set up. Work through this checklist.
2. Own
your block of time.
Section B: Working through the Six Key Phases
1. Set the context with an Opening Benefits Statement.
2. Confirm agreement on the objectives that you and the Prospect worked out earlier for this presentation or demonstration. Check for completeness. If appropriate, add any others suggested by the Prospect.
3. Confirm the Pre-commitment you and the Prospect made earlier.
4. Conduct the body of the demonstration or presentation.
5. Deal with any questions, comments, and objections.
6. Close with a close.
Part three: COMMUNICATING ON MULTIPLE LEVELS
Section A. Non-verbal techniques for communicating TO Prospects
1. Projecting the right image.
2. Focusing the Prospect’s attention
3. Positioning yourself
4. Moving the Prospect
Section B. Decoding non-verbal cues FROM Prospects
ABOUT THE AUTHOR / OTHER BOOKS
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INTRODUCTION
Starting point: sales presentations and sales demonstrations are proof sources. That is, when planning a presentation or demonstration, it’s crucial to keep in mind that the purpose is to prove something. What it is you are setting out to prove to the prospect depends on the situation.
Which means there should be no such thing as a standard
or canned
demonstration or presentation: each should be tailored to the specifics of this prospect and this potential sale.
What IS a proof source?
Basically, a proof source can be anything that's needed to help you prove any part of the case you made to the Prospect.
That is, you may need to prove to the Prospect’s satisfaction that your product or service can,
fill the needs that you have uncovered in your earlier sales meeting with the Prospect; or can,
do so within the cost you have claimed; or,
do the job more efficiently or economically; or,
do it better than a competing product; or,
do it better than the existing method, whatever that may be; or,
or . . . or . . . or any of a variety of things.
Precisely what it is that you need to prove — as well as the best kind of proof source to use — depends on what came up in the course of your discussions with the Prospect and others.
That may seem obvious enough: you match the proof source to what needs to be proven, and that what needs to be proven flows from what the Prospect is looking for.
It is obvious, of course. Regardless, sales people give demonstrations and presentations for no real purpose other than for the sake of giving them. Why? Maybe because . . .
they want to have something to fill in on this week’s appointment book so they look busy; or,
they want to get the feeling (or show the boss) the sense of progress being made; or,
their (incompetent?) sales manager has set a quota on how many demos and presentations they are to give each month; or,
it seems like a good idea; or,
the prospect seems willing to sit still for a demo.
A skilled sales-person offers a demo or presentation for one reason only: to prove that this product or service can and will fill the specific need that this specific prospect has, and that it will fill that need better and more cost-effectively than other alternatives.
Quick review: why Prospects buy
If you have read my other books in this Small Business Sales How-to Series—
Selling 101: Consultative Selling Skills.
Newbie’s Guide to Selling Face-to-Face: Quick Start for Consultants, Freelancers, New self-employed; Career changers; Start-ups. A quick guide / handbook.
Sales Training Tutorials. Self-instructional workbook set up around hands-on tutorials.
Sales Training Workshop Leader Guide – an instructor guide for using Selling 101 in class or sales team meetings.
— then will likely recall the point I stressed: individuals and organizations, and the Prospects within organizations, buy if and only if they arrive at solidly Yes! answers to four fundamental questions.
That is, prospects, as they meet with you, hold four questions in mind:
Do we face a need?
Is that need significant enough to justify our spending some money to fill