The Top 1% Sales People do this: Sales Communication Solutions

In entrepreneurship, products and services gain value through their function and the solutions they provide. Still, the hyperbolic trigger governing a product’s success in the first place lies in the quality of the sales communication presenting the offer to the marketplace.

Without revealing our clients and their confidential goals in the marketplace, we can reveal that we work extensively with inventors, engineers, startup founders, real estate agents, luxury sales teams, Ted speakers, CEOs, and even media personalities. The one critical factor behind their success is the unique ability industry leaders have to pitch an idea and sell their message using elite communication skills.

You can have the best ideas, offers, services or products, but you can hang up your entrepreneurial boots if you cannot sell them.

Your sales communication ability will have the highest potential for single-point failure in any business, venture, or execution.

Whether it’s an idea or inventory, if you can not sell, you will lose the whole mission.

Today, we will explore key starting points you can readily implement to establish a stronger speaking foundation so that your sales communication connects your offer with your prospect.

While this expert article is positioned for a traditional salesperson, the ideas outlined will also benefit anyone who feels they can present information with credibility and audacity that makes a contact stop and consider your insights noteworthy. So, even if you don’t have a shopping cart at the end of your ideas, the topics covered will still endear your message in non-monetary transactions such as the boardroom, team meetings, and more.

Is your goal to close more deals without feeling embarrassed or pushy?

Or you may also notice that your customers lose momentum and interest in your products or services after they meet you.

Today, we will explore key starting points you can readily implement to establish a stronger speaking foundation so that your sales communication connects your offer with your prospect.

These practical tips will boost your confidence and give you a concrete and ethical approach to interacting in the marketplace.

#1 Sales Communication Growth Opportunity: Tonality

Most humans don’t work on their voice tonality. They breathe and speak without calibration. But if you need a bandage for your haemorrhaging sales conversations, today I want you to consider 3 voice tonality elements:

I’m sure you’ve picked up the indelible link between voice tone and trust and credibility. You can watch numerous Cadenza videos on that topic, like this one-

How to stop Mumbling & Speak Clearly (and confidently)

And this one;

Why You SOUND less Eloquent When You Speak. 6 CLEAR VOICE Mistakes you need to know about.

And even this one;

The Expert Guide to Voice Projection

But let’s add to that.

Your voice tonality will determine your sales conversion rate.

There are 3 Voice Tonality elements to consider.

Your ability to use your voice tonality is the key to the charisma castle and we can vouch that’s the place your sales communication needs to be. How you use your inflections, melody and speech flow will directly signal vocal charisma and be the most fitting way to infuse excitement to the deal. To put it frankly, a high value person in the antiquities travelled in a golden carriage, not a wheelbarrow. Your message must travel on an eloquently executed voice signal if you want to position your offer with the polish it needs to set your goods apart.

#2 Sales Communication Growth Opportunity: Figurative Language

You will find that selling services, products, ideas, or inventions is abstract. During your sales conversation, your client needs evidence that their purchase item will deliver on its promise. But watch out, the more analytical your language gets, the less interest your buyer or investors will show (Magee, Milliken & Lurie, 2010).

You will need to find a way to step away from the analytical approach you used to build your service catalogue or venture and use figurative language to allow your customers to envision the impact your solution will have on their lives. This is a form of futurecasting that can only be demonstrated through high-level language skills.

While I’d love to share all the tools you can use here today, my paying clients might not appreciate me handing out the entire architectural drawings to successful sales communication infrastructure, so if you know that your language lacks

• Interesting words
• Creativity and
• Punchy delivery

We should speak about how to change that!

#2 Sales Communication Growth Risk: Emotional Contagion

Emotions are contagious and this presents one of the greatests risks to your communication confidence when selling. There will be certain points in your sales deal or venture pitch where your leads or investors may show emotions that can hijack your conversion flight path.

Your brain is a reflector. Networks of mirror neurons and pathways deep within your subcortex’s anterior insula mean that the mood, facial expression and voice tone of your contact can easily rub off on you. Here you need to take care that if your lead sounds hesitant, your tone is assured. Or if your lead looks less expressive and speaks in monotone, you don’t follow suit.

While mirroring a contact’s behaviour is an effective way to showcase mutuality and build interpersonal rapport, know that “exposure to emotional expressions primes specific reactions (Peters and Kashima, 2015) especially in selling.

Research by Shukair et al. uncovered that

“The facial expressions of sales people and brand endorsers are fundamental elements in sales.”

Emotions drive consumer behaviour. Ethical sellings requires that you don’t manipulate this, but be mindful that customer hesitancy, uncertainty and mood will influence your presentation. For this reason, turn it on its head and show up with confident composure which may in turn inspire your customer to give your unique service, product or venture the consideration it deserves.

Sales communication skills create the emotional passion, enthusiasm and charisma that will reassure your prospect of how invested you are to serve them effectively. It will also build the emotional trust connection that showcases your expertise and solutions as competent, memorable and exciting.

Do you need more?

We assist high end luxury sales teams, CEOs, academics, inventors and business owners to sell and position their ideas, products and services with the memorable and charismatic communication that gets trust, buy-in and customer experience in the bag.

There are several ways to work with CADENZA and all it starts with is a conversation.

Today I hypothesise you’re seeking the heimlich manoeuvre to transform your entrepreneurial or customer pursuits. If that is the case, you can get in touch with me for a bespoke, personalised solution to rapidly solve your sales or pitch blocks.

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