One of the great areas that I work on with corporations all over the world is called value selling, or the customer value offering.
Value selling says that customers buy your value or service because they anticipate enjoying a value that they would not have in the absence of your product or service. People don't buy products, they buy the results the product will give them.
I've trained more than 2 million salespeople in 75 countries and I teach them all the same thing: Sell the value and the benefit of your product or service to your customer. Focus on explaining and expressing how it works for the customer. If you focus on the value, the price becomes less and less important. If you don't focus on value, the only thing you can talk about is price.
|What is value selling?
Now, here's the research…
The research says that the value is the difference between the price you charge and the benefits the customer perceives he will get. If the customer perceives he will get a lot of benefit for the price they pay, then their perception of value is very high. So you can control that.
Teach people how much they will benefit, how much your product or service will help them, and all of the things your product or service can do to help them achieve their goals and solve their problems. The more you focus on these values, the less important price becomes.
|How to sell value instead of price
Here are a few actionable items you need to do to ensure you'll get the sale.
1. Who will buy your product?
Ask yourself, “Who is the person who is most likely to buy my product and buy it immediately?”
Then create a customer avatar based on this information. How old are they? Are they male or female? Do they have children? How much money do they make? What is their level of education?
2. Identify your customer's problem clearly.
Once, you've done this, you'll be able to move on to the next step which is identifying your ideal customer avatar's problem clearly.
What kind of problem does your customer have that you can solve? If you have identified your customer correctly, these people will pay you to solve their problem. Sometimes the problems are obvious and clear. Sometimes the problems are not obvious or clear. Sometimes the problems do not exist for the customer. If the problem does not exist, the customer will not buy your product.
3. Make a list of all your product benefits.
Finally, make a list of all of the benefits of your product or service and the ways it will solve your customer's problems. The more benefits and solutions you can clearly provide to your customers, the less they will be able to deny your product will solve their problem.
I'd like to leave you with a thought: “The more you focus on the value of your product or service, the less important price becomes.”
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