The B.I.G. Blog

With last month’s focus on defining your niche and helping your customers understand your exact value proposition, we are well positioned to communicate that value to the market. But what if no one is listening? As you would expect, most customers are not receptive to a direct sales pitch. We need an approach that brings our customers in without alienating them before they’re even listening.

Selling is an art. And just like any art form, there are multiple approaches to selling. While painting and sculpting might not have an objective metric by which they can be measured, selling produces sales, which is a hard number. So, while impressionism may not be objectively better than pointillism, one type of selling can be said to be better than another, at least in specific contexts where it produces results.

Even if you know your product is perfect for this customer and would solve all their problems, if they don’t understand this, the perceived value isn’t there and they won’t buy from you. Getting the thought into the customers head – that your product is the solution to all their problems – is the last step. How do you do this?