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What elements are present in order for you to have a perfect buying experience? How many people are there, is there video, music, how many sellers, where is the meeting held (your place or theirs), what time of day, what else makes it perfect? Now remember, this is just what you want for your perfect buying environment. You are going to face the reality of what's going through the clients head, and what previous experience your prospective client has probably been through in the past. If they have ever bought anything, they have at some time experienced sales pressure, and now dread talking to and dealing with sales people. You're going to be guilty by association. There is a difference between putting sales pressure on someone and getting a decision if they're going to buy your product or service, but I'm not going off on that tangent right now. So we dealt with the first roadblock of the time pressure by simply asking or sharing with your prospective client how long the process would take. The way we're going to deal with the second obstacle is going to follow a similar pattern of getting and creating prospective client expectations. So there you have it, the first two steps to creating the perfect buying environment. Now go take action. It will take you less than two minutes to go through this entire process of "Lowering Barriers" and this will help you to start connecting with your prospective client. This will put you on the path of creating the perfect selling environment. In a future article I will share how you can define and create your prospect's buying criteria to position you as the ultimate Trusted Advisor. Wow! That sounds like a long time. Depends on your perspective. If you're continuously improving your skills each day, how much more effective will it make you? What could that effectiveness mean in dollars and sense to your business? The time is passing any how, you may as well make it worthwhile. Why would you want to "Lower Barriers" in your sales call? The biggest reason is that when barriers are present for either party the communication will not be effective. If you don't have effective communication with your prospect, how do you expect to determine if you are a good fit for each other? I define good fit as, "The problems or goals you have are things I'm really good at helping you fix or achieve." That's my definition of a good fit. Now think about the environment you are selling your products or services in, would you describe it as perfect? So what do you think is going through the mind of your prospect when they interacting with you? If you go into a restaurant and use their restroom and it's filthy, how does that affect your perception of the place? I find when I ask this question to people that their opinion is negatively affected by something as simple as a filthy restroom. Now to wrap this article up I want to help you start applying the techniques we covered here and start building some competency. Did you know it takes an average of thirty hours to become competent at a skill? If you will practice the two steps too "Lowering Barriers" in your selling environment just fifteen minutes per day, you and your prospective clients will enjoy a much more productive buying and selling experience. That means in the period of one hundred and twenty days you would be competent at this skill. So here is what I want you to ask, "Mr. prospect, do you know how sometimes when you're shopping, sales people put pressure on you to buy? Well, in my experience,Cheap Todd Heap Jersey, most people do not respond well under pressure and I would like you to have a good experience while we're together. 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