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The quality of your result is directly proportional to how you apply PIE. Using PIE will help you to differentiate yourself from competitor sales people because you will be digging deeper into a client's problem than other salespeople know how to or have the courage to. This in turn will allow you to recommend the right product or service and your job of closing the sale will be easier and feel more natural for both yourself and your client. As sales people is it enough to do a reasonable job of asking questions? Most people reading this would say it isn't. The world is too competitive to do a reasonable job. The core issue is unless you can dig deep enough into the full extent of a client's problem that includes the ramifications and their reactions to the problem you won't have uncovered the full extent of the problem. Fast forward the sales process and often the sales person ends up with a closing problem. Why? 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In-fact 80% of buyers report that they now use other people as their primary method of finding the salespeople and companies they want to do business with. LinkedIn. The hottest source of buyers on the Internet is also the most overlooked by Salespeople. While there is all kinds of buzz about places like Facebook and Twitter the website dedicated to business professionals looking to connect has largely been ignored. LinkedIn's mission statement says "Our mission is to connect the world's professionals to accelerate their success. We believe that in a global connected economy, your success as a professional and your competitiveness as a company depends upon faster access to insight and resources you can trust." So join LinkedIn today and start connecting. Salespeople haven't responded or kept up. We think fighting the technology tactics of our prospects can be overcome with more cold calling, more fruitless mailings, more hyped up marketing. 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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? 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My goal during our time is to find out if you and I are a good fit to do business together. That means that the problems or goals you want to achieve by investing in my product or service are things I can actually help you achieve. If we're a good fit for each other, great, there's a good chance we'll do business together. If we're not a good fit, that's fine also, I'll do my best to lead you where you would find a better fit. Are you OK if you and I ask and answer some questions to figure this out together with out any pressure to buy?" The second roadblock is sales pressure. This typically means that a sales person will put buying pressure on a prospect to get them to buy something. There is an old saying that states, "People love to buy stuff, but they hate to be sold." Let's deal with the first roadblock to effective communication that keeps barriers up between you and your prospect. 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