5 top tips to maximise your sales

The fast track to improving sales results…

Top Tips to Maximise

Your Sales

Bryan McCrae


How can you improve your sales and marketing?


Sales and Marketing Health Check


1. What do you sell?

In a maximum of ten words


What do you really sell?

• Features or benefits?

• E.g. “I design web sites”

• Ask “So what?”

• “I help local small companies find new customers faster and sell to them more effectively.”


Get into your customer’s heads

• Needs• Wants• Style• Dreams• Relationships• Market• Competition• Budgets• Pain• Risk


What do your customers really want, and how do they want it?


• What benefits do your clients get from your services?

• What problems do you help them solve?

• What pain are you taking away?

• What time and risk are you saving?

• How do you make them money?


Write down three benefits that your clients get from your products or

services


2. How do you stand out in the crowd?


What are your USP's?

• Why should a prospect choose you and not your competition?

• What do you do differently or better than your competitors, in your target market?

• Write down one USP now


3. How do you find your customers ?


• Advertising

• Mail-shots

• Email

• Newsletters

• Brochures

• Public Relations

• Public Speaking

• Sponsorship

• Write a book

• Shopfront

• Seminars

• Exhibitions

• Referrals

• Editorial

• Blogs & Pod-casts

• Video

• Website

• Give-aways

• TV, Radio


How do you engage with your customers and prospects?


How do you engage with your customers and prospects?

• Web-site: sign up offers

• Auto responder systems

• Personalised emails and newsletters

• Pay-per-click advertising and landing pages

• Blogs and RSS feeds

• Special interest forums and web groups

• Social and business networks

• Micro segmentation


3. How do you find your customers ?

Write down one more approach that you will try this month.


4. What tools do you use?

• Testimonials

• Case studies

• Articles and guides

• Samples

• Demonstrations

• Videos


From the sales and marketing health check service:

“I have no hesitation in saying that the sales and marketing health check was worthwhile. Our sales are higher and our marketing spend is

reduced as a direct result.”

Russell Wiltshire, Director, Vivantio


4. What tools do you use ?

Write down one more tool that you will try this month.


1. Sell the benefits

2. Stand out in the crowd

3. Engage with your customers

4. Get some good tools

5. Have a SMART plan and do it !


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