R3R1: The Sales Formula for Success

R3R1: The Sales Formula for SuccessThe most successful football teams rely on a playbook, and plays can be simple or complicated. You can run the ball between the tackle and the guard or straight up the middleor you can try a flea flicker or double reverse. Some of the best coaches script their first ten or twenty plays to include a mix of simple and complicated plays. Sales involves similar steps, but you must master a series of processes within the framework of relating, reasoning,

The most successful football teams rely on a playbook, and plays can be simple or complicated.

You can run the ball between the tackle and the guard or straight up the middleÑor you can try a flea flicker or double reverse. Some of the best coaches script their first ten or twenty plays to include a mix of simple and complicated plays.

Sales involves similar steps, but you must master a series of processes within the framework of relating, reasoning, and resolving to get resultsÑa formula created by veteran sales and marketing professional Russell M. Rush.

In this guide to improving performance at the point of the sale, youÕll learn how to resolve unspoken objections and reduce concerns about the risks in buying. YouÕll also learn that everything boils down to answering three questions:

¥ Did you relate with the prospect?
¥ Did you reason with the prospect?
¥ Did you resolve all the issues that were important to the prospect?