Book Titles

Ditch the Pitch
The Art of Improvised Persuasion

By Steve Yastrow

Year Published: 2014
ISBN-13: 978-1590791264
Categories: Buying, Persuasion, Selling

26 Quotes Found

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Ditch the Pitch:

A good persuader learns to be comfortable in her own skin, putting self-doubt and self-criticism aside.

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Ditch the Pitch:

Getting a sense of your customer’s personality, motivations, and characteristics can provide you with some of the most valuable input you can find for improvising a persuasive conversation.

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Communicate who you are before you try to communicate what you want to sell.

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Long before telling your customer about what you are offering him you want your customer to understand who you are.

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What your customers feels about his relationship with you will form the foundation of how he views your product and service offerings.

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Your goal, at every moment, is to advance the conversation, and at the same time advance your relationship.

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If you deny what your customer brings into the conversation, you risk shutting the conversation down.

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You never want to force your customer to go in a direction she does not want to go in. You want to create a flowing persuasive conversation, in which you and your customer are moving together, not in opposition.

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You’ll stress yourself out if you worry that everything you or your customers says must be the perfect thing to say.

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Don’t get hung up on saying the ‘right’ thing at points in a persuasive conversation. There is no right or wrong, only possibilities and choices.

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