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How to Become a Rainmaker:
Showing the customer what it costs per month, week, or day to go without the solution shortens the sales cycle.
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Customers are more impressed by intelligent, legitimate get-to-the-problem questions than they are by a phony inquiry.
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Presentations, demonstrations, and engaging trade-show booths are a waste of money if they are not accompanied by a practiced, proactive strategy to get the customer to buy.
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How to Become a Rainmaker:
Do a wonderful job, do it on time, do it on budget, don’t complain, and give the customer a little extra. This is the blueprint for customer satisfaction and for continued sales success.
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Rainmakers get buying commitments before they give selling demonstrations.
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…there is a huge difference between being shown how something is done, and then doing it at all, let alone well.
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How to Become a Rainmaker:
Never show vulnerability. Always be confident. Plan for the unexpected. Expect a curve ball. Stay calm… Never let them see you sweat.
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How to Become a Rainmaker:
Your dress should signal confidence, success, expertise, sensitivity, professionalism, and attention to detail. Dressing with care flatters your customer.
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How to Become a Rainmaker:
…when a customer agrees to meet you for breakfast, he or she is making an uncommon investment of time. That investment is a positive buy signal.
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How to Become a Rainmaker:
Don’t forget to use your business card. To too many people the business card is so common, so trivial, that they forget its purpose. Business cards are to get and keep customers…
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