When you don't have time to build a relationship.

[Rudi Vanhaecke]

When you contact a referral, or when you call a prospect from a list of leads, you don't have days or months to build a relationship. So how do you present your opportunity?

 

Don't start with all the neat benefits of your opportunity. Don't tell the prospects about the wonderful bonus checks, the trips, the cars, the incredible products, the company founder's background, etc.

 

Instead, remember that people buy things to solve a problem.

 

So position your presentation to solve a problem for your prospect. Talk about how your opportunity will make it easier for the prospect to take more time off work, how your opportunity will make it easier to pay bills with that extra check every month, or how your opportunity will provide the extra car for the spouse.

 

Prospects don't care how great your opportunity is. They simply care about their problems.

 

That's the shortcut when you don't have time to build relationships.

 

[Kenny Kolijn]

Good advice. If you start with how you can help them succeed or fix a problem, without pitching them a product, you can go a long way.

[FGXFamily]

I always send a card, a personalized card from an automated site, which prints, seals stamps and mails it for me they love it, that goes beyond email, phone calling and anything else. Try it out, send someone you just connected with a card saying Nice to meet you

[Pierre Perpall Jr]

A very good way is to ask questions and show interest in the prospects affairs, to be a good listener is key, by doing that you have leverage when it comes to objections.