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Here’s insight from what I’ve delivered at my customer sales meetings and as part of programmes aimed at selling more new products, condensed into a handy e-book form:
The new product selling pitfalls I describe and propose remedies for are as follows:
1. Not Grasping The Point
Electing to forego sufficiently deep analysis of why someone would want to buy your new product can let ineffective propositions take centre stage.
2. Unclear Ambition
Without articulating what you hope to achieve at the outset, any undertaking is liable to fall short of expectations, and selling new products is no different.
3. No Anchor
What messages can you build on that mean you’re not re-inventing the wheel whilst simultaneously creating an instant positive image in the mind of your prospect?
4. Accepting Neophobia
The very thought of something ‘new’ can throw people into a troublesome spin. How do you address this before you begin and what steps can you take to prevent it from elongating campaigns?
5. Open Doors Unknocked
Thankfully some people enjoy the very latest the market has to offer. What can be learned from their actions, and how do you find such potentially lucrative people?
6. Sales Substitution
The net effect of this demon is that a company’s overall sales at best stay flat, and more often than not, they decline, despite the enormous airtime given to the new product’s launch.
7. Incentives Hinder Motivation
The commission policy that rewards salespeople for winning new product deals can often tip the balance between project success and failure all by itself.
8. Inaccurate Competitor Intel
You can counter negative rumblings with careful positioning, rather than outright denials, by striving to capture such intelligence quickly, and instantly share and build on it.
9. Blank Gap Analysis
Where are the holes in customer buying patterns that you should plug, leading to extra early sales both easy to seal and of potentially great magnitude.
10. Big Bang Release
You must avert the strike of destructive launch pressures and consider measured and structured initial sales launches.
Bonus: Ignoring The Buyer’s Perspective
A leading procurement practitioner shares their expertise on what goes on in a buyer’s mind when we make our first new product sales presentation.
