PART SIX: Sales Differentiation – When They Ask for References
Sales Gravy: Jeb Blount
Jeb Blount
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🗓️ 23 December 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In part six of the Sales Differentiation series, Jeb Blount and Lee Salz teach you exactly what to do when your prospect asks for references.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the sales gravy podcast. I'm Jeb Blunt, bestselling author of fanatical prospecting and sales |
| 0:08.3 | EQ, and I'm here to help you open more doors, close bigger deals, and rock your commission check. |
| 0:18.7 | In episode six of my conversation with Lee Saul's on sales differentiation, we talk about this pivotal |
| 0:24.5 | moment in the sales process when the buyer asked for references and how to handle that and to make |
| 0:29.8 | sure that in the process of handling that and giving them references, you are truly differentiating |
| 0:34.8 | yourself compared to your competitors. |
| 0:42.2 | Before we get started, though, I'm going to share my team's secret for connecting with hard-to-reach prospects. |
| 0:50.9 | You know the ones that don't return phone calls, don't respond to email, don't let you in the door, and put up a wall anytime you're trying to connect with them and their company. |
| 0:53.4 | We use a tool called Outbound Cards. |
| 0:56.2 | With Outbound Cards, with a simple click and a swipe on an app, we can send a personalized card that gets our prospects attention anywhere, anytime, from any device. |
| 1:03.7 | I want you to go check it out, and you can try it for free. Go to OutboundCards.com. That's OutboundCards.com |
| 1:09.8 | and click on Send a free card. |
| 1:12.1 | And there is absolutely no obligation. |
| 1:14.2 | And I promise, when you start using outbound cards, |
| 1:16.7 | you are going to be amazed at how it makes you stand out compared to your competitors. |
| 1:21.4 | Now, here's episode six of sales differentiation with Lee Saul's. |
| 1:34.9 | Thank you. differentiation with Lee-Salls. There's this moment in the sales process that causes a lot of anxiety. |
| 1:41.2 | And it usually happens at the point where you are delivering a proposal, you sit down |
| 1:46.8 | with your prospects, you go through the process, you've done everything right. And they say this |
| 1:51.8 | looks really, really good, maybe have some references. And keep in mind, these are the informed |
| 1:55.8 | buyers that people talk about that have done all their research in advance. So they should know |
| 2:00.1 | everything about you. Yet at the proposal point they say Lee I'm gonna need some |
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