How to get clients to buy into what you are selling..

How many potential clients are you turning off or losing each day? Think of it. Every day you deliver marketing and sales messages to clients and potential clients through your website, email, social media, voice mail, presentations, advertising, signage, brochures and marketing sheets (to name a few or nine!).

Sending your message is one thing. How it is received however, is quite another thing. And when you fail to send the right message to the right person, the right way, your message is not only getting lost, it’s hitting you where it hurts the most – your bottom line.
Why? Because if potential clients are tuning out your message, confused as to what you have to offer, or simply don’t care about what you have to say, you’re missing out of lost sales and missed opportunities.

Day after day, month after month, year after year, that can add up to hundreds, thousands or millions of dollars in lost revenue. All because people didn’t buy into your message.
Got your attention? Good, because nowadays, no one can afford to leave money on the table. Trust me. It’s far better in your pocket!

How do you find out if your marketing or sales messages are helping or hurting your business? Here’s a simple, but (dare I say!) obvious way. If business is great and your sales and profits keep increasing, then fantastic. Your message is hitting the mark. If on the other hand, you’re not generating more leads for your business, increasing your sales, or simply not getting potential customers to return your calls (curious about what you have to offer), then it’s time to change your message. It’s not working.


Change your message. Change your success.

If you keep on using the same marketing and sales messages, you’ll keep on getting the same results you are getting now. Nothing is going to change. But, if you change your message, you can change your success.
I know. I’ve spent 25 years in the marketing/advertising field, crafting messages for a who’s who of who’s who. And the most important thing I learned was this. When you create the right message, to the right person, the right way, you create success. And people will actually come to you, curious and interested in what you have to offer.
So, how do you send the right message to the right person the right way? It’s really very simple. All you have to do is remember three little things…

1. The right message is about your customer, not about you.


In the beginning when you are trying to land new customers, you must remember that nobody cares about you, your product or your service (well, except for your mom!). All people care about is how you can help them. You can “blah, blah, blah” about your product or service all you want, and people won’t give a hoot! They only care about how your product or service will help them. Show them that and you’ve got their interest.

2. The right person is the one you want listening.

Send the right message to your ideal customer who has a need or desire for your product or service. You can’t be all things to all people. And your market isn’t everyone. So, it’s incumbent upon you to get to know your customers’ needs, wishes and wants. The more you know about your customers, the easier it will be to craft your message to fit their needs. And chances are you’ll see your next customer walking down the street.

3. The right way is to make your value stand out amongst your competitors.

Whatever marketing and sales messages you create, don’t (I repeat don’t!), be a “Me Too” company, and sound the same as everyone else. You’ll lose any competitive value. Be different. Stand out. Get noticed. Give your message a likeable personality. Be your loveable self. Have fun with your messages. And people will gravitate to you, as they do with any charming personality.
Got it? OK. Then, stop wasting time with marketing and sales messages that don’t work. Make your messages matter. Because when you change your message, you’ll change your success.

J Brett Abbey
Message Masters
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