When I was sales training for large organizations such as Goldman Sachs, I would kick off my first meeting with the following question:
What does the word “Sales” make you feel like?
The class would go around saying words such as “Yucky,” “Used car salesman”, “aggressive”, etc.
That’s not surprising.
As I wrote in Barron’s a few years ago:
Let’s face it: No one likes the word “sales.” The word brings to mind used car salesmen or Bud Fox cold-calling down the white pages in the movie “Wall Street.” We’re way beyond that … we’re holistic wealth managers; we don’t sell!
Yet “sales” is the layman’s term for the lifeblood of any business: revenue. And that applies to the financial industry just as it does every other industry.
The key is to think of selling in a modern, best-practices context. Up until now, advisors’ predominant sales approach has been one or more of:
•uncomfortable and unpredictable conversations with clients to give you referrals
•pitching an idea over an expensive steak dinner
•going down a checklist of standardized questions like a nurse checking a patient’s blood pressure
•giving scripted responses on how managing wealth or running a financial plan can reduce risk and diversify your prospect’s wellbeing.
“Selling” in this manner is one-sided, helping you achieve an agenda in your terms. Worse, it re-introduces the old-fashioned vendor/buyer framework, which ends up turning both investors and advisors off, thus leading to a vicious cycle of low sales.
There’s a better way! In our opinion, the best way for advisors to obtain new clients, in this era of information overload, intense competition, and price frenzy, is through consultative selling. Consultative selling involves counseling your prospects in their terms, not yours.
I’ve been a sales trainer and coach for some of the largest financial firms in the nation.
Examples of our sales training include:
Sales training junior financial professionals who have never learned about this unique skill nor were planning on it when they entered the world of finance
Cross-selling between financial divisions, such as from the accounting division to the wealth management division
Center of influence sales training
The list goes on and on!
Contact us to learn how we can help with your consultative approach to grow your practice
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