
Sales Pitch: How to Craft a Story to Stand Out and Win

The Introduction: You introduce the company and the product.
April Dunford • Sales Pitch: How to Craft a Story to Stand Out and Win
They understand their immediate problem, but there may be dimensions to the problem they haven’t thought about yet. A salesperson quizzing a buyer on what exactly they’re looking for might, at best, result in the buyer giving some fuzzy answers to try to move the discussion along. At worst, this kind of questioning could leave the buyer feeling ann
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When Does It Work Best? Like the product walkthrough, this style of narrative works best when the buyer is highly educated and can translate the features they are shown into business value.
April Dunford • Sales Pitch: How to Craft a Story to Stand Out and Win
This method helps you do two things. First, it helps you precisely define the value your product delivers that no alternative in the market can. And second, it teaches you how to position that to customers in a way that makes the product... obviously awesome.
April Dunford • Sales Pitch: How to Craft a Story to Stand Out and Win
Practical Tips In this step, you are making sure the prospect agrees with your point of view on the world. If it is clear the customer is with you, then there is no need to linger here. Simply move on to the next step. Overall, reps should move through the first three steps of the sales pitch—Insight, Alternatives, and The Perfect World—fairly quic
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1 Help prospects understand the entire market,
April Dunford • Sales Pitch: How to Craft a Story to Stand Out and Win
If You Customize Your Demo, Do It in a Second Call Some companies want to do a customized demo.
April Dunford • Sales Pitch: How to Craft a Story to Stand Out and Win
hero (the customer) has a problem and meets a guide (you!), who gives the hero a plan and calls them to action. This action ends in success and helps the hero avoid failure.
April Dunford • Sales Pitch: How to Craft a Story to Stand Out and Win
APIs are becoming a crucial building block for software development. Increasingly, APIs are a critical way through which applications interact with each other. Low-quality, difficult-to-consume APIs are putting both customer experience and revenue at risk. Companies must quickly deliver high-quality APIs that are easily consumable.