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

They want to understand potential pitfalls and how to avoid them. Buyers are looking for ways to understand what choices are available to them and how they should choose between them. This stands in stark contrast to what many companies are currently communicating across marketing and sales.
April Dunford • Sales Pitch: How to Craft a Story to Stand Out and Win
Marketing analytics platforms:
April Dunford • Sales Pitch: How to Craft a Story to Stand Out and Win
Customers don’t care about your features or capabilities, but they do care about what those features can do for their business.
April Dunford • Sales Pitch: How to Craft a Story to Stand Out and Win
2 Accommodate the salesperson’s need to do in-depth discovery.
April Dunford • Sales Pitch: How to Craft a Story to Stand Out and Win
The goal of a great sales pitch is to help customers understand all their choices, the trade-offs between each, and when to pick your solution.
April Dunford • Sales Pitch: How to Craft a Story to Stand Out and Win
The platform diagram:
April Dunford • Sales Pitch: How to Craft a Story to Stand Out and Win
4 Accommodate a product demonstration
April Dunford • Sales Pitch: How to Craft a Story to Stand Out and Win
their options. Buyers would like vendors to help them understand the trade-offs between different approaches to solving their problem.
April Dunford • Sales Pitch: How to Craft a Story to Stand Out and Win
The “marketecture” diagram: