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2 Strategies For Overcoming Price Objections Before They Happen

2 Strategies For Overcoming Price Objections Before They Happen

You are proud of the products or services you bring to the marketplace.


You know in your heart that they will bring your prospective clients many times the return on investment they make with you. And yet, they throw the oldest and the most well-known objection in the history of buying and selling: "Your price is too high." You have no choice but to react and get into a negotiation process that often becomes a zero-sum game where one side loses and other side wins. Even in a best-case scenario, both parties walk away having made compromises, and neither side is happy. 


There is a whole cottage industry out there that teaches you how to "handle stalls and objections." But what if there was a way to make sure that the pricing objections do not happen at all in your selling process? 


Read on because I think that there is not just one but two ways that a business and a selling professional can eliminate pricing objections. 

"Our prospects pay our high prices without complaints."

How would you answer the above question for your sales team?

Do you sell or manage a team of salespeople? Consider the following statement:

"Our prospects pay our high prices without complaints."

Would you say that it's a true statement for you and your sales team? If you think it's only partially true, how much of it is true? 10%? 80%? 30%?

And the most important question: How would you fix this problem, once and for all?

2 Simple Strategies for Overcoming Price Objections Before They Happen

There are two places in the buying process where your prospective customers will think of price as an issue.

1. Before they meet you face-to-face, while being exposed to your business and its message in some form.

At this stage, pricing will become an issue if you are easily comparable to your competition's products are services.

If you want to make the pricing issue irrelevant, you must be meaningfully different from your competitor's offerings.

To begin the process of finding your Meaningful Difference, answer this simple question: What’s one thing that your business does that no one in the world can as well as you do.

The answers may not come quickly, but the question will get you thinking. The answers to this question are key to finding out your Meaningful Difference.

Once you know your meaningful difference, all you have to do is build it into your marketing literature and in your conversations with prospects.

True of False?: "Our prospects pay our high prices without complaints."

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2. When they are about to do business with you in the selling process.

A typical problem at this stage is that the selling process is intellectually driven.

People buy emotionally first, then they back up that decision with intellectual rationale.

If you are not addressing the emotional needs of your prospects in your selling process, you will face pricing fights.

To find your prospects’ emotional reasons for doing business with you, ask gentle yet probing questions about their issues, challenges, and problems while looking for signs that the prospect is emotionally involved with the problems or situations she is facing.

"If you are not addressing the emotional needs of your prospects in your selling process, you will face pricing fights."

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In Conclusion: 

The best way to "overcome" price objections is to not have them in the first place. You can inoculate yourself and your business from pricing objections at two distinct places in the buyer's buying process:

  1. Before they see you face-to-face, by communicating your meaningful difference, and

  2. After they get into a one-on-one dialogue with you, by making sure that it focuses more on their emotional reasons to buy, not intellectual.
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