Focus on Value Based Sales:

Increase Sales by Using Value Based Leadership

How can value based sales help your business grow? Use value based leadership to create a unique value proposition. Then use sales training ideas and sales training games to model how to sell value.

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Focus your small business sales on Value Based Sales.

Your Unique Value Proposition

What's unique about your business? How do you differentiate your business? Sell Value.

In today's competitive climate, most small business owners have a hard time differentiating their business from their competitors. So develop your sales differently: demonstrate value based leadership.

All your customers expect good customer service, the best quality, the best delivery, and the best price.

All your competitors say they provide the best service, the best quality, the best delivery and the best price. (Who’s going to say "I have the mediocre service, average quality, inconsistent delivery and high prices"?) That level of best is what customers have grown to expect.

So how do you differentiate yourself enough to build a brand (your business) and grow your business?

What else do you have to offer?

Focus your small business strategies and sales efforts on building a strong and unique value proposition for your business, and then build strategic relationships with targeted customers.

How do you do this? You develop sales training ideas and sales training games that model value based selling. You ensure that your sales team (even if only a team of one - you), understands clearly how value based sales works - how it engages and retains customers.

Value based selling is more than competitive pricing:

• It's about selling your products or services in a way that helps your customer gain an advantage or solution.

  Perhaps your product will save your client money and lower their costs. Perhaps your service will result in your customer being able to lower its inventory or respond better to seasonal demands on inventory.

  Whatever you focus on, make sure that your business culture accepts and supports value based selling (or customers will receive mixed messages - and that's not good).

• Work to find value in your small business that is unique – and not easily replicated by your competitors. You are selling the unique value you and your organization brings to your customer's bottom line.

  Focus on that value and develop a marketing mix strategy and a sales strategy that delivers the value to your customers.

• And if your small business is a home based business, make sure that as successful home business entrepreneur, Kennerly Clay says, 'know your worth'. And understand that you have your own unique value.

To succeed in today's global economy, you need to clearly understand your industry's economic and driving forces, the market environment you operate in, and to have an intimate knowledge of your customers' business.

When you understand the relationship between economic forces, your market environment, have completed a competition analysis and understand your customers thoroughly, you will be able to position yourself and your business to become long term solutions providers by demonstrating value based leadership.

And when you connect that relationship with marketing strategies and sales tactics, you will be able to drive sales and business growth while increasing profit margins and decreasing costs – for both you and your customer. That's the goal in value based sales.

And a value based sales approach works for both business-to-business markets or business-to-consumer markets.

Do you know what the strengths and weaknesses of your customer or prospective customer are?

Do you know what opportunity or threats your customer's business or industry faces?

Your customers want to work with business owners who understand their needs.

That means you need to focus on understanding your customer's business performance indicators and how your product or service can help them achieve their goals (e.g. reduce inventory costs; increase lead generation; increase sales to a specific market segment or demographic). A commitment to value based sales will help you grow your sales.

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