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Everyone lover a deal to go well. Everybody understands that corporations are trying to help when they gives sales scripts. Nevertheless, people have one issue, that is – Sales Scripts Don’t work! A sales script creates a sense of discomfort for both the caller and receiver. Nobody wants to be treated simply as one of those “sale”. When we try to sell over the phone, they struggle to deliver a script that best closes the sale and also connects to the customer’s individual situation.

Certainly, the company script truly productive. This can even close deals over the phone once in a while but at what cost? The sales script can serve as a support and foundation particularly to the beginners on the company or to the entire industry itself. Unfortunately, it can also be the root of ruining the entire deal with a prospect.

WHY THEY DON’T WORK:

Sales scripts have poor outcomes because of many reasons. Seriously consider the following details for a moment:

Sales Scripts Create Rejection because:

1. Sales Scripts Transform Persons into Mere Objects- When speaking on the phone, a customer can instantly sense if they are being delivered a scripted lot of words and jargon that presupposes an outcome. When prospects sense this they know they are being sold on something it breaks that intimate connection that is required to create trust with another person.

2. Sales Scripts are a one way Pitch – Although you might feel that you can fix your script to meet each prospect’s needs and formulate a scenario that sits nicely with the listener, a script is nonetheless about YOU. A script hardly addresses the listener’s true problems or issues and this can instantly trigger tension or apprehension within a prospect.

3. A Sale Script can Corner the PROSPECT- The scripts could give out questions that were created for you to acquire certain responses that you need. However, this threatens the feelings of the prospect. You may get the answer ‘Yes’ but remember you’re giving a lot of pressure which may cause a rejection as prospects never like to be controlled or sold on something.

4. Assumptions are created by scripts- We assume as we read our scripts. We contemplate that the words on the scripts were aimed for the prospect. Well, it is hardly possible to formulate the perfect script since each one of us has a unique condition in life. How’s it possible to utter something regarding somebody we don’t know? The more assumptions you make the more resistance you create. The more assumptions there are the more people feel they are put under pressure. Thus, the best thing is not to assume anything. In addition to that, you don’t even know your customer personally.

The CORE PROBLEM:

Scriptss are biased towards the company and sales person and don’t allow for a true connection to ever evolve with a customer or prospect. The sole purpose of a script becomes convincing a customer of the importance of buying into what is being sold.

But wait- selling is not about yourself or your business. It’s about your leads and how you can relate what you market or do to their needs and troubles. In cold calling, prospects aren’t interested in your business or even to the rewards they can get. What they care about is their situations and how you might possible solve their difficulties and improve the nature of their lives.

That is the harsh truth.

So if you are tired of having the dreadful rejection, or the Hang up or the “we don’t need any of that” type of answer, you may have to check your script and see how the script itself could be inducing that response and maybe by altering your pitch from your side of the world into the prospect’s world and what you can assist them with, as opposed to SELL THEM ON, you might notice a more pleasant response. For all your great efforts it might be the inherent nature of the script itself that could be causing that rejection.

Maybe it is time to start truly connecting with your customers for the first time.

Ari Galper, founder of Unlock The Game, makes cold calling painless and simple. Learn his free cold calling secrets even the sales gurus don’t know. To receive your 10 free audio mini-lessons visit www.UnlockTheGame.com