Many sellers struggle with pushing clients to close a deal because they don't want to appear too strong. In this episode of the Sales Evangelist podcast, host Donald Kelly speaks with L'areal Lipkins, a B2B sales team consultant. L'areal shares insightful questions to drive urgency and motivate prospects to act more quickly.

Who Is L’areal Lipkins?

• L'areal owns Lipkins Consulting Group and works with B2B sales teams to sell value.

• She helps teams optimize their sales processes by applying guided strategies and psychology. 

• Through her teachings, sales teams can understand why they're doing things and not only focus on selling tactics. 

• She helps people make more money!

The Problem With Urgency

• There are two types of salespeople: those who are too pushy and those who wait to close a deal. 

• Don’t make the mistake of conversing too long or coming off too strong. It can cost you money!

• Use the Whole Pie framework to create value and urgency with enriching questions.

What Is the Whole Pie Framework?

• The Whole Pie framework uncovers the real problem prospects are having and helps sellers to dive deeper into discovering it.

• Sellers ask three types of questions: problem, impactful, and emotional.

• With the framework, sellers can show prospects that their situation is important to them and they want to fix the problem.

Problem Questions

• These questions involve what prospects are comfortable discussing. 

• Sellers don't have to dive too deep into finding the problem.

• Problem questions include, "Tell me about that" or "When did you first notice this?"

• 80% of sellers make the mistake of selling the problem!

Impact Questions

• These create a ripple effect of discovering actions prospects actions in making sales. 

• How is it impacting the team, company, and association?

• Only 10% of sellers ask impact questions!

• Why don't sellers ask more impactful questions? The two reasons are the need for more training and learning to use their words.

Emotion Questions

• Most salespeople don't ask these questions because they don't want to get too personal. Only the elite sellers dive this deep!

• Emotion questions are "I'm so tired of this not working" or "I feel overwhelmed."

• Sellers discover the personal impact that's keeping prospects from closing a deal.

“But we all have problems; we're not going to pay enough, we're not going to pay because they're not big enough to solve.” - L’areal Lipkins

Do you want to make more money? Of course, you do! Connect with L’areal Lipkins and follow the Sales Evangelist podcast to become a better seller.

Resources

L’areal Lipkins LinkedIn

Lipkins Consulting Group

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