One To Many Selling

One to one selling is your typical “face to face selling” or direct selling approach.

Normally the process goes something along the lines of:

You phone the contact a number of times.

When you finally get hold of them you look to convince them to have a meeting with you.

You drive to your appointment.

You spend an hour with the person finding out their business, and presenting what you have to offer.

They say call me back in two weeks while they think about it.

Then you ring the person again a number of times trying to get in touch to see if they’ve had a chance to decide.

When you do get hold of them, you find out they’ve been buys and they hadn’t had a chance to review it, and they ask you to ring them back in about two weeks.

And so the process continues until you get a yes or no.

Sound familiar?

And if they are not, it starts over again.

At the end of the day, one to one selling wastes a whole lot of time and resources.

The process is so high-touch and often low-tech requiring so much time for what is often little to no result.

So, now we are in the digital age, isn’t it time to put smarter techniques in place?

One that doesn’t waste your time and sap your energy day after day?

One that doesn’t make your heart sink when because the client is focused on the price and not the value?

The truth is that the a switched on sales person is not experiencing these issues.

Apart from the inordinate amount of time you waste just trying to make contact with a person, there’s all the time you have to endure to educated a person.

Time to Educate.

Think for a moment, how often you’ve gone through the same story, overview, education process with each of those contacts.

If you spent 30 minutes each appointment educating your prospect, and you are seeing 3 prospects per day.

That’s 32.5 hours per month you are spending saying the same thing over and over and over again.

That’s almost 10 weeks of your year saying the same thing.

How depressing is that?

Pricing Objections

And then if that is not enough, then you get those dreaded price objections, right?

And that because you haven’t had enough time to properly educate the person around the benefits of your service.

If you had the luxury of time and you were able to really educate them well over a period of time they’d recognise the value and buy without hesitation.

Urgency

It’s really difficult to get potential buyers to act with some degree of urgency.

So often when you are in the appointment it’s very hard to create the urgency for them to purchase.

While you can uncover their need, typically you again don’t have the time to get them to feel a sense of urgency.

They may want to confer with others about the decision. While they don’t necessarily NEED to do this, they want to, and that takes away the urgency.

You maybe selling a nice to have it’s hard to build up the urgency of purchasing a “nice to have” instead of “need to have” in that appointment.

And near impossible to do over the phone or by email for most potential buyers.

You Don’t Hit Your Targets

The downside I’ve seen from one to one selling is that you can often be in a situation where your not hitting your targets.

And while the logic of numbers tell you can achieve your target, the reality is, with needing to book your appointment, do the appointment, follow up, and then keep your diary full, you end up having a busy week and then a quiet week.

Resulting in not hitting your targets.

Sound familiar?

Hamster Wheel

You constantly yo-yo from fest to famine and it's exhausting.

You can't serve the number of people you want to have the impact you desire.

Bathtub Marketing - and securing the Plug

Imagine your bath for a moment.

You have the bath itself for holding the water, your prospect and clients.

Your have a hot tap and  cold tap for adding water, that you can turn on and off and adjust as required, this is your traffic and marketing efforts;

the plug hole for draining the bath, the general market that is trying to take your clients,

and lastly your bath plug to stop the water from draining away, which is your processes for nurturing and retaining clients, and converting prospects into clients (a.k.a. Sales Funnel).

Your Filter is called One to Many Selling.

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Because you are selling a service, it’s an educational sell.

When you educate people in a group rather than one to one, you can quickly filter out the people that aren’t ready or right.

Then the people that are ready, you can begin to see if they are a rock or gold.

Here’s what that looks like.

1. Traffic
2. Funnel
3. Platform
4. Presentation
5. Followup (Discovery Call)

Your One-To-Many Selling System is SUPPORTED by

• Your Membership Platform

Not having a framework will make you spin your tyres and and go into overwhelm.

1. Positions You as an Authority

A One-To-Many selling system is a high value and low-cost way to acquire new business opportunities by positioning you as an authority and industry expert.

By demonstrating your profound knowledge and expertise to one person in face-to-face conversation, you get an opportunity to build trust relationships.

When doing so for a wider audience, you pave your way to gain credibility of masses and establish yourself as an authority.

2. Saves Your Time

How much time is needed to educate each prospect?

30 – 40 minutes?

Add your travel time and the time you need to book the appointment, and you get an hour (if not more) in total.

But if you are repeating the same presentation over and over again, all you have to do is set up a system which would allow you to address all your prospects at one time.

It will automate your efforts and save you a great deal of time, which you could leverage to look into new strategies, develop new products or even take a vacation.

3. Scales Up Your Business Automatically

A One-To-Many selling system means that you deliver your message en-masses, which increases your audience exponentially.

4. Condense the Sales Cycle

A One-To-Many selling system condenses your normal sales cycle.

If it usually takes you seven day to 2 weeks to contact a prospect and take them from cold to sold, you’ll find a One-To-Many selling system can often achieve that same effect in just two or less.

5. Educate and Sell in One Sittings

We all know people buy on emotion.

It’s often based on the feelings and emotions you feel right then and there.

When you are selling One-To-Many, you're doing it through education.

You can reset the buying criteria that they came in with, and educate them on how to make a better buying choice related to what they desire, and show them how your service delivers that.

6. Creates Importance

A One-To-Many selling system is event based.

There is a difference to watching a comedy show, a concert or sporting event TV compared with seeing it live and in person.

There is something unique and different about being part of a live event.

A One-To-Many selling system delivered live will create that same feeling.

People place more of a priority on it when it’s live, compared to recorded.

Here are four simple ways of selling one to many.

Live Events or Workshops

Free or low cost events, workshops or meetups lasting several hours are =the great ways to get hot leads into your business.

People who come to your meetup are not the random captive audience, they already expressed their interest in you and your business.

The upside of a live event or a workshop is that you don’t have to go into any technical details of the complicated technical equipment. All you need is yourself and your amazing presentation and speaking skills.

Certainly, workshop or event would entail some overheads, but it is still a great investment – you will get the chance to talk to people face-to-face!

Facebook Live

A new and popular Facebook feature, which allows you to make spontaneous callouts for your audience, update them on the news, share your thoughts, express your creativity, engage them and what not.

Apart from an opportunity to create interactive experiences for your community, it is an instant, real-time source of content.

The tool is great to find out your audience opinion, conduct polls and engage with your followers through answering their comments and enquiries in real time.

The important thing to remember here is to inform your community on your Facebook Live beforehand.

Again, all you need to hold a live session on Facebook is your device and Facebook account.

There is a variety of tools that allow to do so, such as social media and live-streaming platforms.

You will have no choice but to deal with the tech setup here, but if you are exploring innovative ways to engage with your audience in real time, give it a short!

All these types are pre-scheduled and require you to inform your audience beforehand, but think of the time you save when you announce the scheduled time of your session, rather than making an appointment with every prospect individually.

There is no guarantee that you’ll get a huge audience, but you can use it to your advantage. Take it as a ‘pre-filter’ – people who opt in, care about your brand and find your content extremely useful. Thus, you are automatically targeting people who are more likely to convert and follow you further.

All the ways mentioned have their technical peculiarities and require definite pre-session marketing efforts, but they all serve one beneficial purpose for you – you can speak and sell to the masse and save a great deal of time!

Here is a case study on Christina Force and how we have helped her with her photography and consultancy business.

Her coaching consultancy business was going really well.  She had developed really good content for that. She was quite systems-minded, and she started using a marketing automation software, Infusionsoft.

At the time I met that her, her group-based programme was still actually very time intensive as she was doing an eight programme, doing a webinar once a week with that small group of around 10 to 15 people.

However, the problem was, she was she was also then doing a 30-minute one-on-one session with each of those participants individually.

All this was overwhelming her and making her feel really tired.

Just after I met her she sent me this email.

If someone else got that email maybe you’d have said, “ok, fair enough”.

I knew the value in a leveraged one-to-many selling system, I knew how to put the tech in place. I knew what she delivered was real value to her clients!

I went back and said let’s give it 30 days and let’s put in place a proper system.

First of all, I setup a solid content marketing campaign for her, to her list, which was only just 498 people, so not a very big list at all.

So with that list of 498 people, we put in place a simple sales page and a registration process for a webinar that she was going to deliver.

The purpose of this was just to execute an event based marketing strategy where there was a webinar, it was going to be live on a certain time and so we were focused on getting people to register for that webinar from her list.

It also allowed us to do that in a way where we could use a process that I call B-cubed, which is about putting in place a buyer behavior based marketing to the people.

Which is really just all about marketing to them in a way that they were interacting with the content that they're receiving, so we could customize the journey for them towards registering for that webinar.

The result of that was that?

First of all, we got a hundred people onto her webinar.

30 days later, and I mean 30 days exactly, I got this email from her saying.

I’ve had a crazy few days - I now have 11 people confirmed on my programme 🙂 Thanks for your help on all this- I couldn’t have done it without you!

Guess what that resulted in?

$54,000 in revenue banked in less than 30 days.

All with a list of just 498 people!!

We didn’t spend thousands on Facebook ads or other advertising. We just did a solid marketing campaign to her list. And she delivered the service in a leveraged way too.