NeuroSelling

As a founder of BrainTrust, a successful organization that trains and develops sales and marketing professionals, Jeff Bloomfield has given a lot of thought to why customers say yes. In Story-Based Selling: Create, Connect, and Close, Mr. Bloomfield says it's really no mystery. People buy from people they trust. They trust people they like, and they like people they connect with. And he believes that storytelling is the best way for salespeople-and all of us-to immediately connect to a customer's feelings of trust. He thinks teaching sales professionals to close a deal by presenting their product, probing its mutual benefits, and overcoming the customer's objections and skepticism is a waste of time. Instead, he urges them to tell a great story to create a personal connection, then use visual storytelling to demonstrate credibility with your solution. Mr. Bloomfield calls upon the latest research in neuroscience to explain the process of communication. The truth is that during the salesperson's engagement with clients, people quickly base their decisions on how they feel, not the way they think, so trying to persuade someone by first imparting lifeless facts and figures is self-defeating. In fact, this information goes right to an area of the listener's brain (the left brain neocortex) that drives doubt and skepticism. To make a deal we need to connect with the parts of the customer's brain that inspire emotions of trust and empathy. By telling a story, we can immediately connect to these good gut feelings and drive away the client's fear of being sold. Mr. Bloomfield tells his own engaging stories while teaching step-by-step techniques of intentional storytelling to create a fast connection with the listener, no matter who is buying or what a person wants to sell.

Your business lives and dies by your customer conversations.Shouldn't you have those down to a science?
If you're tired of having to justify your price...of offering discounts to close the deal...of long sales cycles...of customers who can't seem to make a decision, then you need NeuroSelling®, the only customer conversation tool grounded in neuroscience and behavioral psychology.
But NeuroSelling® is more than just theory-it's a step-by-step, practical communication methodology honed by years of field experience, resulting in millions in new revenue in industries as diverse as biotech, financial services, manufacturing, and engineering.
Start communicating in a way that:
-Builds personal and professional trust faster
-Naturally drives urgency to buy
-Creates an automatic commitment to change
In this book, you'll also read the stories of a sales rep who went from the bottom half of his sales organization to becoming rep of the year, as well as the dark-horse executive candidate who became CEO, chosen over three more experienced leaders.
No matter your situation, successful selling begins and ends with the customer conversation.