Crafting a Persuasive Sales Pitch (Part 2)

Today we continue our conversation on translating your positioning into a sales pitch. You’ll learn: • Popular pitch structures (discovery-led, problem-solution, venture-informed) and where they fall short • Common problems to avoid when crafting your sales pitch • Why the “new way” doesn’t necessarily beat the “old way” • How focusing on the future of your product can backfire • What conventional storytelling techniques can teach you about pitching • A tried and true storytelling structure that works for sales pitches — In This Episode, I Cover: (00:00) Sales pitches and product walkthroughs (05:35) The discovery-led sales pitch (08:35) The problem-solution sales pitch (10:26) The venture-informed sales pitch (13:22) Old way vs new way (16:33) No decision losses (17:43) Takeaways from the standard pitch structures we’ve covered (18:29) Conventional storytelling: where it does and does not work (22:23) The IBM sales pitch structure (the challenger sales methodology) (25:23) How to start your pitch and the vital components to include (28:50) My upcoming book — Where To Find April Dunford: Podcast Website: https://www.positioning.show/ Personal Website: https://www.aprildunford.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprildunford/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aprildunford/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/aprildunford — Referenced: • Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen: https://www.amazon.com/Building-StoryBrand-Clarify-Message-Customers/dp/0718033329/ • Star Wars: https://www.starwars.com/ • Matt Dixon on The Positioning Show: https://www.positioning.show/overcoming-customer-indecision-and-challenging-conventional-sales-wisdom-with-matt-dixon/ — Production and marketing by https://penname.co/