Upsell Strategy, Tips, and Tricks

Upsell Strategy

  • Build personal relationships
    • Rapport, rapport, rapport!
    • A true desire to help a client goes a lot further than a magnetic personality
  • Prepare ahead of time
    • Builds your confidence
    • Anticipate challenges or questions and prepare an effective response to avoid losing a sale
  • Identify and stick to your client’s character to personalize your message
    • Make sure they are a good fit fer the product/services you are pitching
    • Do not follow a script, instead learn as much as you can about the client and their shop’s needs and tailor your message.
  • Know your products and believe in what you are selling
    • Helps you gain their trust and adds value to their business
    • It is easier to be passionate about – and sell a - product when you genuinely believe in it
    • Use happy testimonials from other customers and statistics – gives you valuable social proof
  • Practice active listening and always problem solve for the customer
    • Will help you build stronger relationships but also unlock information that will help you position your product as the best option
    • Don’t oversell them on features they do not need
    • Use a consultative approach and determine what they truly need for their business
  • Send a proposal after you present, follow up and roll with rejection/know when to walk away
    • You will not win every deal. Use rejection to determine how you can improve

Tips & Tricks

  • Focus on one product per quarter to educate your clients on
  • Plant seeds/educate on every call - inform/remind of new & existing products - high level overview
  • Provide correlating promo flyer along with email proposal after your call
  • Give promo deadlines to create urgency
    • Promos are emailed out to current customer the 1st week of the quarter
  • Offering co-op, program discounts, and payment frequency options
  • Schedule a follow up with a Supervisor/Manager if they need more info/demo to solidify the sale
  • Give strategy ideas of how you would recommend best utilizing the product to get them excited
  • DO NOT think with your own wallet - customers do not understand that they have to spend money to make money
    • Also, most already have these services with another provider and this could trim down their budget and get it all under one roof
  • Remember that they are all professional sales people and will try to get a better deal
  • ASK FOR THE SALE!!
    • If they say no, ask them what it would take to move forward, or when they feel would be the right time?
    • Schedule a follow-up appointment

Sales Closing Requirements

  • Contract signed
  • Setup call scheduled
  • Billing information verified or collected via the finance team
  • Enter subscription product

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