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IT Sales: Discover the Urgency of Their Needs
By Joshua Feinberg
During an initial IT consultations, you want to take your clients to the next step, like a site survey. Sometimes prospects will jump right on that. But, what if they say, "I’ll let you know; I’ll get back to you," and that’s as far as you get? You shouldn't even get to this reaction. In this article you'll learn how you need to find out how important the project is to your prospects in order to get IT sales.

If the prospects tell you that they want to migrate from DOS-based fax software to 32-bit fax software, that they want to be able to fax to PDAs out in the field or they want to set up VPNs between offices, you need to figure out if this is a distant wish, a possible project, or something they have really committed to. It’s important to get a sense of how important this project is to them to get the IT sales.

You can ask them things

like:

o Ideally if everything looks good, when would you like to get started?
o How important is the project?
o When would you like to get started?
o What’s holding you back from getting started now?
o Why haven’t you done this in the past?

This will help give you an idea of where they are in the process of IT sales.

Their Needs May Have Changed

Maybe they’ve looked into this in the past and they’ve thought it was prohibitively expensive. Or maybe they’ve looked into it in the past and they’ve determined it’s impossible. It may be a bigger solution challenge or needs analysis challenge than they anticipated.

If All Else Fails, Ask Direct Questions

If, however, even after figuring out the urgency level, you still are getting the blow off about IT sales, you can ask direct questions without being pushy, like:

o When do you think is a good time for me to follow up with you?
o When do you think you’ll be in a better position for us to talk about this again?

The Bottom Line about IT Sales

Always keep in a mind that not all no’s today are no’s tomorrow. The key to understanding which are comes from learning as much as you can about your prospect, their problem, and their urgency.

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