"Tell Them The Price Son" - Karl Goodman, Founder.
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If you are over 30 and born in Australia, you grew up with the advertisement on television by the Little Doer Carpet Company?that became famous for saying:
"Tell em the price, son."
In this famous 16-second advert, the son was trying to sell features and benefits, while the Dad?kept on yelling:
"Tell em the price, son."
That's because the old man knew something the young man didn't.
When you've only got 16 seconds to capture someone's attention on National Television, you can't muck around.
You need to hit your prospects square between the eyes with the most important reason to buy from you.
And for the Little Doer Carpet Company, that big benefit was the price.
But unless you're the director of Plus Fitness, the chances are that your best feature isn't the price... (I'd hazard a guess and say quality might have something to do with it).
So it's best you avoid getting caught in the trap of telling a prospect the price off the bat just because they asked.
Because the chances are, they don't have the information they need to appreciate why you charge what you charge.
And I see this mistake happen all the time because no one ever had the gumption to tell you to stop.
One of my mentees asked for my advice on this very topic last night.
He'd received a text message from a prospect asking for the price via his web-to-text service on his website.
To this point, the prospect had no context and didn't know the details of my mentee's program.
More importantly, my mentee didn't know what was important to her.
Telling her the price without this important context?is the death of the sale.
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Instead, this is how I'd deal with it:
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?Our charges will vary depending on what you need, what's important to you, and what's going to suit your situation the best. I am free this afternoon to give you a call if that suits? Does 4 or 6pm suit you better?
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This response will facilitate a phone call, which is exactly what you want. When you get on the phone, remind yourself you have two ears and only one mouth.
Listen to your prospect's concerns. What are they struggling with? What have they tried before? Why hasn't it worked? What is going to be important to them?
Tailor the benefits of your program around their responses.?
Only once you're certain you know what's important to them and how you'll help them get it, should you ever consider?"telling them the price."
Only?let that number slip through your lips when you know the price is going to look like a downright bargain.
Because unless your selling proposition is centred around being cheap (which it probably isn't)...
It's pure sabotage for your business.
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Karl?Goodman
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