{"id":1773,"date":"2008-10-31T09:04:03","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T14:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2008-10-31T07:05:56","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T12:05:56","slug":"probing-for-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/10\/probing-for-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Probing For Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saleshq.com has an excellent article for any salesperson in any market &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saleshq.com\/training\/1169-do-you-probe-for-pain\" target=\"_blank\">Do You Probe For Pain?<\/a>\u00a0 We use the term &#8220;pain&#8221; in our discussions though it sounds a bit dramatic.\u00a0 Even so, it is the most descriptive word for qualifying.\u00a0 The article explains why:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People are fundamentally motivated in two main ways:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. <\/strong>What problem or pain they can avoid and move away from<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. <\/strong>What pleasure or benefit they can move towards<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is absolutely true.\u00a0 The key here is that people move away from pain faster than they move towards pleasure.\u00a0 As described later in the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If a prospect feels content with their current supplier or their current situation, then it will be a huge challenge to motivate them to want to buy your product or service. That\u2019s why every pain your prospect feels is an opportunity for you. Your task, during the initial fact-finding stage, is to uncover their \u2018pain\u2019 and help them to dwell on their problems.<\/p>\n<p>The stronger the pain or the bigger their problem, the greater their motivation will be to move away from it. If you can convince prospects that your organisation can reduce one or more of their \u2018pains\u2019, then you will have suddenly discovered a powerful way to unleash their motivation to buy from you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Finally, here are some excellent pain probes for any salesperson:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhat areas of your current situation don\u2019t you like?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWhat is this costing your organisation each year?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cHow do you feel about (problem)?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWho else is aware of these issues?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cHow do they feel about it?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWhy haven\u2019t you tackled this before?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cHow do your issues compare to those in similar organisations?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWhich of these problems is causing you the most concern?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWhat have you done in the past that\u2019s not worked?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWhen did you begin noticing this issue?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWhy is this such an issue for you?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWhen will you decide to resolve this?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These items are just skimming off the top of this article so as they say, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saleshq.com\/training\/1169-do-you-probe-for-pain\" target=\"_blank\">read the entire thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saleshq.com has an excellent article for any salesperson in any market &#8211; Do You Probe For Pain?\u00a0 We use the term &#8220;pain&#8221; in our discussions though it sounds a bit dramatic.\u00a0 Even so, it is the most descriptive word for qualifying.\u00a0 The article explains why: People are fundamentally motivated in two main ways: 1. What problem or pain they can avoid and move away from 2. What pleasure or benefit they can move towards That is absolutely true.\u00a0 The key here is that people move away from pain faster than they move towards pleasure.\u00a0 As described later in the article: If a prospect feels content with their current supplier or&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/10\/probing-for-pain\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[1067,1068,184,149,211,142],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-sB","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1774,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions\/1774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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