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What's Included in the PDF?
  • Introduction
    • How does the Business Imperative Analysis fit into the Buying Process?
    • Why our Business Imperative Tool?
  • Analysing the Business Imperative
    • The Current Situation
    • The Desired Situation
    • What needs to be done
    • The Pain
    • The Pleasure
    • The Stoppers
    • I Wish I Knew (I.W.I.K)
  • Using the Imperative Tool
    • Develop your Hypothesis
    • Test your Hypothesis
    • Use in the Proposal
    • Using in Future
    • Imperative Example
  • About Firstborder
    • A Note from Colin Wilson
    • What's an Entrepreneurial Salesman?
  • The Imperative Tool
It's essential to understand the reasons a customer needs to buy if you're going to be successful selling your solution. Work through key questions with your customers and help them realise the benefits of action or the pain of failing to act.

It's essential to understand the reasons a customer needs to buy if you're going to be successful selling your solution. Knowing 'why?' and being able to describe the reasons to your customer leads to two key benefits: you increase the customer's level of trust in you and you put yourself in a good position to influence the final buying decision.

Understanding your prospect's need is the first and crucial stage in helping them to buy. It's fundamental if you want to sell with integrity or simply if you want to be successful at selling. Understanding and finding out if there is a real need is also the first step in qualifying a prospect correctly.

Without a 'need', there is often no sale.


Why our Imperative Analysis Tool?

When you complete your Business Imperative Analysis according to the guidelines in the tool, you will possess an invaluable document.

The Imperative Analysis will allow you to establish a relationship with your customer based on trust - you will show that you understand their business environment and the issues which have the greatest impact on the sector. More than that, after working through the output with your customer, you will have the bulk of your proposal's executive summary written - and in your customer's words.


What do I get?

The Imperative Analysis tool is delivered as a PDF file. Download this tool for free - you may share it, post it, print it, or copy it for personal use.


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