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Make it easier for a busy buyer

Jill Konrath

Konrath’s SNAP Selling addresses the realities of selling to busy buyers. Her work encourages sellers to reduce the effort required to understand a relevant opportunity.

The SalesCoach takeaway

Make your relevance easy to understand.

An independent SalesCoach interpretation with an original exercise.

Remove the extra work

Lead with the business issue instead of your company history. Explain what the buyer needs to understand without making them decode internal terminology.

Choose one clear ask

A message with several requests creates more work. Offer a small, relevant next step that is proportionate to the relationship.

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Treat each response as information about your assumptions. Adjust the message when buyers consistently misunderstand its relevance.

Make it yours

One thing to try.

Take a 200-word outreach email and reduce it to 80 words. Preserve the relevant reason, a credible point of value, and one clear question.

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Sources & further reading.

For further study: SNAP Selling.

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