Go ahead, sell me this pen. Today I'm
gonna teach you how to sell anything, to anyone, any time. Now, when it comes to
selling, when it comes to closing, there's so many techniques and so many ways. Today, I'm gonna share with you three powerful secrets that you can use to sell
anything to anyone. The very first secret is this. How do you turn something
that's a commodity. How do you sell a product, how do you sell a service in
such a noisy marketplace. Number one, understand this. People don't buy because of logic. People buy because of emotions and they justify it with logic. People
buy based on emotions and they justify with logic. I want you to think of something that you want to buy in your life. It could be a car, it could be a house, it
could be anything. Just want you to picture that. Once you have that in your
mind I want you to ask yourself this question: Why do you want to buy it?
Why do you want to buy the particular item? Why do you want to own that item
Why is that? Maybe it's a new suit. It looks good on you. Maybe it's a
new dress, maybe it's a new car, maybe it's a new house, maybe it's that vacation, but why do you buy it? I want you to dig a little bit deeper. If you pierce through
the layers, I think you'll realize you are buying emotions. Maybe you buy the
item because of greed. You want to make money, or you wanna save money, or maybe it's because of generosity that by buying this item, it's gonna help other
people. Have you noticed sometimes even there are companies out there if you buy
this particular product they donate a certain amount to charities. Maybe you
buy because of generosity. Maybe because of shame that if I don't buy this
I'll look foolish. If I don't own this I'll look foolish. Or maybe it's fear that if
I don't buy this I'm gonna be missing out. I don't want to miss out.
Maybe it's an escape that you go on the vacation, your 9 to 5 job is driving you
fuckin crazy and you say, "Aw man, I need some time off." Maybe doing it,
buying it because of escape. Whatever those reasons are, those are
very often emotional reasons. So you buy because of emotion and you justify it
with logic. So think about when you're selling something to somebody. Are you
just talking about features and benefits? What this thing would do for you, or are
you pushing those emotional hot buttons? I remember one time I was in Harry Rosen, which is very well-known kind of men's menswear store, high-end, in Vancouver. I
walk into the store and I was walking by the Tom Ford section. And the salesman
approached me and said, "Sir, well is there anything I can help you with?"
I said, "No I'm just browsing around" and he said, "Do me a favor, put this suit on."
Now, at the time I've never owned a Tom Ford suit before. I have a lot of suits
but I don't have a Tom Ford suit. He said do me a favor, put this on. I said alright. I put it on. So how do you feel? Well it feels pretty good. Okay, also
try this on, put on this tuxedo. I said okay that's pretty good. Oh it looks great. He
said Sir, are you a fan of James Bond? I said who isn't a fan of James Bond like duh. You see this suit right here,
this tuxedo? It's the exact suit, exact same design as he, James Bond, wears in Casino Royale. You know the scene? When he was gambling?
Fuck! It looks good, right? And before you know it, I bought the damn fucking
tuxedo, right, and it's a lot of money. Cost a lot of money. And if you think
about that, what am i buying? I'm buying emotions. What I'm buying is this. I'm buying when I wear this tuxedo, I feel good, as a James Bond fan, I feel
like James Bond. Even logically I know this of course is not James Bond, I'm not
James Bond. But emotionally, it takes me there! This is cool that I own, you know I
wear the same tuxedo, the same fit, the same everything.
And then he up sold me on the damn like the shirt, and the cuff-links, the whole
nine yard, right. That's what I'm talking about. People buy because of emotions and they justify it with logic. You have to
understand that. Don't push your products. Don't just push your services. Don't push
the features and benefits. Think about what are those emotional hot buttons that
you're pushing. Number two, people don't buy their way into something. They buy
their way out of something. It means people very often they buying something
because they have a problem they want solved. They want to buy their way out of
that problem. People don't buy the drill, they want a hole on the wall. So what is
it that you are, you're helping them solve that what problem, what is it, what
is that thing you have to understand. So I always say the amount of money that
you make is in direct proportion to how deep you understand your marketplace's
pain. The amount of money you make is in direct proportion of how well, how
deep you go, how much you understand your marketplace's pain. So you have to
understand what it is, what are the pains that people have and how can
you help them relieve some of that pain? So think about that. Number three, people
don't buy products and services. They buy stories. Because when there are so many
choices out there in the marketplace, on the Internet,
any product that you want, there are hundreds and hundreds of choices.
How do you stand out? How do you add emotions to a commodity, a pen? What's the
difference between a $2.00 pen like this or an $800 Montblanc, John F Kennedy,
limited edition, exclusive pen? $800 pen? It's the same pen, it has the same
functions. Story. When you add story to an item, suddenly, when you add the
the John F Kennedy, the president story, attached to a brand, to a logo, it
is ten times more valuable. It is a hundred times more valuable. It is 300
times more valuable. That particular pen. All because a story.
It writes the same. A $2.00 pen, you can write too. That's the difference. So think
about what's the story? How can you inject stories into
everything that you do? Maybe it's your origin story. How did you get started? Why do you do what you do? What of also stories of your customers? I just
launched a new YouTube channel you can click on the link below, I put a
link below in the description you can check it out. That's the Dan Lok
Global Community on YouTube. It has nothing to do with the program that I
teach. It has everything to do with stories. It's stories from my students,
what they have learned, their background, their stories. Has nothing to do with me,
has nothing to do with the program that I run, has nothing to do with that,
but stories. It's other people's stories, other people's success stories. So where
are you using stories in your marketing, in your business? How else can you use
stories? Remember, facts tell, stories sell. Facts tell, stories sell. So, comment below.
Tell me, based on these three secrets, how will you sell me this pen? Go ahead,
comment below, and sell me this pen.
