Patricia Fripp: How to Use Great Storytelling to Build Your Consulting Business

 

Simple structure. Good opening, so you can grab the audience and it’s the spice of what comes in. Look at feeling acquaintance, which comes from: 1) attention contact, 2) what I would call the more you-focused on those discussions, and through tales. As a consultant I am sure you, you talk about and you give examples of huge bag biographies: the clients that you have helped, which will be a model for the prospect you’re now talking to.

They will understand your process. And one huge floor model to follow is: place, mixture, success. What is the status when your buyer first called you? What was the mixture of what you did? And what was the success – the happy ever after? And then what we want to do is we are seeking to colonize our tales with flesh and blood reputations that our audience of our prospects can relate to. And it’s very important in the situation and the success that the words are of the words of your clients. For example…this is a very simple instance: one of your best friend was a sales administrator of the Fairmont Hotel and the working day he called and added,” Heeelp! Patricia, as you are familiar with, I’m a great salesman one-on-one.

Nonetheless, I have the opportunity to speak to an eight-person committee. They’re staying at the Fairmont for a love errand, and if they introduce their convention to San Francisco they’re going to come to the Fairmont, but they’re seriously considering San Diego. But I’m really nervous that I have to stand up and tell .” I added,” Well let’s step backwards. What are you selling? ” He added,” I’m not really selling the Fairmont. That’s a passed. It’s selling San Francisco .” I added, “Good.” And “youve never” smack your challenger.” How long do you have to speak ?”” Seven minutes .”” What is it worth to the Fairmont if you get the business ?” He added, “$ 500,000.” I added,” Let me get this right.

You have seven minutes to impel $500,000. That is $1,0 two seconds, even when you pause. So turn left your own resources, how would you start this presentation ?” He added,” Well, I’m really glad that you’ll stay at the Fairmont and you’ll have a great time and genuinely if you select us and we’ll are beyond the call of duty .” I added,” You’re being very polite, but you’ve consumed $20,000 and you haven’t said anything .”[ Audience Laughter]” Why don’t you try such an approach ?” Because understand the situation.

He’s been demo them around. They know him. He’s on the agenda. They innovate him and he marches up and does,” In the next seven minutes you will decide, best available decision you can make for your association and your members is to bring your convention to San Francisco and the Fairmont. Five’ you’ or’ yours ,’ one’ Fairmont ,’ that is an feeling acquaintance. Then,” San Diego is a elegant destination, and you should go there, another year. Nonetheless, the reason you should come to San Francisco this year are … specific, specific, specific, specific .” This is intellectual, analytical rationales that they can go by and vindicate why they make their choice. Then at the end, “… and realize, years from now, when your pattern attendees are sitting around a pattern hall reminiscing about best available agreements they ever listened and they recollect the one in San Francisco, at the Fairmont, when you were the planning committee .”[ Audience Laughter] You know from volunteering in your own arrangements there’s a lot more act than there’s glorification. Now did he speak,” Come now and I will make sure you go down in your association autobiography ?” He didn’t say that, but you think they might have thought it.

See, feeling opening and close, analytical rationales in between.[ Patricia’s voiceover] Clients hire me to help them have the competitive advantage that comes from being more powerfully credible than the challenger. Are you speaking to be remembered and recurred? When you commit me to speak at your fulfill or occasion, my material can be delivered as a theme or a breakout discussion. Many of my clients hire me for both. Let’s have a dialogue. [# FrippVT].

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