I hear this all the time from new entrepreneurs:
“I need a website!”
And I always ask why?
And the response is:
“So I can sell my product, service or solution.”
Wrong!
You don’t need a website.
In fact, all you need to sell your product, service or solution is:
- A prospect;
- A sales script; and
- A receipt book.
Nothing more, nothing less.
I then ask them if they carry around a receipt book.
And they say, “no”.
How in the hell are they going to sell anything without a way of taking money?
Beyond that, a website only scales marketing and sales.
What I mean by scale is that a website can market and sell as effetely to one prospect as it can to 1,000,000 prospects.
If you have a new product, service or solution, you’re simply not at that stages yet.
You already know their needs, which gives you:
- Your pipeline;
- Communication;
- Sales; and
- Content.
How do I know this?
Because you don’t know:
- The qualifiers that make prospects customers; and
- The objections they have.
The only way you will know this is selling initially one-on-one to find these out.
Once you know them you can start to automate them by adding:
- Your qualifiers to your pipeline; and
- Their objections to your sales scripts.
But never before.
So if you are going to market and sell online, you need to start by marketing and selling offline, manually first.