In this brief multi‑speaker discussion, the participants explore how sales messaging should differ when targeting low‑income versus high‑income prospects. They argue that sellers should emphasize affordability, budget constraints, and create emotional urgency for poorer buyers, while highlighting exclusivity, convenience, and return on investment for wealthier buyers. Both groups, however, need clear, simple language and a confident, authoritative tone; authority works regardless of income level. The conversation notes that wealthier individuals tend to be more predisposed to take action when an offer makes sense, whereas poorer prospects require stronger emotional triggers. The speakers also reference Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, suggesting that low‑income prospects are focused on basic survival needs, while affluent prospects are concerned with higher‑order aspirations. Understanding these differing pain points and motivations is presented as key to closing more deals.
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If you're selling to poor people, talk affordability and budget. If you're selling to wealthy, talk exclusivity, convenience and roi. Use simple, direct language. Use confident, refined language.
So what he's getting at is, yes.
People who are wealthy and people who are poor tend to focus and value different things.
Now, I don't really know the big.
Difference between your language being refined and it being simple. Right. Both kind of mean the same thing. So when you're selling to poor people, right, People who don't have money and you're selling to rich people, both of them need to understand it. It's not that rich people are so much smarter than poor people, generally speaking. Right. For some people, that's the case.
It's just that typically people who are more wealthy, they have more of a.
Inclination to take action.
So they're more predisposed just to take.
Action when something makes sense.
You need to make it simple for both.
Just oftentimes when it comes to people who, you know, just don't have that.
Lot of money or they're not used.
To taking action, you're going to need to more in the emotion, create more urgency. But how you explain it doesn't really change too much. It's just that, you know, people with more money, they're more inclined just to take action.
So with this as well, like when you're talking to poor people, when you're talking to people with money, you want to be authoritative in both, right? Like poor people and rich people, they're both human beings. So it's not that, oh, authority only works on rich people. Authority also works right on poor people, Right. Grew up around poor people my entire life. So, yes, be authoritative no matter who you're selling to. That's the key thing. But, yeah, do understand that generally speaking.
People who have money and people who don't have money, they tend to have different focuses. People who don't have money, their needs that they need to be met are more fundamental, which means, like survival, variety, different things on those lines. They're going to be lower down on Maslow's hierarchy. If you understand what Maslow's hierarchy is.
Rich people, their needs that they have.
Come to sales call to be met, they're just going to be higher up. So you just got to understand where's their pain. If you understand the difference between the two, like, don't be just authoritative with rich people. Be authoritative in all your sales calls, you close more deals.
But overall, I get the.
I get the idea of what he's going for which it does make sense.
