A brief sales-training monologue advising how to respond when a prospect 'leans back' during a cold call: take control by ending the information flow, offer only minimal enticing details ('the sizzle without the steak'), and push to schedule a 30-minute follow-up (discovery/demo) to uncover pain, impact, and willingness to change.
You always lean back. There is such power in taking control of the situation and going, I'm done. I don't want to tell you anymore. It sounds like you're interested. It sounds like this would be relevant to you. Would you be opposed to scheduling 30 minutes in the next couple days, discuss this further? You're going to lean back now, if they insist that you tell them something, tell them something. I mean, don't withhold information. Don't be, don't be a jerk. Tell them a little bit about it, but as little as possible. Just the bare minimum. Just give them that sizzle without the stake. Just enough so they know that there's something there, but don't show them it yet. And that's when the discovery and demo comes in where you can then suss out the pain, the impact and the willingness to change and go through the whole sales motion.
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