The
Secret To Sales Marketing Success
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One concept in sales marketing that is so
under used but will bring you out of sales mediocrity to
fortune and fame is a Unique Selling Proposition or USP.
Focusing on the USP in every advertising and sales marketing
effort is the key to creating super successful products and
services.
The one main reason you need to craft a
powerful USP is a problem which faces most company's today,
fierce competition for your product or service. Look around at
the numerous choices you have when purchasing cars,
televisions, cell phones, food items. You are bombarded every
day with sales marketing messages and the ones that are unique
ultimately get your attention.

So your USP must make your product or
service stand out from the crowd.
You have to stand for something that
prospects can reduce to a simple concept and store somewhere in
their mind, saying, "That's you. You will bring me these
benefits. You will solve these problems for me without these
frustrations."
Customers don't want to remember a thousand
things about you. They just want to remember something simple
and important, what you will do for them. Something problem
solving, something benefit producing, something relevant to
their interests.
You must try to get into your customer's
mind as being first. You want to become the biggest or best at
something. You want to become known as "number one" for
providing some benefit they desire.
This is a key sales marketing principle. If
you are seeking to dominate a market in a competitive
environment, one of the best things you can do is to be first
in your customer's mind.
If you can lay claim in a customer's mind as
being first for some special feature, promise or benefit before
everyone else claims it, then in their minds you can "own" that
sales marketing promise. You can be "the person," "the product"
or "the business" that satisfies that particular claim.
All you have to then do is live up to your
reputation - and maintain your product's quality or your
services as you promised so that this belief manifests in fact
and is continually supported.
Just imagine what would have happened if
M&M candies melted in your hand!
Live up to your reputation and you'll
quickly own a secure spot in a customer's mind that will be
hard to displace.
To become first in your customer's mind you
must paint a simple, memorable, consistent and appealing
picture of who you are, what you stand for, and what you're
going to do that's attractive and compelling to them. You must
make an outrageously exciting promise of service or benefit to
the customer.
Furthermore, you must make it abundantly
clear how you're unique and dramatically different from
everyone else in delivering on those benefits, and everything
you say must be entirely believable.
Basically, your USP is a distinct,
compelling sales strategy that separates you from all your
competitors and answers the question, "Why should I do business
with you rather than your competitors . or rather than doing
nothing at all?"
If you construct an attractive USP and then
plaster it everywhere in your advertising and sales marketing,
and if you consistently keep hammering away at presenting your
USP over and over again to the consumer's mind, in time you
will gain the majority of market-share for your product or
service. It takes patience, but it's been done time and time
again.
Dominoes did it with their now famous
USP:
"Hot, fresh pizza delivered in 30 minutes or
less, guaranteed."
Then they topped it off with another great
sales marketing idea, a guarantee.
By developing a strong USP you will have
established the perfect marketing strategy to win business from
your competitors, put a stop to all the negotiations with
clients about your prices, and build a brand image that can
rocket you to stardom. It's all about building a USP.
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Jim Klein
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Readers' Comments 
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"I am a salesperson for more than
15 years. I agree that Unique Selling Proposition
(USP) is very important
as It differentiates between your
product/service against your competitors. For
example, McDonald's USP is serving fast and
fresh burgers in a clean, modern and
friendly environment."
Mathew
Tan
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