Selling Isn’t about Pushing Features It’s about Diagnosing – Patrick Renvoise Podcast

Host Paul Petersen on CRM Radio interviews Patrick Renvoise, co-author of The Persuasion Code: How Neuromarketing Can Help You Persuade Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime and president and co-founder of SalesBrain the original neuromarketing agency.  Paul and Pat discuss the research behind the current book (September of 2018) and the book that started it all, Neuromarketing: Understanding the Buy Buttons in Your Customer's Brain. 

----more----Patrick reveals why traditional thoughts into a buyer’s preference for a product is based on false research and how the Persuasion Code can be used by anyone to increase revenue if they understand the basic principles.  For instance:

• There is solid research, clinical research, not hunches or opinions behind the current book's recommendations for sales and marketing tactics that win
• Selling isn't about pushing features and benefits, it's about asking questions to diagnose the prospect's problems
• There are only three stages of selling: Diagnosis, Selling and educating
  • Educating helps the competitor as much as you the salesperson
  • Selling without diagnosis is the surest way to fail
  • Diagnosis should take up 80% of the discussion with the prospect
• Diagnosis of the pain is the first step in the sales process, without you will lsoe more than you win

About the Persuasion Code

The Persuasion Code: How Neuromarketing Can Help You Persuade Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime is available from all fine booksellers. This book, published by Wiley, was written by Dr. Christophe Morin and Patrick Renvoise and focuses on influencing your audience with the use of brain sciences. Get on the cutting edge of neuroscience from a book written by the team behind the world’s first neuromarketing agency.

In the book, the authors introduce NeuroMap, a scientific, yet simple model to develop better marketing and sales messages. Aside from marketing and sales, the strategy of persuasion introduced covers both business and personal success. Some of the main concepts include: the dominance of the Primal Brain over the Rational Brain in buying decisions; the only 6 stimuli that always trigger a response; scientific ways to optimize your content and message delivery.

Applying neuroscience to persuasion is an aspect of marketing and advertising every professional should understand. CEOs, VPs, and professionals can all benefit from The Persuasion Code as it touches on brain-based principles for consumer, media, sales, and advertising. Dr. Christophe Morin has been recognized for nearly ten years as a leading researcher and authors in the field of neuromarketing and media neuroscience. Dr. Morin is also a professor of Media Psychology for Fielding Graduate University. Patrick Renvoise is a foremost expert in complex sales.

In a previous book release, Neuromarketing: Understanding the Buy Buttons in Your Customer’s Brain, the authors started the field of neuromarketing. Dr. Christophe Morin and Patrick Renvoise, sold over 200,000 copies and the book was translated in 12 languages. Since 2002, this book has been the go-to text for customers looking to use revolutionary sales and marketing practices.

The company behind The Persuasion Code is SalesBrain, the world’s first neuromarketing agency. Founded in 2002, the company has helped over 600 clients close more business by researching, learning and improving thousands of sales presentations, ads, websites, brochures and more. SalesBrain has worked with over 120,000 executives (including 18,000 CEOs) around the world and delivered over 3000 private workshops to professionals, and marketers around the world.

The Persuasion Code is a culmination of 16 years of research and constant interactions with executives and professionals looking to stay on the cutting-edge of marketing and sales excellence. 

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CRM Radio is hosted by Paul Petersen of Goldmine CRM by Ivanti which is a program on the Funnel Radio Channel.  GoldMine is the sponsor of CRM Radio.