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Winning Back A Lost Account

Posted February 18, 2018

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You’re handed a list of accounts that once worked with your company but left for various reasons in the last few years.

Your mission is to re-establish communication and ultimately win back the business but;

When you make that initial call, you’re told

“We worked with your company before and that’s a mistake we don’t want to repeat!”

How would you respond to that?

You want them to hear you out, and give you a chance, but their statement sounds rather final, no?

Well for starters, (and forgive me for going all “Sales 101″ on you”) you should expect to hear that and have a premeditated response.

My suggestion would be to first try and find out what went wrong and then ask the following question;

What would you do if you were on the leadership team and you kept hearing feedback like that?

A typical response to that question might be;

Well I’d make some changes

That’s when you say;

And that’s exactly what we did and I was hoping for an opportunity to share those changes  with you.

Does it work 100% of the time?

Hell no but;

It helps you find out what went wrong.

Puts it out there that changes have been made and;

Hopefully piques their curiosity enough to want to learn about the changes that were made.

I asked this question in our Sales Playbook group on Facebook and received lots of great answers from your peers.

Click HERE to have a look or;

Come join us this Thursday (February 22nd) when we take a deeper dive into this and 30 tactics, 5 email tactics and a communication plan to help you grow your accounts.

When you finish the webinar you will know;

  • How To Get The Inside Track On New Opportunities.
  • How To Expand To Other Divisions, Locations Etc.
  • 12 Ways To Sell Change, Reduce Doubt and Skepticism.
  • A Meeting Format That Opens Your Client (and all the stakeholders) Up To New Ideas.
  • A 3 Step Questioning Technique That Helps Safeguard Your Accounts, Generate MORE Business, Testimonials and Referrals.
  • How To Get Access To Other Stakeholders Without Offending Your Contact.
  • How To Add Value Via Ideas, Surprises and Resources.
  • How To Create A “Keep In Touch” Plan Without Defaulting To “Calling To Check In”.
  • 5 Email Templates That Create Value and More Opportunities With Your Clients.
  • How To Reanimate A Dormant Account
  • How To Win Back A Lost Account

When?

February 22nd at 11:30 am EST and if you can’t make it I’ll send you the webinar replay.

What Do You Get?

(1) 90 Minute Webinar

Worksheets

5 Email Templates That Create Value and More Opportunities With Clients

Webinar Replay (In case you can’t make it or you’d like to go back for seconds)

How Much?

$99

Please click HERE to secure your spot!

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