The 6 Steps To Integrity Selling: How Emotional Intelligence and Sales Process Combine For Sales Success

The 6 Steps to Integrity Selling
How emotional intelligence and sales process combine for sales success
Many sales courses fail to live up to their promise because they concentrate on process and product rather than
the person. A confident, personable salesperson is the one who sells most. Who you are being in sales makes
all the difference in the world. The question answered by sales training should not only be how to ignite sales,
but rather how to ignite the salesperson.
In this video, you’ll discover the six steps to integrity selling®, and the power of emotional intelligence in the
selling process. Employing these steps with behavioral change based in emotional intelligence will guarantee
you ignite sales and accede targets.
To help the customer buy, don’t sell!

Today’s customers are more informed and better prepared than ever before. If they simply wanted to buy a
product, they could do so online. So, what is it that customers really want? They want a solution.
It is therefore paramount that a salesperson focuses on needs, developing an ongoing relationship that
resonates with the inner beliefs and values of the customer. It is this deep understanding of customer nee that
promotes customer confidence in the salesperson. Confidence in the integrity of the salesperson encourages
long-term business commitments. Long-term commitment is what truly ignites sales.
Introducing Sales Congruence

There are five dimensions that must be aligned to ignite the selling potential of individuals and their teams.
These are:
 View of selling
 Values
 Belief in product
 View of abilities
 Commitment to activities
Where gaps between these occur, inner conflicts arise. These directly impact sales performance. Integrity
selling® brings these five dimensions into congruence. The result is a sales team that is freed from inner
conflict. Energy and ambition are ignited, and stronger sales skills released. The key to this outcome is
developing the individual sales persons emotional competencies for greater self-awareness because : who you
are being makes all the difference in the world.
Introducing AIDInc – the customer-focused six steps of integrity selling®

The AIDInc sales model is one of the most powerful tools of integrity selling®. By employing this sales
structure rigorously, a salesperson will be using a tried-and-tested sales process which unleashes the unlimited
potential created by improving interpersonal emotional competencies. The AIDInc process naturally creates
focus on the customer, aiding the salesperson to gain trust, understand needs, and provide a solution.
AIDInc is an acronym for:
 Approach
 Interview
 Demonstrate
 Val-I-date
 Negotiate
 Close
1. Approach
This is the stage at which the salesperson gains trust and rapport with the customer. Make sure that you have
done your homework, and have knowledge on the client and their business. The customer will be consciously
or unconsciously sizing you up, so dress for success engage the customer in conversation that is focused on
getting to know them, this stage is about setting the environment for a conversation of mutual engagement.
Our business environments are filled with disruptions and pressures. As sales people we need to support the
client in breaking from the current pressures of the day to focus in on our conversation which is all about them
and solving their business challenges. We gain the right to the next step in the process by doing the Approach
well.
2. Interview
With heightened emotional intelligence, you will be able to be yourself and connect effectively with the
customer. Effective communication is the art of motivation and collaboration – you will be collaborating to
achieve a solution to the customer’s needs and motivating them to take action.
At this stage, you should seek to build on the initial rapport, and focus on the client and their business issues
and needs. This step in the Integrity Selling is process is by far the most important. In the interview step you
are discovering the needs, problems and concerns of your customer. This is the time to listen probe and ask
questions from curiosity to get at the heart of their challenges.
Take notes, demonstrate your sincerely interest in what you are learning about their situation. Show that you
are fully committed to their needs, finding a solution to their problems and dealing with any concerns.
3. Demonstrate
This is the point at which you demonstrate that you can provide a solution to the customer’s needs.
Demonstrate that you and your company have the knowledge and experience to provide a solution to their
stated need and handle any concerns. Use brochures, schematics, drawings, formal proposals and project
images to reiterate your ability. In fact, anything that demonstrates your capability to be the solution to the
customer’s needs.
4. Val-I-date
Confirm your experience and abilities. Validate your knowledge. Provide case studies and testimonials as
evidence that you have solved this challenge for others. Be sure to translate features into benefits. Take the
time to be sure the customer has validated that they like what you have presented as a solution to their needs.
If there are concerns go back and address them before moving to the next step.
5. Negotiate
The Negotiating step is about working out problems that keep people from buying something they want to buy.
When you’ve completed the pervious steps in the Integrity Selling process effectively then trust and rapport
are strong. On this foundation negotiation becomes a partnership to work through customer concerns. When
trust and rapport are weak almost any negotiation can become combative.
In the Negotiate Step you find out what concerns or objectives remain and you welcome them. You identify
and clarify specific objections, discuss solutions and ask their opinions for the best solution. Agree on a way
forward.
6. Close
You don’t sell in the close, you close after you’ve sold. In this step you ask trial-closing questions to get
opinions and responses. You listen and reinforce the responses, you restate benefits that outweigh cost. Close
the deal by asking for a positive decision. The close is easy when you’ve completed all the other IS steps
effectively. The customer will close themselves!
Guaranteeing Maximum Results
Key to igniting sales with the AIDInc process is emotional intelligence. Being self-aware and Other aware is
the foundation for emotional intelligence, and it is this that empowers the ability of salespeople to connect
personally and professionally with customers. It increases the ability to communicate effectively, collaborate
efficiently, and motivate ceaselessly. This is why a key aspect of our Integrity Selling® course is the work it
does to expand the beliefs of the salesperson about himself or herself. I’ll say it one last time – who you are
being in sales makes all the difference in the world.
Contact us today, and discover how we could help your sales team to manage themselves, their prospects, and
ignite sales.

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To help the customer buy, don’t sell!

Introducing Sales Congruence

Introducing AIDInc – the customer-focused six steps of integrity selling®

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