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From this intimate one-on-one work with the Olympic athletes of the sales world,
Dr. Moine developed an in-depth understanding not just of the techniques but of the
mindset of sales champions. In this exclusive examination of sales scripting, Donald
will reveal to you the values, belief systems and mindsets that enable sales millionaires
to outsell everyone else in their industries. These mindsets can triple or quadruple the
effectiveness of a sales presentation. The powerful scripting and sales presentation
techniques you are going to learn about here have enabled many clients to book millions
to hundreds of millions of dollars in additional sales.
The way that we have structured this part of the encyclopedia is to first share with
you the logic, thinking and structure of the most persuasive sales scripts. In these
sections, you will actually learn how to create your own powerful, customized million
dollar sales presentations.
We will then share with you actual pages from script books that have catapulted
the sales of companies in a wide variety of industries. With the knowledge you gain in
the first sections, you will be able to take many of the scripts presented and turn them
into best-in-industry scripts for your company.
This first section is a totally rewritten and updated excerpt from the classic book
UNLIMITED SELLING POWER: HOW TO MASTER HYPNOTIC SELLING
TECHNIQUES, authored by Dr. Donald Moine and Dr. Ken Lloyd. Published more than
10 years ago by Prentice Hall and reprinted in numerous editions in the United States and
various foreign countries, it remains in the top 1% of all books on Amazon.com. This is
the first book ever to show how sales superstars skillfully use powerful forms of indirect
or conversational hypnosis to break sales records.
As you read this and gain a deeper understanding of million-dollar sales
presentations, you will see why Dr. Moine has become known as the business script
doctor for his work in helping companies massively improve their sales presentations.
Whenever a business or a professional wants to develop devastatingly effective sales
presentations, I refer them to Dr. Moine. In just a few moments, you will also learn that
some of the most powerful scripts of all are stories, metaphors and case studies. Like
myself, Donald teaches with stories and examples. I hope you gain as much as I have
from the incredible word magic and insights of Dr. Donald Moine, the Guru of Gain, the
Sales Script Doctor.
--Jay Abraham
trips to Hawaii and cash bonuses. Jack gave much of the credit to the Mastermind Sales
Script Book and the training that went along with it.
After his team broke numerous sales records, Jack was promoted to head of a
major division of ADP for the entire Western United States. It was my privilege and
honor to have organized and conducted this entire Mastermind Script Book project for
Jack Tortorice and ADP. Using the powerful mastermind sales presentations we
developed, we broke nearly every sales record within Jacks division of ADP. Below, in
this exclusive report for Abraham Publishing, I am revealing, for the first time ever, some
of the scripts that enabled Jack Tortorice and his sales team to shatter ADP sales records.
The ADP Script Book I wrote had 21 sections, covering every objection you will
ever hear in selling payroll services. The sections of the Script Book ranged from
Getting Through the Secretary to It Costs too Much to Set Up and Use to Business
is Slow to My CPA Does Our Payroll to We Dont Have Any Time to Look at It
and many, many more. The mastermind script book totally destroyed these objections.
In fact, after learning these powerful scripts, many of the salespeople brought up
the objections first! They then completely took the wind out of the sails of these
objections with the logic points provided by the mastermind scripts.
Dozens of companies provide payroll services. Many competitors of ADP want
to write your company payroll checks and figure tax withholding. How could ADP stand
out from this crowd? How do you stand out from the crowd? How can your company
become a multi-billion dollar company?
Of the 21 major objections ADP salespeople heard over and over again, one of the
most common was, We are concerned about confidentiality. They were told, We
dont want anyone inside our company to know how much another person is paid. And,
we dont want anyone outside our company to know that either.
How would you handle such an objection? Until we developed these scripts,
many ADP salespeople didnt know quite what to say. After studying their top
salespeople and reviewing our collection of the most powerful sales scripts from dozens
of industries, here is what we came up with:
Salespeople. This was the first doctoral dissertation ever written on the compelling
speech patterns used by the worlds top salespeople. You can still acquire a copy of this
best-selling dissertation from University Microfilms International in Ann Arbor,
Michigan.
If you wish to maximize profits from your business or professional practice, you
should ask yourself this question: How can I learn and master the sales strategies of the
superstars?
How would you like to have the most powerful and persuasive sales presentation
in your industry, available for immediate use by you and your sales people? How many
hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars in extra income could you earn? How much
would your sales improve if you had the most effective ways of handling any objection,
stall or resistance you encounter? How much less stressful would your life be if you had,
at your fingertips, the most persuasive words ever spoken by the top salespeople in your
company or in your industry?
You can enjoy this level of sales success. HOWEVER, it is not available in any
bookstore or on any website. It is available in a customized mastermind sales script book
which only you and your people can develop.
There are many parallels between Jay Abrahams life and my own. In the early
1980s, we were each establishing our reputations in business. Jay became renown as the
Marketing Genius and I became known as the Sales Doctor. While we didnt know one
another at the time, we were both traveling around the world promoting the concept of
Mastermind Groups.
To me, masterminding is working with the top performers in a field, studying the
best, figuring out exactly how they do what they do, and then building an explicit
model of their skills so that other people could acquire those skills. The final product of
the industry or company Mastermind Groups I assemble and work with is a Mastermind
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Sales Script Book. We then use these Mastermind Sales Script Books to break sales
records in company after company.
Compared with any other type of book, the Mastermind Sales Script Book looks
lean and mean. It means business. It is, as its name implies, a collection of the most
powerful and useful phrases ("scripts") a sales professional can use to counter any
objection and close the sale. If the script or presentation doesnt close the sale, it
advances you more quickly to the close, builds a deep level of trust and sets you up for
the next powerful piece of sales dialog. It is a refinement of what really works in a
particular sales context.
To be useful, all knowledge must be organized and it must be accessible. The
sales script book is an organized and useful set of the most powerful ways of handling the
exact objections, questions and stalls you get in your sales calls. It enables you to make
more sales calls with less effort and it helps you close more sales.
It is also important to know what the script book is not. It is not a collection of
theories about sales.
war stories of sales veterans (heres the way I did it, son). It is not a set of worn-out
overused "power-closing" techniques. It is not a set of tricky words with which you can
beat up customers. It is not a book of product information or product literature. It is not
a book on who your company is and what it does. A Mastermind Sales Script Book does
not have any fat or theory or background information.
The world of professional selling is being rapidly restructured in the 21st century.
Companies which previously spent large amounts of money on Internet ads, print, radio
and television advertising are waking up to the cold reality that most advertising does
NOT produce sales. Companies which previously purchased feel good motivational
training or pre-packaged 19 Steps to Closing a Sale generic training are finding that
they rarely get sales increase. Sales managers, entrepreneurs and corporate executives
who are brave enough to focus on the bottom line are realizing that many of the heavily
hyped methods for supposedly increasing sales simply do not work.
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But when he needs that specialized script to convert a prospect to a client, it is in his
script book. Here are some of the exact scripts Tom Gau uses to earn more than $3
million a year as a financial planner:
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If someone called me right now and wanted to buy XYZ stock, I could
not and would not sell it to them.
As a fiduciary, I would need to know their needs, interests, risk
tolerance, etc. before making any recommendation.
Remember, I ALWAYS HAVE YOUR BEST INTEREST IN MIND.
A stockbroker cannot say that.
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A stockbroker might try to help you rich quick and they might take
some risks in doing that.
In comparison, we concentrate on lowering your risk, lowering your
taxes, and helping you to get rich slowly but surely.
Wouldnt you really be more comfortable with that type of approach?
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If you came in here and told me, I want to buy individual stocks, trade
them frequently, sell short, buy pork bellies, etc., Id say, Go see a
stockbroker.
Thats what stockbrokers do.
What we do is very different.
Please let me explain
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I can help you save a lot of money on your taxes, reduce your mortgage
costs, save you money on insurance, help you fully fund your retirement
program, help you save for your childrens college education and
minimize your estate taxes.
Can your stockbroker do ALL that?
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Did you know that many stockbrokers get tip sheets every day for stocks
they are required to sell that day?
Well, WE ARE NOT UNDER THAT KIND OF PRESSURE HERE.
We take a more conservative, longer-term perspective to finding the
best, most appropriate investments for you.
Isnt that what you really want--rather than the hot stock of the day?
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Did you know that many stockbrokers pay way too much in taxes
because they dont know how to manage their own finances?
What does that tell you about their ability to help you with your finances and
your taxes?
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The stockbrokers who are truly interested in financial planning leave the
stock brokerage field and become full-time financial planners.
Until this stockbroker becomes a full-time financial planner, Id strongly
suggest you leave the stock-picking to him and the financial planning to
a Certified Financial Planner like me.
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What exactly did the stockbroker say he could do for you in the field of
financial planning?
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At the end of each section of his script book, Tom has a blank lined piece of paper
so that he can add great new responses when he thinks of them. By doing so, his script
book gets better and better over time. It is a living document.
I have seen the scripts and script books of dozens of top financial planners and
stockbrokers. Tom Gaus is by far the best. It is no accident that he earns more then $3
million a year as a financial advisor. Many of the financial planners and stock brokers
who have paid $300 each for a copy of Tom Gaus script book have told me it is one of
the best investments they have ever made.
Not all of the scripts above (or in Toms script book) are Toms. I added a number
of scripts that I have collected in my work with other top financial advisors around the
United States, Canada and Australia. That is what makes this a mastermind book. No
one person could have ever thought of all of these powerful responses.
Whether you are able to buy a mastermind sales script book (few industries or
professions have them available) or whether you write one yourself, I suggest that you
circle your favorite responses. In that way, you can instantly find them.
However, your preferences will change. You will eventually get tired of using
the same 4 or 5 or 6 responses. That is why you need a wide variety of powerful
responses in your mastermind script book. In addition, remember that different prospects
and clients will need to hear different responses. Your favorite response may not be the
favorite response of any given prospect. You need to say what will be most effective with
that individualeven if it is not your favorite response. Your mastermind script book
thus needs to have 15 to 20 different responses to be maximally effective with the full
range of prospects, clients and customers you will have.
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Why arent your salespeople selling more? Why arent YOU selling more? I
will place my bet that your product is pretty good and that your service is pretty good but
that your words (your sales presentation) is not doing the job!
The great thing about American business is that it corrects its mistakes. In some
foreign countries, businesses wallow in their mistakes for year after year. Not in
America. Here, only the strong survive. The sales script book is now being
rediscovered. And, vastly improved.
Using techniques from Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and
psycholinguistics, you can now create and perfect scripts and sales presentations that are
more powerful and focused than any of your existing sales presentations.
Organized sales script books have been known and used by some of America's
most successful and profitable corporations, such as IBM. However, sales script books
have largely remained a mystery to many other companies and even to entire industries. I
am out to change that.
Those companies that have invested the time and money to develop mastermind
script books have guarded them under lock and key to keep them out of the reach of their
competitors. How would you feel if your competitors got their hands on the very best
sales presentations of your most powerful salespeople? To protect against this
possibility, some of the corporations I have worked with have printed their script books
in blue ink on blue paper to make photocopying nearly impossible. You can still read the
text, but it does not photocopy. Jack Tortorice of ADP had his script books printed with
black ink on special dark red paper. When you try to photocopy it, the pages come out
nearly all black!
Some companies hand out script books in the morning and collect them in the
evening to lock them in vaults. Two financial institutions I have worked with, Union
Federal Savings and Loan, and First Federal Savings and Loan, have assigned special
numbers to each sales script book to track where the books are at all times.
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Are these security moves justified? You can decide. At stake is tens of millions
to hundreds of millions of dollars in sales and profits for your company. No one would
go to this trouble to guard ordinary training materials or company sales brochures. But,
sales script books are different. Mastermind Sales Scripts produce massive sales.
Why are sales script books so essential? Throughout my work with numerous
sales organizations, entrepreneurs and Fortune 500 executives in the USA and abroad, I
have learned that even the best salespeople can be inconsistent. I have observed that
even sales superstars have good days and bad days. On some days, even top people are
unable to remember their own best lines.
Script books help make salespeople consistently excellent. Day after day, week
after week. If you want consistent top sales performance, you need a written mastermind
sales script book. Even if you are tired or fatigued, if you have your very best lines at
your fingertips, you can make several additional sales calls and close additional sales.
You may doubt the power of sales script books. Shouldn't salespeople be able to
memorize all of their best lines? That is impossible. When you realize that sales
superstars themselves rely on script books to refresh their memories, you will become
convinced of the unrivaled power of this sales tool.
Famous sales speakers such as Brian Tracy, Zig Ziglar and Tommy Hopkins
recommend the use of powerful written sales scripts and they recommend you practice
delivering your very best, most convincing lines. However, as far as I know, these
famous speakers do not themselves write scripts and sales presentations for salespeople,
entrepreneurs or business owners. That is my specialization.
It is no mere coincidence that highly-successful sales professionals use script
books. The script books are, in fact, largely responsible for their success! If you are a
reasonably successful salesperson or professional, if I gave you the very best scripts and
sales presentations in your industry and coached you in how to deliver them, I guarantee
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you that your sales success would significantly increase. One of the main reasons you
are not selling more is that your scripts and sales presentations are not good
enough.
On those occasions when sales superstars misplace their script books, they are
invariably less successful. They are like pro football players trying to play without a
playbook. Just as in sales, winning in football takes talent, hard work, a great coach and
a powerful, proven set of plays. That is what a mastermind sales script book gives you.
The script book makes the job of selling much easier and less stressful. Tom
Olds, CPA, sells tax-favored investments to wealthy clients in Orange County,
California. Using his script book, he is able to make over 100 high-quality phone calls
per day. Yet, because his presentations sound so natural, no one knows he is using
written scripts.
Long after most of his competitors are exhausted and ready to calls it quits, Tom
is still fresh and has the energy to make an additional 20 or 30 calls. It can be late in the
afternoon, and Tom might be hit with any one of dozens of objections, stalls or
resistances from a potential client. Tom quickly turns to that section of his script book
and glances down at a variety of powerful ways of handling the objection. While his
competitors are racking their brains to come up with a response, Tom has the most
awesome lines in his industry at his fingertips. It is no accident that he is at the top of his
profession.
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For this reason, I coach salespeople in both acting and voice-change techniques.
While this training is a lot of fun, it has a quite serious purpose. Research has shown that
we trust people like ourselves. We trust people who have somewhat similar speech
patterns. Sales champions know this intuitively. They match their voice to the
customer's voice. They will speak slowly to someone who speaks slowly. They will
speed up their speech rate with a faster talker. Research shows top salespeople will
speak softly with people who speak softly. They speak more forcefully with people who
have strong voices. When you speak the way the other person speaks, the effect is
hypnotic. They trust you because they trust themselves-and you are talking the way
they talk.
These vocal techniques can add great power to your sales presentations. When I
coach salespeople on how to deliver compelling sales presentations, I always coach them
on how to pace the voice characteristics of their prospects, clients and customers. When
you do this properly, no prospect or customer knows scripts are involved. All they know
is that they like you, they trust you, you understand their needs, and they want the
solution you are providing.
These same voice-matching techniques can be used both in sales
presentations on the phone and in face-to-face selling. Script books are not just for
telephone sales. In fact, most of my clients use most of their scripts in face-to-face
selling or in seminar selling. Here is how they work in face-to-face sales.
Suppose you are a medical equipment salesperson. You are going to make your
next face-to-face sales call with a physician. From your first phone call, you know that
his major objections will be: price, your service contract and equipment reliability. You
drive out to see him and you park outside his office. Obviously, you cant bring your
mastermind sales script book in on the sales call. Here is what you do.
Before you go in to make your sales call, you look at the following sections of
you script book: "PRICE," "SERVICE CONTRACT," and "EQUIPMENT
RELIABILITY." There, at your fingertips, you find the most powerful presentations
you or any other salesperson in your industry has ever made on these subjects.
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You glance at these proven scripts to recharge your memory and quickly
stimulate your thinking. These powerful scripts and presentation points are now on the
tip of your tongue. You walk into the doctor's office totally relaxed and supremely selfconfident. When he brings up these objections, you handle them effortlessly. You make
the sale. And you have plenty of energy left to make several more sales calls.
My clients who do face-to-face selling and seminar selling find script books are
indispensable. They use, practice and perfect their scripts everyday. One client calls his
script book "the brains on the front seat of my car." He makes nearly $1 million a
year.
Whenever you go to a seminar and end up buying $1,000 or more in educational
products or in future seminars, realize that the seminar promoter or speaker used scripts
in making his or her presentation. In fact, I have worked as a coach and consultant to
many of the most successful seminar speakers and seminar promoters in the country,
including Peter Lowe, Dave del Dotto, Dante Perano, Charles Givens and Ted Thomas.
I wrote all the scripts for Peter Lowes small sales team. Although his sales team
numbers less than twenty people, they regularly sell from 5,000 to more than 15,000
seminar seats per month!
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on how to buy government tax liens. Jay Abraham earns more than $1 million a year
offering seminars on the most powerful marketing strategies in existence.
Many of my clients are financial planners, stockbrokers and estate planning
attorneys who attract clients through their seminars. I helped two of my financial planner
clients in Las Vegas develop a seminar that earned them more than $150,000 in
commission and nearly $10 million in new assets under management the first month they
offered it. This is a seminar to educate investors about equity-indexed annuities. The
seminar has been so successful that they are now offering it to other financial planners
and investment advisors at www.seminarsystems.com
If you are planning to offer a seminar, I would suggest you read Ultimate Selling
Power (Career Press, 2002). In this best-selling book, Dr. Ken Lloyd and I devote an
entire chapter to seminar selling. You can buy this book at many bookstores or at
amazon.com for about $15.
Once you have designed your seminar, your next task is to attract people to it.
You need to design persuasive advertisements and seminar invitations. If you want a
large attendance, you should hire one or more people to make phone calls to potential
seminar attendees. This is what Peter Lowe does.
When I worked with Peter Lowe in the mid-1990s, he had about 19 people
working the phones to help sell seats at his seminars. Peter hires famous speakers such
as Zig Ziglar, President George Bush and Barbara Bush, famous athletes and coaches and
even movie stars to speak at his programs. His goal is to get at least 4,000 people to
attend each seminar. Using powerful, customized scripts that I developed with Peter and
his team members, we were frequently able to get 10,000 people or even more to attend
some of his seminars. At our biggest event ever, held in Orlando, Florida, we got 23,000
people to attend! This event actually created traffic jams!
In trying to attract people to your seminars, one of the objections you will hear is,
I just went to a seminar. I dont need to go to another one. How would you handle
that objection? In working with Peter Lowe and his team members, I came up with more
than two dozen powerful responses to this objection. I then went through all the notes
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and tapes I had of other great seminar marketing masters with whom I have worked and
came up with another twenty very powerful responses to this objection.
Below, for the first time ever, we are revealing these responses that helped Peters
sales team sell tens of millions of dollars worth of seminar tickets. As you will see, some
of the responses are even designed to sell 5 or 10 or even more tickets at one time. Peter
Lowes salespeople would call large companies and sometimes we were able to sell 30 or
more seminar tickets to one company. They might be distributed to the sales team of that
company, to managers or other employees.
This script book was a $75,000 consulting project I did for Peter Lowe
International. Bear in mind that this is just one section of a very comprehensive
mastermind script book. Peter Lowes company went on to become the #1 seminar
company in America. As you will see from several references to Winnipeg, Peters
company also did seminars all across Canada. Here are some of the most powerful
responses ever developed to handle the objection, I just went to a seminar. I do not need
to go to another one.
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Did your entire staff go to that training or did just a portion attend?
Who went?
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Did the training you attended recently have components for personal
growth as well as business growth?
Our training offers many insights for personal growth.
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You wont have to spend several hundred dollars for travel and hotel
rooms.
Were coming right to your city!
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What separates the people who are merely good in their professions
from the ones who are great is that the great ones keep developing
themselves.
Heres your chance to keep developing yourself.
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Since youve been to a seminar recently you more than anyone else will
appreciate the value we offer.
People spend $1,000 on other seminars and get less.
Why not attend this incredible program--for only $______--with these
world-famous leaders and achievers?
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Thats like someone saying they went to the 11th grade and they dont
want to go any further.
Why stop here?
Why not learn and grow even more?
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Even if you or your company had the money to hire ____________, you
couldnt get him to speak for you.
He is no longer speaking to individual companies.
Attending this seminar is the only way youll ever be able to see
___________.
Why not take advantage of this opportunity?
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We have the greatest speakers in America and the lowest price of any
multi-speaker all-day seminar.
What more could you ask for?
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As you can see, we left several blanks at the end. Whenever someone thought of
a great new response, they could write it down before they forgot it. By doing so, the
Peter Lowe Mastermind Sales Script Book got better and better and even more powerful
each month.
Rememberwhether you sell face to face or over the phone or in seminars or to
committees, your sales results can increase dramatically if you improve the quality and
power of your sales scripts and sales presentations. You obviously can't read a script
book when you are directly in front of a customer. However, reviewing your mastermind
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sales script book before you see him or her is the best investment of five minute's time
you can ever make.
Who has ever felt that it is just too easy to make lots of money in sales? Very,
very few people. This insecurity leads many salespeople to glob on to a few lines that
seem to work and they those lines over and over again. This insecurity in salespeople
(and executives) leads to a loss of creativity.
A profound loss of creativity. And this is one of the major reasons why most
salespeople are so boring. They say the same things over and over again. Give me a
break!
Some salespeople become superstitious about their sales presentations. They act
like robots who are programmed to say the same things, and the same lines, again and
again. After all, repeating a few old lines is easier than thinking up new lines. But this is
not sales scripting!
And--it doesnt break sales records or help you take over market share.
The sales script book encourages creativity and spontaneity because instead of
having just two or three ways of handling an objection or question, you will have 15 or
20 ways of destroying that objection. If you want a soft, friendly approach, it is at your
fingertips. If you want a stronger approach, it is there. You will find it without having to
wonder, What can I say now? Because you invested five minutes reviewing your
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Mastermind Sales Script Book, the most powerful sales presentation lines in the industry
are on the tip of your tongue.
If you want to ask the best questions in your industry, they are in your
Mastermind sales Script Book. Along with more than 100 other proven approaches and
sales scripts. ALL totally customized for YOU.
With all these approaches and sales styles to select from, salespeople don't get
bored and they don't burn out. YOU will not burn out. You will just sell more and more,
with less effort. You will find sales fascinating and rewarding instead of boring and
stressful. Why?
When you get into the language that really influences human behavior, you will
realize that there is always a new or creative way of creating or combining powerful
sales responses to significantly increase your sales. If you do not believe this, you are a
hopeless pessimist or you simply do not understand how human beings are persuaded.
WAKE UP! Improving sales is easy if you have the most powerful words of the
top sales producers in your industry. You can use one powerful script here, combine it
with another awesome sales script there, and weave in with yet another, more beautiful
sales script over here. This is a lot of fun and it can make you a lot of money. Listen to
the masters. Listen to Jay Abraham, to Tony Robbins to Steven Covey, to Mark Victor
Hanson to see how it is done.
Listen also to Jack Welsh (the former CEO of General Electric) and study the
speeches of Ronald Reagan. I have. It is no accident that Reagan changed the history of
the world. Study the words of the most persuasive people in the world. Dont focus on
what they say, but instead focus on the structure of HOW they say it. When you
understand HOW to structure a message for maximum impact, your powers of persuasion
increase many times over.
Napoleon said, We rule men with words. I have updated Napoleons
statement for the 21st Century. What I believe is that, We rule men, women, children
and OURSELVES with words.
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your mindset and your mindset determines your future. Upgrade your internal dialog and
you will be in control of your future.
How creative are you in sales? How creative are your salespeople? How flexible
are you in your use of language? Some of the lines in your mastermind sales script book
need to be funny or a little surprising. Why? Because that is exactly what some
prospects need to hear if you are to turn them into customers and clients. Some
prospects can withstand tremendous pressure, but if you get them to smile or laugh,
it will break them wide open. You need scripts to accomplish this and to sell to
EVERY type of prospect you encounter.
When you think of a great new approach to selling or come up with something
wonderfully effective in your sales presentation, you can ADD it to your mastermind
sales script book. When used with the appropriate voice-change and voice-matching
techniques, your mastermind sales script book will be the greatest tool you will ever
possess for increasing sales creativity and innovationand for increasing sales. The
bottom line is that powerful sales presentations mean more profits for you and your
company.
Think of your script book as a combination to a safe that contains millions,
tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars. Yet, instead of a numeric
combination, you have a linguistic combination. An effective sales script is the right
combination of words that time after time gets people to buy your products or services.
Think of the all-important role a script plays in making a successful motion
picture. Even the best actors in the world cannot rescue a film which has a weak script.
You and your salespeople are like actors. You can have great products or services, but
without the right sales presentationthe right words properly deliveredyou will not be
able to rescue your sales.
I rescue sales for my clientsand you can too. Even big companies need help
reviving their sales. In working with Fortune 500 companies, I have sometimes been
presented with a scene resembling the Titanic sinking. The CEO and sales managers
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previously thought, We are too big and strong to go down. When they call me in, their
company has hit a business iceberg and is sinking rapidly.
I get their salespeople on lifeboats by massively improving their sales
presentations. Then we determine their goals and desired destinations. Once I know
their desired destinations, I off-load them from lifeboat scripts to Boeing 747 sales
millionaire scripts and we fly to their destination in style and comfort. We accomplish all
of this with powerful scripts and million-dollar sales presentations.
Sometimes in my seminars and consulting work, people ask, Will my prospects
and customers know I am using scripts? No. If you deliver them properly, they will all
be totally invisible. All they will know is that they trust you, they like you, that you are a
great listener, and that you have a product, service or solution they want to buy. It is all
invisible. When a highly-skilled professional actor is reading from a teleprompter, you
never know he or she is reading. You are totally caught up in the drama. In exactly the
same way, no prospect or customer will ever have any idea that you are using a script.
All they will know is that they trust you and want to do business with you.
The sales script book is a business art form. Like all artistic disciplines, it takes
in-born skill, training and practice to master writing effective sales scripts. The masters
of business scripts (whether writing advertising copy, direct mail or face-to-face sales
presentations) are much in demand and are well-rewarded for their expertise.
Why should you go to the trouble of researching, writing and putting together a
mastermind sales script book? If you do it well, I guarantee you that your return on
investment will be greater than what you could receive from any training program. Why?
Because you will then have the very best, most powerful and effective scripts and sales
presentations of the top producers in your industry.
words that have proven their ability to close millions to hundreds of millions of dollars
worth of sales.
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Some
corporations experience a 1,000% return on investment for every one dollar they expend
developing a top quality script book for their salespeople.
I know financial planners who have paid $300 for a copy of Tom Gaus
Mastermind Financial Planners Script Book and who have gone on to add more than
$20 million in new assets under management in less than one year from the scripts they
learned. In December of 2002, Tom Gau added more than $20 million in one month in
new assets under management. If they are at all skilled, financial planners using Toms
exact words should be able to do in one year what he does in one month. But lets be
conservative and cut that in half.
If the average financial planner added $10 million in new assets under
management from the scripts learned (a very reasonable and even modest assumption),
The Financial Planners Script Book has been responsible for the acquisition of more
than $10 billion in new assets under management for the elite 1,000 financial advisors
who have a copy of this unique book. I do not know of any other book that can reasonably
claim to be responsible for the acquisition of $10 billion in new assets under
management for financial planners and stockbrokers. This is the unique power of a
mastermind script book and establishes the unmatched return on investment it offers.
The return on investment offered by a great mastermind sales script book far
outdistances real estate investments, the stock market, annuities, CDs or any other kind of
investment. Who would ever want to invest in a risky stock when you can invest in
scripts that you make you and your sales team rich? There are few business investments
with as substantial a return on investment as the mastermind sales script book.
While it takes time and training to become a master at writing powerful sales
scripts and million dollar sales presentations, with the proper guidance, almost anyone
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can develop a basic sales script book. Even a basic sales script book can substantially
increase your sales effectiveness and your profits.
A good sales script book does not have to be long to be effective. I have
helped some of my clients develop scripts that are only a few pages long that have made
them several million dollars. Other clients in the banking industry have script books that
are over 125 pages long. Some of them have used their mastermind sales script books to
bring in several hundred million dollars in new business. The script book only needs to
be long enough to get the job done. Remember, your book will contain no sales theory,
no motivational hype, and no general company background information. It will only
contain powerful sentences and mesmerizing sales presentations ready for immediate use.
If your book is going to be more than twenty pages long (and most are), it should
be divided into sections. The sections should be separated by dividers with index tabs
sticking out. Normally, each major objection is thoroughly handled in its own separate
section. You and your salespeople will have one dozen or more ways of effectively
handling any possible objection, stall or resistance that any prospect or customer could
bring up. The name of each section of the book should be written on the tabs so that any
desired section can be instantly located.
So that you can develop an in-depth knowledge of how script books are
developed, I have reproduced below the exact sections of a script book used by a major
savings and loan in Michigan. This script book was developed for the purpose of selling
this companys stock to the public.
I have written scripts and sales presentations to help companies raise tens of
millions of dollars to either fund their growth or go public. The president and several vice
presidents of this savings and loan, including David Hamilton, the Marketing Director,
worked with me in developing this mastermind script book. The sections in their book
are:
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I Want Liquidity.
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It is Too Risky.
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No matter what objection or stall a potential investor brought up, we had a dozen
or more proven ways of dealing with it. Some of the sales scripts were soft, friendly and
supportive, because that is what some people need to hear to make a purchase decision.
Some were stronger and more direct, because some customers prefer a more direct
approach. Some were highly logical. Others were more emotional. We had scripts and
sales presentations that appealed to every type of person. Plus, we had scripts to fit the
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personality styles (and sales styles) of every person at the savings and loan who was
involved in selling its stock. The book contained scripts everyone could use. The
salespeople (including top executives) were so well prepared, there was no objection they
feared. They could handle any objection with great skill.
You will notice, though, that this mastermind script book contained more than
just ways of handling objections and stalls. The third section showed a number of
effective ways of making the very first phone call to a potential stock purchaser. In fact,
a number of companies today are primarily using sales scripting break-throughs not to
deal with objections, but to make the MOST of the very first sales call.
They script out and rehearse the very best ways of opening and then making each
sales call. This type of scripting has worked out extremely well for Patterson Capital
Corporation which now has over $4 billion under management in its pension and fixed
income investments.
Below, we have reproduced the section of the script book to handle the objection,
My Money is All Tied Up. This is the first time ever that we have released these
scripts. What would you say if you heard this objection? Would you just give up?
Would you think there is nothing you could do or say? Here are some responses we
developed that proved highly effective in dealing with this objection.
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THAT IS UNFORTUNATE.
THIS OFFERING IS GOING TO BE OVERSUBSCRIBED.
I REALLY WANTED YOU TO HAVE A CHANCE TO GET IN.
IF YOU DO FIND SOME MONEY, PLEASE CALL ME AS SOON AS
POSSIBLE.
I WILL DO EVERYTHING I CAN TO HELP YOU GET IN, BUT TO
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS, YOU WILL HAVE TO MOVE FAST.
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Book. When we have helped other people and businesses raise money, we have used
different scripts. For example, the scripts used to gather funds for a new high tech
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business are very different than these. Currently, we are helping an entrepreneur raise
$20 million for the first ever heavyweight boxing match in Beijing, China. Those scripts
are very different, as are the scripts used by real estate professionals to raise funds to
purchase buildings. However, whenever you want to raise money, you MUST have an
outstanding script. No matter how good your business idea or your deal is, it will not sell
itself. You need the right words to attract the money necessary to fund or grow your
business.
What kind of results did the script book deliver for First Federal Savings
and Loan? In one month, using its own employees (not professional stockbrokers) the
savings and loan sold over 1,760,000 shares of stock to the public and brought in nearly
$14 million dollars for growth and acquisitions! Many of these new salespeople had
never sold anything before in their lives. All were trained with the mastermind sales
script book and in certain powerful sales presentation techniques I have developed. They
brought in $14 million in a short 30 days. This was money that the bank used to grow.
Marketing director W. David Hamilton wrote me a letter saying, "We actually
exceeded our estimates of community stock sales, saving a good deal in commissions
which would otherwise be paid to underwriters in the national offering." Their
mastermind script book made these sales possible. The stock, by the way, did very well,
and investors earned profits of more than 50% in less than a year.
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