This
website has a training module dedicated to Principle
Based Selling. We'll touch on a few points now. You
can explore this training when you are ready. You begin
by knowing who your customers are. Be creative. Accentuate
the positive, energetically. Sell the best parts of
your program. Emphasize your accomplishments. Clip the
newspaper article and show it. Break down the costs
to show what each donation will buy, ranging in steps
($5, $9, $15, $21 ... $1050). Ask for a specific realistic
amount, based on your research, then appeal to the donor's
broader vision.
Actively
involve everyone. Accept all volunteers. Show them how
to use their Recommendation privilege as a member to
undertake special projects for their church, their concerns
and their needs. Create a job for everyone. Be creative.
Multiply every member's influence by all their friends,
family, acquaintences and business contacts. Each member
is worth more than seven new contacts. Build you base.
Active members will give more than nonvolunteers.
Decide
to have fun and plan the fun. Make many new friends.
Celebrate the victories. Find ways to generate an overwhelming
feeling of goodwill. Enable everyone to feel like they
are winners in a winning organization. Arrange things
so donors and askers enjoy the experience and want to
do it again. Your good manners make each transaction
go smoothly.
Make
the most of every opp[ortunity. Be bright, alert, prepared
and on time. Control your time. Start and end meetings
on time. Respect busy schedules. Do your homework to
be ready for a short notice meeting. Know your facts
and figures. Practice asking for money and telling the
Chimorel story. Ask people what their goals are. Then
ask them to become a member;, starting the process of
achieving their goals.