The 5 Elements of a Brilliant Sales Narrative

Keep resisting the urge to start talking about the details of your service.

Instead, present a high-level vision of the successful end state that your service will help the prospect achieve - e.g. ‘The Promised Land’.

The Promised Land should be highly desirable and also incredibly difficult for the prospect to achieve without outside help - your help.

Now, it’s finally time to introduce your product or service.

When you introduce your product or service, position its capabilities as a set of “magic gifts” that will help your prospect reach The Promised Land.

Make it clear that it will be very difficult - maybe even impossible - to reach The Promised Land without these “magic gifts” (your product or service).

Now it’s time to hit them with your best customer success story / case study / client testimonial.

The customer success story should highlight the many obstacles you helped them to overcome, and the stormy waters you helped them to navigate to successfully reach The Promised Land.

Keep it short and punchy.

Of course, successful sales rarely happen solely as the result of a great deck.

To stand an even greater chance of success, try and get the entire company aligned to, engaged with, and supportive of your new sales narrative.

Congratulations - you have just achieved sales nirvana.