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Modern Selling: How to Ask a Customer About Their Budget

If you feel 100% positive about your relationship with a customer and comfortable with the conversation, then directly ask them: “What is your budget for this project?”

For the other 90% of the time, remember Customers do not think they need salespeople anymore, so if you offend them with a direct question, they will simply get online and find someone else. 

So, how do you ask about the budget? Indirectly with a series of three questions I share in the article below. (If you don’t get the answer after these three questions, no one else will either).

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Five Core Beliefs of Modern-Day Selling

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Customers and prospects don’t believe they need salespeople anymore.

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The primary goal of prospecting is to become known as a subject matter expert.

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Purchasing decisions are made by multiple people who may not know the salesperson.

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Customers and prospects are distracted more than ever, rarely focused on salespeople.

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Salespeople must make their customers successful. Satisfaction and friendships are not enough to maintain the business.

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