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sales pitch is the reasoning you provide your prospect for why they require your product or service.
It serves to introduce you, your company, your offer, and how it provides a solution to the problems your prospect encounters on a daily basis. The end goal is to end in a sale, but when you're just starting the outreach process, the goal can also be to simply set an introductory meeting.
They've received a negative reputation in the past few years, but sales pitches are still key for any budding SDR to nail if they want to get anywhere with prospects. Anything from a
cold call script to
an outbound email or
social media message can be a sales pitch.
And if you want to see success with these strategies, you need to nail that sales pitch.
It's alright to adapt it according to the
sales channel you're using. If you keep constantly optimizing your approach and adapting it accordingly, for example to certain times of year or holidays, or according to the
customer profile, you are far more likely to see results.
Sales pitches should always be as relevant to the prospect, simple, straightforward, and short as possible if you want to see success. But we'll get to that later.
For now, let's take a look at some successful sales pitch examples to get you started.