Sales Tip: Assume your customers know nothing

In the selling world of a mobile jobber, your customers are young, old, and everywhere in between. Some are highly educated, some are barely educated, and all are educated in the school of hard knocks. If your customer is young you may automatically assume they are technically adept, and if they are older you may assume they don’t know the difference between a megabyte and a TPMS. You may be correct in some cases, but the issue is you don’t know what they do or do not know. This leads to misunderstanding, miscommunication, misrepresentation, and most often a missed sale.

Your best bet to improve your success rate in selling technical products is to assume your prospect knows nothing, understands less, and needs to be spoon-fed your product information. I am not implying in any way that vehicle technicians are as dumb as a lug wrench; the exact opposite is true. But when selling a technical product, you will do better starting off slowly and clearly explaining every feature, advantage, and benefit as you go through your demonstration. As you do your trial closes, you will begin to get an idea of how much your prospect understands and just how technically advanced they are or are not.