3 insights for effective communication with your target clients

Are you often at a loss as to how and what to communicate during a call so as to convert the clients you want to work with? Read on for 3 insights from my real-world experience talking to prospects!

Lately, I've been having some calls with a few interesting prospective clients who are either SaaS or digital #marketing SMEs.

Today, I'd like to share 3 INSIGHTS FOR EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION WITH YOUR TARGET CLIENTS from my experience with B2B prospects. Here we go!

BE READY TO LISTEN. NO, REALLY—BE ALL EARS.

The best way to hint that you are, have and can deliver what your client needs right now is by understanding what they need exactly and providing them with an answer in the form of a solution that truly addresses their current issues.

Now, a key part of understanding what your prospect needs will require you to actively listen to them first.

If you are too excited or anxious to monopolise the conversation, chances are your prospect won’t get the best impression.

Be ready to listen and take down notes as your prospect verbalises their pain points, anxieties, and desires.

Focus especially on words and phrases like “challenges,” “frustrations,” “issue,” “The problem we're experiencing right now is...,” “Our current/former provider did this, while we wanted that instead...,” etc.

DARE TO ASK QUESTIONS

From my experience talking with Procurement and Business Development managers, many B2B clients can identify the kind of freelance service provider they need, but that’s about it. Only few know in advance what information, materials, etc. they need to supply their freelance partners in order to help such freelancers help their teams and organisation in turn.

This means you are the one who'll need to be a step or two ahead of your buyer persona. In practice, being ahead of your buyer persona means daring to ask the right questions and make some relevant requests.

For example, here are some prompts you could use in whatever order you prefer:

• “Why do you believe you need an [freelance role]?”
• “Have you ever worked with [X service provider type] before? What was your experience like?”
• “As this is your first time working with a [freelance role], there are a few things I'd like to share as a recommendation so I can better cater for your needs. Is that OK with you?”
• “You said you are looking to improve X. Do you have any preferences as to how and when you'd like this to be done?”
• “Would you be comfortable sharing X information on a confidential basis so I can solve Y problem for you?”

BE STRATEGIC, BE BOLD

Even if your prospect may know what they need now in order to solve an existing problem for their organisation, a successful freelance business owner is always on the lookout for more issues, gaps, problems they or their team of collaborators could offer to solve for their clients.

If you, like me, prefer to have your prospects see you as a potentially long-lasting partner for them, instead of as a one-off stopgap for the current holes in their business, you need to start thinking strategically, i.e., beyond the present scenario.

What are some other problems your prospect is experiencing without taking notice of right now?

Say you are a freelance web development service provider. Maybe you are talking about problems with the landing page of your prospect's website, but what about the rest of the site? Are thee any other issues you could be solving for them to rock it with their web page entire instead of just with their landing page?

Tell them about it in the form of a neat proposal or a live chat via Zoom, Meet or Teams. Don't give them the solution just yet, focus on the problems your prospect is not seeing, and how it is affecting their business.

Communicate your solution not by talking about the solution per se, but by means of the results and benefits your prospect could get from buying the solution from you.

Remember: If you can see beyond the sea of issues your prospect is experiencing today, you will be able to show them an array of solutions for problems they themselves may not have spotted yet. I've personally landed most of my current gigs thanks to that vision.

Show a prospect the added value of your service offering through key insights drawn from your strategic thinking skills and marketing analysis of their business, and chances are they’ll be quite willing to invest in your solutions.

I hope this article has given you some food for thought and ideas to boost your marketing and conversation efforts with your prospects. It's certainly helped me jot down my own specific roadmap for my next call with a prospect.

READY TO TAKE ACTION?

Let me know in the comments below if you’ve tried these tactics or what other tips you’d recommend to attract B2B prospects.

ABOUT ME

I am Delfina and writing is the substance that runs through my veins. Languages and Creativity are my superpowers, and I always strive to use them for the greater good. 😊

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