How to Sell Ideas
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The document outlines ten practical tips for effectively selling ideas to clients, emphasizing the importance of engaging the audience and creating a sense of ownership. Key strategies include researching the audience, structuring the pitch, providing context, and maintaining a positive and surprising approach. The overall message is that well-presented ideas can significantly impact client buy-in and success.
How to Sell Ideas
- 1. How to sell ideas London, April 28, 10 | | 1
- 2. How to sell ideas City University HCID Open Day April 21, 2010
- 3. I hold the view that ideas are aimless until you make them happen. In the commercial context, the best ideas amount to nothing if you can't get your client to buy in to them.
- 5. 1. Work with the imagination of your audience • Let people feel smart and engaged • A client that feels some ownership of an idea is almost half the battle won
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- 10. 2. Seed an idea and get advocates • Many executives won’t get on board unless they see others going for it first
- 11. Electrolux
- 13. 3. Be prepared • Find out what you can about the people you’ll pitch to • Think about what questions your audience may ask and have some answers ready • Don’t take things personally
- 14. Client X
- 19. 4. Structure your pitch • Excitement can be developed by building up toward a big reveal • Themes that develop through a presentation really help keep an audience engaged
- 22. 5. Give an idea a context that your audience are already bought into • Link your ideas to business objectives and customer insights
- 23. Canon
- 26. 6. Do your research • Change will always be strongly resisted • Give your idea a foundation that your audience understands
- 27. Unilever
- 29. 7. Give people an easy way to get on board • Develop your idea of what ‘next steps’ need to happen • The ‘easiest’ route may not always be fastest • Getting in on the ground floor to develop a business case can be a great opportunity
- 30. Big high street bank
- 31. 8. Be surprising • Nothing deflates a big idea faster than the words “..but we know all this already”
- 32. Generation Green
- 34. 9. Be positive • Try to turn any negative issues on their head • ‘Opportunities’ sell innovative ideas better than ‘Issues’ • Memorable phrases are great hooks • If you get knocked back, learn from the experience and come back stronger
- 35. UBS
- 36. 10. Dramatise, and have fun… • Design how you communicate • Good imagery can make an idea come to life in the minds of the audience
- 37. Virgin Atlantic
- 38. The interview
- 39. 10 Practical tips 1. Work with the imagination 6. Do your research of your audience 7. Give people an easy way to 2. Seed an idea and get get on board advocates 8. Be surprising 3. Be prepared 9. Be positive 4. Structure your pitch 10. Dramatise, and have fun... 5. Give an idea a context that your audience are already bought into
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