In this short video, we provide a demonstration of the Sales Message Builder in SalesScripter.

The Sales Message Builder is a workflow of web pages and questions that interviews the user to extract the most important details about what the user sells. Each answer box in the Sales Message Builder links to dozens of different places in the Sales Playbook. As a result, when a user answers questions and enters their information into the Sales Message Builder, the documents in the Sales Playbook are filled out with their information and become tailored to their product and situation.

There are three main areas of the Sales Message Builder:

  • Products
  • Sales Messages
  • Building Blocks

Products
In the Sales Message Builder, the user will be asked to create a product profile. It is important to note that when the software always uses the term “product”, we are referring to whatever is being sold and that can include services. The software and sales methodology can be used for selling services and may actually fit better with services than selling products.

When creating a product profile, the software will ask you to add any features of the product. Features are the individual details about what is included in the product or what is accomplished with the service. For example, if the product being sold is a car, features that are included with that car are cruise control, anti-lock brakes, Bluetooth connection with a smartphone, etc. If you sold a service like accounting services, an example of a feature might be bookkeeping and year-end tax filing.

A mistake that users often make with listing features is that they insert benefits. Going back to the example of an accounting service, a user may enter a benefit of decreasing the taxes. This is more of a benefit that is provided by the accounting service than a feature and should be entered later in the process when the user creates a sales message for the product.

The product profile will also provide a place for the user to enter ways that the product or company differs from the competition. If the product being sold is cheaper, easier to use, lasts longer, etc., it is important to include those details and this is where you do that. You can also put any ways that the company is different. For example, if the company has won awards for customer service, has been in business for 30 years, or is a woman-owned business, those might be good things to include in the sales message and those can be entered as differentiation points.

Sales Messages
The second main area in the Sales Message Builder is Sales Messages. This is where the user can create sales messages that include most of the talk tracks and key details that should be communicated when selling one of the products.

When a user creates a sales message, they will be taken through the following steps:

  • Target Buyer
  • Value Points
  • Pain Points
  • Questions
  • Name Drop
  • Objections

Prewritten Sales Messages
We have gone through the sales message builder in SalesScripter and answered the questions for many commonly sold products and services. With that, the library is preloaded with scripts and emails ready to use for many salespeople.

Here is a video that explains what is available and how the preloaded sales messages work.