How to Sell Anything by Tony Robbins *rare video

The Nugget

  • Effective persuasion involves establishing rapport and identifying the buyer's needs. Two key actions: create rapport by mirroring and understanding their needs, then anchor these needs to your product.

Make it stick

  • 📌 Rapport first, product second: Ensure people feel "me too" instead of "so what".
  • 🧠 Mirror and match: Match their body language, tone, and breathing to build connection.
  • 👏 Identify needs: Ask questions to uncover what they truly want; tailor your pitch to these desires.
  • 💬 Assume the sale: Create a sense of urgency and assume the sale once you’ve satisfied their needs.

Key insights

Establishing Rapport

  • Matching and Mirroring: Use body language, tone, and breathing patterns that match the other person’s to ensure they feel understood and connected.
  • Building a Connection: People need to feel a connection for effective persuasion, making them more likely to say "me too" rather than "so what".

Identifying the Needs

  • Ask the Right Questions: Understand what is truly important to them. Questions like, "If you could change anything in your life right now, what would it be?" are crucial.
  • Find Their Pain Points: Listen to what bothers them or what they wish to improve, and use this information to tailor your pitch.

Anchoring and Sales Techniques

  • Anchor Emotional States: Use positive experiences and emotions to create a bridge to your product. Relate how your product or service can recreate these positive feelings.
  • Assume the Sale: Guide them towards a decision by assuming they will buy. This involves a confident pitch where you outline the steps for them to take.

Attack and Confess Strategy

  • Pre-empt Objections: Address common objections (time and money) upfront by empathizing and offering logical reasons to overcome these hurdles.
  • Use Personal Stories: Share personal experiences where overcoming similar objections led to positive outcomes.

Closing the Deal

  • Logical and Emotional Balance: Combine logic (price, value, practical information) with emotions (future state, satisfaction) to close the deal.
  • Commitment and Congruency: Continuously gauge their commitment throughout the conversation and maintain congruency in enthusiasm and belief in the product.

Continuous Commitment

  • Momentum of Agreement: Keep the prospective client in a state of agreement, continually securing smaller ‘yeses’ to build towards the final ‘yes’ for the sale.
  • Personal Congruency: Your confidence in what you are selling should radiate and reflect in every aspect of your pitch.

Key quotes

  • "You want people here to say 'me too' not 'so what'."
  • "If you know that your congruency is that you don’t accept the word 'no', no just means that you haven’t gotten me in state yet."
  • "The key to sales is putting them in a state where they’ve bought before and then while they’re in that state, anchor it."
  • "People will tell you stuff they won’t tell anybody else when you have rapport."
  • "You’ve got to attack the principal, not the person, and sometimes confess that you’ve faced the same issue."
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