{"id":494,"date":"2016-05-25T19:18:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T00:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissawhitakerintl.com\/blog\/?p=494"},"modified":"2016-05-26T09:41:29","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T14:41:29","slug":"24-responses-to-the-dreaded-sales-objection-it-costs-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissawhitakerintl.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/25\/24-responses-to-the-dreaded-sales-objection-it-costs-too-much\/","title":{"rendered":"24 Responses to the Dreaded Sales Objection &#8220;It Costs Too Much&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melissawhitakerintl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/sales-objection-too-expensive.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melissawhitakerintl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/sales-objection-too-expensive.jpg\" alt=\"Stack of coins\" width=\"761\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.melissawhitakerintl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/sales-objection-too-expensive.jpg 761w, https:\/\/www.melissawhitakerintl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/sales-objection-too-expensive-300x124.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.melissawhitakerintl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/sales-objection-too-expensive-500x207.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 761px) 100vw, 761px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever heard from\u00a0a prospect that your price is too high?<\/p>\n<p>Did you just hear it yesterday?\u00a0 Last week?\u00a0 Multiple times a week?<\/p>\n<p>As I work with companies all across the globe, this objection seems to be consistent.\u00a0 You do realize that buyers go through their own training, and are taught to say that to see if you are willing to drop your drawers, right?\u00a0 The inexperienced sales professional easily falls for that trick.\u00a0 The more savvy sales professional will seek to understand what the prospect is exactly looking for &#8211; as well as proactively handling this concern by asking key questions that highlight the value, and reason for the higher price (well, that is my hope, that you are doing that).<\/p>\n<p>If you feel like you struggle with this in your every day consulting\/selling, then I recommend reading this article I recently came across on HubSpot:\u00a0<em> 24 Responses to the Dreaded Sales Objection &#8220;It Costs Too Much.&#8221;\u00a0 <\/em>Click &#8220;Continue Reading&#8221; and select &#8220;Read Article&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.hubspot.com\/sales\/objection-neutralizing-responses-to-it-costs-too-much#sm.0001go23oa4l6dtiq321l7e30llr7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-504 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melissawhitakerintl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Read-Article.png\" alt=\"Read Article\" width=\"161\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can also take a look at attending one of our upcoming Sales Training Classes: <strong>MWI Elite Sales Academy:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melissawhitakerintl.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/17\/melissa-whitaker-international-mwi-2016-training-schedule\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-505 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melissawhitakerintl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/MWI-Training-Schedule.png\" alt=\"MWI Training Schedule\" width=\"270\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Where we cover the following topics to help you catapult your success:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maximizing Your Minutes<\/li>\n<li>Psychology of Buyers<\/li>\n<li>Finding Ideal Clients<\/li>\n<li>Discovery &#8211; Effective Appointments<\/li>\n<li>Strategy &#8211; Competition<\/li>\n<li>Recommendations &#8211; Proposals<\/li>\n<li>Partnerships &#8211; Closing<\/li>\n<li>Seeking to Understand &#8211; Proactively Handling Objections<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qr199.infusionsoft.com\/app\/orderForms\/MWI-Elite-Sales-Academy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-376 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melissawhitakerintl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Register-Button-2.png\" alt=\"Register Button 2\" width=\"160\" height=\"47\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For any additional questions, please feel free to contact Alyssa Hoppensteadt, Director of Marketing &amp; Events for MWI at 847.533.2593.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever heard from\u00a0a prospect that your price is too high? Did you just hear it yesterday?\u00a0 Last week?\u00a0 Multiple times a week? As I work with companies all across the globe, this objection seems to be consistent.\u00a0 You &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.melissawhitakerintl.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/25\/24-responses-to-the-dreaded-sales-objection-it-costs-too-much\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,155,54],"tags":[158,159,157,60,26,102],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mwi-news","category-sales-insight-tips","category-training-events","tag-handling-objections","tag-hubspot","tag-increase-profit","tag-increase-sales","tag-prospecting","tag-sales-excellence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissawhitakerintl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissawhitakerintl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissawhitakerintl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissawhitakerintl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissawhitakerintl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissawhitakerintl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissawhitakerintl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissawhitakerintl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissawhitakerintl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissawhitakerintl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}