Once upon a time, pre selling your customer was only a very small part of the sales process, the flow was manufacturing followed by selling. Pushing products onto Customers usually worked and manufacturers had a better chance of selling because of the fact that Consumers did not have much choice. Things have changed now!
Consumers respond to relationship selling, react to value and not price, need information and are not swayed by super-promotional gimmicks. Today’s shopper is savvy, has many choices and wants value!
You need to stand head and shoulders above the competition and work harder than ever to get the sale.
Gain Customers Trust
One of the most primary requisites when pre selling to your customers is to ensure that they trust you and it takes time to engender trust. You must do all you can to ensure that you meet all promises you make.
Provide information, facilitate sales, and help them make their decisions. Do all you can to bring about the trust factor and that can bring you the first sale and repeat business for many sales to come.
Create Hype
One of the keys to a successful pre-sell is hype, also called Buzz Marketing by some of the experts within the industry. It involves creating a chain of word-of-mouth incidences and also to get into the limelight in some way or the other.
If your Online Business is based on a sound idea and has a good response from potential consumers, generating hype before your product launch can shoot your Online Business off to a good start.
Provide More Than You Promise
Often, Internet Marketers tend to over-promise and under-deliver, which then leads to lack of trust and rapid loss of interest and faith on the brand. One effective way to keep you from making this mistake is to make “reasonable promises” those promises you can keep and even aim to do just a little better than that promise.
Make reasonable promises, meet them and make your customers happy. Exceed them and you’ll delight your customers.
Create Value
Putting service and value before asking for money, giving them a guarantee, and selling before the service or product is even out is a great way to build a sustainable and steady business.
Creating a value concept before the product or service is out can make customers line up for you when you actually come out with the product, and create the perception that the customer is getting MORE than their money’s worth.
There are a lot of ways to accomplish pre-selling with Article Marketing, product reviews, and helpful tips to your customers and target customers.
Get to know your niche, get to know your competition and deliver on your promises always and your brand will have trust associated with it that takes care of part of the sales cycle on its own.


Good advice Sean
Things I find sadly lacking in some quarters is having great service, or any service at all as well as actually getting what I paid for.
I always tried to in my job to not over promise so that when it comes out a lot better people feel better about it.
Hi Sean,
I think selling to customers is primarily about building trusting relationships. I want to provide quality products and services at a fair price. I want the customers to know that I will deliver on what I promise. If they have any problems I will do my utmost to fix them.
I think if I can provide this level of customer service I believe the sales will take care of themselves. This may not be the fastest or the most fun way to generate sales, but it is reliable and dependable. As far as creating a buzz, you can probably already guess that this is not going to be something I’m good at.