{"id":1509,"date":"2011-12-21T06:15:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T12:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/blog\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2011-12-21T06:19:33","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T12:19:33","slug":"too-much-information-part-2-of-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=1509","title":{"rendered":"Too Much Information part 2 of 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning Team &#8211; Too often a newer business owner will mistakenly think that &#8220;if I just tell them more about the science, the facts of the industry, the stats and more facts &#8211; then my prospect will see the light and make a purchase.  The old adage &#8220;Facts Tell &#8211; Stories Sell &#8221; is an old adage for a reason.<\/p>\n<p>The most important part of your business presentation is your story. Fill your  stories with <em><strong>emotion and personal revelations <\/strong><\/em>so you actually connect with your prospect and make an emotional impact.  Your story is what the prospect will remember most.  So be able to tell your story in less than 2 minutes.  Make it timely, appropriate to the situation and make certain that you link the prospect back to you, your product, and\/or your service. <\/p>\n<p><strong>The fewer words, the better. <\/strong> It&#8217;s never what you say, it&#8217;s what they remember.  It boils down to <em>inspiration<\/em> and <em>relevance<\/em> for the listener.  Too many facts, too many anecdotes or just plain overly wordy, and they can&#8217;t find the nuggets to make a decision with &#8211; so they leave your invite or presentation with &#8220;have to think about it&#8221;.  To best serve your audience, write, edit and rewrite  until you get your storys&#8217; most important points down to the fewest words possible.  Facts tell, stories Sell.<\/p>\n<p>In summary; <strong>Speak from your heart <\/strong>while drawing from your experiences. Remember, <em>it&#8217;s never what you say, it&#8217;s what they remember<\/em>. Be concise. Be precise. Be memorable. Be yourSelf.<\/p>\n<p>Live With Intention,<br \/>\nDr Bill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning Team &#8211; Too often a newer business owner will mistakenly think that &#8220;if I just tell them more about the science, the facts of the industry, the stats and more facts &#8211; then my prospect will see the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=1509\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[29,119,32,154,37,27,152,117,118,43,30,125,42,28,36,126,153,31],"class_list":["post-1509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-coaching","category-personal-development","tag-author","tag-bill-toth","tag-business-coach","tag-create-your-fate","tag-createyourfate","tag-dr-bill-toth","tag-dr-billtoth1","tag-drbill-toth","tag-drbilltoth","tag-entrepreneur","tag-father","tag-julie-toth","tag-leadership-development","tag-morning-moments","tag-neurolinguistics","tag-nlp","tag-postaday2011","tag-speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}