Just send me some information Sales Objection

“I’m an Inside Sales person making cold calls selling B2B services. I often hear “Just send me some information” and I’m having a hard time overcoming this objection. How should I respond?”

This is a common objection for a lot of inside sales reps.

When I first got into sales, I used to hear this objection all the time, and it was VERY frustrating. But I learned that the key to solving this objection is NOT having a snappy response – but rather to eliminate it from happening to begin with.

Just send me some information

The Root of the Problem

Your current sales process (what you say, when you say it, why you say it, etc) is causing this sales objection to happen.
There are three (3) primary spots during the sales call where this objection is usually brought up by the prospect.

• After your Opener / Introduction
• During your “qualifying” phase
• After your presentation and you go for a close

Here’s how to eliminate the “Just send me some information” response from happening in each of those areas.

The Opener Rejection

So you call your prospect, do your introduction, give a little spiel, and when you come up for air, you hear “Just send me some information”.

What went wrong: Your OVS (Opening Value Statement) should be designed to Pique Interest and get the prospect wanting to hear what you have to say.

Instead, you did your opener – “Hi, this is (your name) with (your company name)” – and did a little data dump of what you do but your message had very little WHAT’S IN IT FOR THEM sound bites and therefore, they responded with the “Just send me some information”.

You don’t need a rebuttal but a better Opening Value Statement.

The Qualify Attempt Rejection

So you’re asking your qualifying questions, and they interrupt you with “I have another call to make – can you just send me some information?”

The problem: You are asking self-serving qualifying questions.

The solution: The qualifying phase should be a well-thought-out series of sales questions that hook together like a chain. Each question should link itself to the next.

These questions should be in a logical, sequential order that makes sense to you and the prospect and have a natural conversational tone and feel, rather than an inquisition.

The Closing Rejection

So you finish up your presentation and go for a close only to hear, “Just send me some information”.

There are a lot of reasons why this can happen, and I would need an actual recording of the sales call to pinpoint (and fix) why you got this objection at this time; however, here are some prime areas to look at:

• You aren’t speaking with the right person
• You failed to establish what I call PROBLEM RECOGNITION
• There wasn’t an agreement of wanting a solution
• Never Identified what their ideal solution looks like
• You assumed they liked your solution
• You didn’t properly qualify them on the price

These are some of the main reasons why you are most likely hearing the “Just send me some information” objection at the close of your sale.

Here’s the good news… By understanding that this is NOT an objection you should be hearing – (some people think that this objection in sales is normal – it’s not), you can identify what areas in your sales process require a little work or adjustments.

You can replace common sales objections with sales conversations by simply making a few tweaks to the sales questions you ask.

– Michael Pedone

Michael Pedone is a straight-commissioned salesperson with 25+ years of experience selling by phone. He is the CEO/FOUNDER of SalesBuzz.com – an online sales training company that shows inside sales teams how to eliminate call reluctance and close more sales.