Friday, April 28, 2006

How To Sell Successfully

I’m going to reveal how you can sell successfully
in your life.

I’m not going to go into WHY you need to be a
good salesperson NO MATTER who or what
your job is.

Ok … wait. I think I need to explain why, otherwise you
might not find the value in the tips I’m about to reveal.

In nutshell, you need to ‘sell’ everyday to get a
‘yes’ to whatever your request in life is.


It could be a sales job you are involved in and you
need to sell in order to make a living.


Or, you are a mother that needs to ‘sell’ to your
kids the idea of staying away from drugs. If you
don’t sell well enough, some of the bad boys in
the neighborhood are going to ‘sell’ to your kids the
idea that taking drugs is a cool thing to do.


Here’s another example:

Do you think presidents are salespeople?
If they are not, they better start ‘selling’ to people
to believe and trust them to run a country!


Selling is about persuasion and influencing people.
There are thousands of books related to improving
your selling skills. Go and pick one up if you want to
learn more because it’s impossible for me to spell-out
everything about salesmanship here.


I don’t care what strategies and tactics you can pick
up in a ‘How To Sell’ book.

You can have all the strategies in the world, and yet
you cannot be a super salesperson if you don’t have
the attitude and mindset to sell successfully.

Here’s how to use your attitude and mindset to
sell successfully if you are selling to make a living:

1. You must have belief in your product/service.

Can you recommend your friend to visit Bali Resort
for a vacation if you have never been there before?
Of course not! Not even if you are paid commission
for recommending it.

You must believe that the product or service that you
are selling will add value to your prospective customers
if they buy. They must gain benefits from it many times
over their investment into your product. If you have this
mindset, you’ll be able to sell successfully because all you
have in your mind is to make sure that they bought it
because they’ll regret it if they don’t buy your
product/service.


2. You must feel proud to sell your product/service

Whether you are selling a one million dollar insurance
policy or $200.00 carpet, you must feel proud to have the
‘rigts’ or authority to sell it. This means, you are not
‘just another salesperson’. Feel special to have this privilege
of salesmanship for the product. If you can have this
mindset, you’ll be excited to sell every day.

3. Never take ‘No’ personally.

When you try to sell something to someone, and he/she
did not want to buy from you, get on with your life!

He/she did not reject YOU, but just rejected the offer
that you want to sell. So, don’t take it personally. It’s
only a process of selling and it’s NORMAL to get a
‘No’ occasionally. NO ONE in this world can get a
‘Yes’ all the time. Sales experts know that when they
get a ‘No’, it’s time for them to learn more on how to
improve their sales.


The choice is yours on whether to use the power of your
attitude and mindset to improve your sales. If you
cannot have these three elements, you should
seriously consider the product or service you are
selling and whether it’s right for you to continue selling it.





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