Jul 30
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First - being before all others. Fast - moving or able to move quickly. Foremost - first in rank, order, or place. Wouldn’t you like to be first, fast, and considered foremost in your business. Obviously, the correct answer is yes. Here are nine tips, hints, and practical ideas to get you on your way. These sales tips work.
1. First - All potential customers have needs. All potential customers have problems. All potential customers are never 100% completely satisfied with their current supplier. A professional salesperson recognizes these simple facts and uses prepared questions to uncover the hidden needs, problems, and dissatisfactions that every potential customer has. Once these have been uncovered, always try to have your potential customer quantify them for you in dollars. Every quantifiable problem is begging for a solution. That’s where your products and services come in. Read the rest of this entry »
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Jul 30
It happens all the time, you hear someone over the telephone and you make a generalization about the person you are speaking with. It may not be fair and it is akin to judging a book by its cover, but it’s true nevertheless.
Within 60 seconds, people will make assumptions about one’s education, background, ability and personality based on their voice alone.
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Jul 30
Are you tired of excuses? Looking for a persuasion technique to get people to take immediate action? Are prospects saying things to you like: “I’ll think it over and get back to you?” “I need to talk it over with my wife.” “Call me next week and we’ll set up an appointment.” Then create a sense of urgency and get your clients to want what you have now!
The first step in getting people to take immediate action is for them to perceive your product or service as being in demand or in limited supply. People want what is “hot” right now! Psychologists have proven, people find more value in things they have a difficult time obtaining. If you’re told you can’t have something, you want it even more. Read the rest of this entry »
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Jul 30
Are you searching for new and innovative ways of sales lead generation? Are you lacking in sources of good quality leads? Are you tired and bored using the same methods for generating sales leads?
If you answered No to these questions you’re either satisfied with the income you’re earning – or you’re not interested in earning a 6-figure income in sales. Please stop reading this article. Read the rest of this entry »
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Jul 30
Abstract: People buy for their reasons, not yours. This article covers the key elements that prospects want to hear you talk about.
Always, but especially during lean times, effective sales professionals know the importance of communicating value.
Budgets – if they ever were discretionary – are tighter. Business customers are being asked to do more with less. Decisions are increasingly less on WHERE to spend the money and more on WHY we need to spend the money. Read the rest of this entry »
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Jul 29
First, recognize that motivation is an inside job. The word motivate means to impel, inspire, hope, stimulate, incite, propel, spur, goad, move, induce, prompt, instigate, fire, provoke, actuate, cause, egg on, drive, excite, and to trigger. Don’t wait for someone to motivate you, here are 17 ways you can motivate yourself. Read the rest of this entry »
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Jul 29
My wife and I watched the movie Ray when it came out on DVD. In the movie Jaime Foxx plays the
legendary singer Ray Charles. I was amazed at how Jaime had captured the essence of Ray Charles. Many times throughout the movie I wondered if it was Jaime Foxx or Ray Charles I was seeing on my TV.
When I did research on Jaime Foxx’s preparation for the movie I understood why he had captured Ray Charles so perfectly. In preparation for Ray, the movie, he adapted many of Ray Charles’ physical characteristics and immersed himself in Soul, Jazz and Blues recordings to set the mood; attended classes at the Braille Institute; and spent weeks during rehearsal and production walking around with his eyes
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Jul 29
Assumptions can kill a sale. In my sales training workshops, I frequently discuss the importance of not making assumptions about a person before, during, or after the sales process. Participants frequently nod and tell me that they NEVER make assumptions. One person (Doug Maquire, www.MaquireMarketing.com) sent me this story of a situation that occurred in a department store he worked in many years ago.
“I was the ‘young kid’ who had signed on to take the 9 month Management Training course for a department store chain. Sales people were generally assigned specific areas to cover within the store but being a ‘management trainee’ I had to learn all departments.”
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Jul 29
Many of us in sales are taught to believe that the most important job of the salesperson is to “find the need” of our prospects. If we can uncover “needs” then our job is easy; we just need to show our prospect how our product or service fills that need. Right?
Well, the problem with that approach is that it only addresses part of the pie. Think about it. What do you do when YOU need something? Let’s say you need to buy a new computer; do you sit around and wait, hoping that a computer salesperson is going to call you? NO, of course not; you go out and you fulfill your need.
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Jul 29
Two topics that have attracted a lot of interest ever since I brought the Keys To Power online more than a year ago are hypnotism and covert persuasion techniques. The Keys To Power system itself uses hypnosis for personal conditioning, but doesn’t really get into using hypnosis to influence others.
With the Keys To Power, we generally influence the outcome of various situations (including the behavior of others) by directing Power to create the experiences we want. However, this doesn’t stop us from looking into other systems that may make our lives easier, and being able to persuade other people to our way of thinking definitely makes life easier. Read the rest of this entry »
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