Most people tremble when they hear the word "sales".
This explains why most businesses fail.
No matter what product or service or business you have, if you can't market it, you'll fail.
Salesmanship is not an easy skill to acquire.
To improve your salesmanship skill, there are a few qualities you must improve on.
Here are some secrets of super salesmanship to help you.
To excel in any selling situation, you must have confidence, and confidence comes, first and foremost, from knowledge.
You have to know and understand yourself and your goals. You have to recognize and accept your weaknesses as well as your special talents.
The key to understanding your customers is to first understand yourself.
If you don't know yourself, you'll not be able to know others and will not be able to sell anything to them.
It is a no brainer!
This requires a kind of personal honesty that not everyone is capable of exercising.
Therefore not everybody can be a super salesman or woman!
In addition to knowing yourself, you must continue learning about people.
People change all the time.
The more they change the more you must revise your knowledge about them.
Just as with yourself, you must be insightful, perspective and able to see not only the trees but also the forest.
In any sales effort, you must accept other people as they are, not as you would like for them to be.
One of the most common faults of sales people is impatience when the prospective customer is slow to understand or make a decision.
The successful salesperson handles these situations the same as he would if he were asking a girl for a date, or even applying for a new job.
Learning your product, making a clear presentation to qualified prospects, and closing more sales will take a lot less time once you know your own capabilities and failings, and understand and care about the prospects you are calling upon.
Our society is predicated upon selling, and all of us are selling something all the time.
We move up or stand still in direct relation to our sales efforts.
Everyone is included, whether we're attempting to be a friend to a co-worker, a neighbor, or selling multi-million dollar real estate projects.
Accepting these facts will enable you to understand that there is no such thing as a born salesman.
Indeed, in selling, we all begin at the same starting line, and we all have the same finish line as the goal - a successful sale.
Most assuredly, anyone can sell anything to anybody. As a qualification to this statement, let us say that some things are easier to sell than others, and some people work harder at selling than others.
But regardless of what you're selling, or even how you're attempting to sell it, the odds are in your favor.
If you make your presentation to enough people, you'll find a buyer.
The problem with most people seems to be in making contact - getting their sales presentation seen by, read by, or heard by enough people.
But this really shouldn't be a problem, as we'll explain later.
There is a problem of impatience, but this too can be harnessed to work in the salesperson's favor.
We have established that we're all salespeople in one way or another.
So whether we're attempting to move up from forklift driver to warehouse manager, waitress to hostess, salesman to sales manager or from mail order dealer to president of the largest sales organization in the world, it's vitally important that we continue learning.
Getting up out of bed in the morning; doing what has to be done in order to sell more units of your product; keeping records, updating your materials; planning the direction of further sales efforts; and all the while increasing your own knowledge ? all this very definitely requires a great deal of personal motivation, discipline, and energy.
But then the rewards can be beyond your wildest dreams, for make no mistake about it, the selling profession is the highest paid occupation in the world!
Selling is challenging. It demands the utmost of your creativity and innovative thinking.
The more success you want, and the more dedicated you are to achieving your goals, the more you'll sell.
Hundreds of people the world over become millionaires each month through selling.
Many of them were flat broke and unable to find a "regular" job when they began their selling careers. Yet they've done it, and you can do it too!
Remember, it's the surest way to all the wealth you could ever want.
You get paid according to your own efforts, skill, and knowledge of people. If you're ready to become rich, then think seriously about selling a product or service (prefer ably something exclusively yours) - something that you "pull out of your brain;" something that you write, manufacture or produce for the benefit of other people.
But failing this, the want ads are full of opportunities for ambitious sales people.
You can start there, study, learn from experience, and watch for the chance that will allow you to move ahead by leaps and bounds.
Here are some secrets of super salesmanship that will definitely improve your gross sales, and quite naturally, your gross income.
I like to call them the Super Salesmanship Secrets Of Success (3SOS).
Look them over; give some thought to each of them and adapt those that can improve your selling efforts.
1. If the product you're selling is something your prospect can hold in his hands, get it into his hands as quickly as possible.
In other words, get the prospect "into the act." Let him feel it, weigh it, admire it.
2. Don't stand or sit alongside your prospect. Instead, face him while you're pointing out the important advantages of your product.
This will enable you to watch his facial expressions and determine whether and when you should go for the close.
In handling sales literature, hold it by the top of the page, at the proper angle, so that your prospect can read it as you're highlighting the important points.
Regarding your sales literature, don't release your hold on it, because you want to control the specific parts you want the prospect to read.
In other words, you want the prospect to read or see only the parts of the sales material you're telling him about at a given time.
3. With prospects who won't talk with you: when you can get no feedback to your sales presentation, you must dramatize your presentation to get him involved.
Stop and ask questions such as, "Now, don't you agree that this product can help you or would be of benefit to you?"
After you've asked a question such as this, stop talking and wait for the prospect to answer.
It's a proven fact that following such a question, the one who talks first will lose, so don't say anything until after the prospect has given you some kind of answer. Wait him out!
4. Prospects who are themselves sales people and prospects who imagine they know a lot about selling sometimes present difficult selling obstacles, especially for the novice. But believe me, these prospects can be the easiest of all to sell.
Simply give your sales presentation, and instead of trying for a close, toss out a challenge such as, "I don't know, Mr. Prospect - after watching your reactions to what I've been showing and telling you about my product, I'm very doubtful as to how this product can truthfully be of benefit to you."
Then wait a few seconds, just looking at him and waiting for him to say something.
Then, start packing up your sales materials as if you are about to leave. In almost every instance, your "tough nut" will quickly ask you, Why?
These people are generally so filled with their own importance, that they just have to prove you wrong.
When they start on this tangent, they will sell themselves.
The more skeptical you are relative to their ability to make your product work to their benefit, the more they'll demand that you sell it to them.
If you find that this prospect will not rise to your challenge, then go ahead with the packing of your sales materials and leave quickly.
Some people are so convinced of their own importance that it is a poor use of your valuable time to attempt to convince them.
5. Remember that in selling, time is money! Therefore, you must allocate only so much time to each prospect.
The prospect who asks you to call back next week, or wants to ramble on about similar products, prices or previous experiences, is costing you money.
Learn to quickly get your prospect interested in, and wanting your product, and then systematically present your sales pitch through to the close, when he signs on the dotted line, and reaches for his checkbook.
After the introductory call on your prospect, you should be selling products and collecting money.
Any call backs should be only for reorders, or to sell him related products from your line.
In other words, you can waste an introductory call on a prospect to qualify him, but you're going to be wasting money if you continue calling on him to sell him the first unit of your product.
When faced with a reply such as, "Your product looks pretty good, but I'll have to give it some thought," you should quickly jump in and ask him what it is that he doesn't understand, or what specifically about your product does he feel he needs to give more thought.
Let him explain, and that's when you go back into your sales presentation and make everything crystal clear for him.
If he still balks, then you can either tell him that you think he's procrastinating, or that overall, you don't think the product will really benefit him, or it's purchase be to his advantage.
You must spend as much time as possible calling on new prospects.
Therefore, your first call should be a selling call with follow-up calls by mail or telephone (once every month or so in person) to sign him for reorders and other items from your product line.
6. Review your sales presentation, your sales materials, and your prospecting efforts.
Make sure you have a "door-opener" that arouses interest and "forces" a purchase the first time around.
This can be a $2 interest stimulator so that you can show him your full line, or a special marked-down price on an item that everybody wants; but the important thing is to get the prospect on your "buying customer" list, and then follow up via mail or telephone with related, but more profitable products you have to offer.
If you accept our statement that there are no born salesmen, you can readily absorb these "commandments."
Study them, as well as all the material in this report. When you realize your first successes, you will truly know that "salesman are made - not born."
May these sales secrets of super salesmanship help you to improve and sell more of your products and services.
Warmly,
I-key Benney, CEO
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