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Most people are always striving to better themselves in some way - whether it be in a big way, or a small way.  For proof, check the sales figures on the number of self-improvement books sold each year.  Now, this is not a pitch for you to jump in and start selling those kinds of books, but it is an indication of people's awareness that in order to better themselves, they have to continue improving their personal selling abilities (as "selling yourself" is a big topic covered in many books of that genre)!

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. This requires a kind of personal honesty that not everyone is capable of exercising right away without some pretty intense soul-searching and practice.

In addition to knowing yourself, you must continue learning about other people and society.  Just as with yourself, you must be caring, forgiving, and empathetic towards others.  In any sales effort, you must accept other people as they are, not as the people 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 or she would if he or she were calmly and collectedly asking someone out 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 salesperson; well, almost no such thing - let's just throw the idea out there that there could be a small handful of them somewhere! 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 (plural).  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, waiter to host, salesperson to sales manager, or from email 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.  More people than you may imagine 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 if  you decide you want to go for it full-throttle.  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, preferably 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 guidelines that will definitely improve your gross sales, and quite naturally, your gross income.  I like to call them the Strategic Sales Commandments.  Look them over; give some thought to each of them; and adapt those that you can to your own selling efforts.
 
                1.  If the product you're selling is something your prospect can hold in his or her hands,
                     get it into his or her hands as quickly as possible.  In other words, get the prospect
                     "into the act."  Let him or her feel it, weigh it, admire it.
 
                2.  Don't stand or sit alongside your prospect.  Instead, face him or her while you're
                     pointing out the important advantages of your product.  This will enable you to
                     watch his or her  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 an angle
                     that will allow your prospect to easily 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 or her about at a given time.
 
                3.  With prospects who won't talk with you:  When you can get no feedback on
                     your sales presentation, you must dramatize your presentation to get him or her
                     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.  They say 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/her 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 to.
                     Simply give your sales presentation, and instead of trying for a close, toss out a
                     challenge such as, "I don't know, Mr./Ms. 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 or her and waiting for him or her 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 - the
                     old "reverse psychology" trick, and it works great in this type of situation (most of the time).
 
                     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.  And, of course, silently give that person credit inside your
                     own mind as well - 100% of the world's populations is not going to be interested in
                     what you are selling 100% of the time, even if you are a rock star salesperson!
                     They didn't want it - they genuinely weren't interested - whatever, get over it, move
                     on to the next prospect.  You've got to know when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em;
                    and if you need to fold, fold quickly so you won't waste your time to play your next
                    hand in the next round!
 
                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 bank card.
 
                     After the introductory call on your prospect, you should be selling products and
                     collecting money.  Any call backs should be only for re-orders, or to sell him or her
                     related products from your line. In other words, you can waste an introductory
                     call on a prospect to qualify him or her, but you're going to be wasting money if you
                     continue calling on him or her to sell him or her 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 or she
                     doesn't understand, or what specifically about your product does he or she feel
                     needs more thought.  Let him or her explain, and that's when you go back into
                     your sales presentation and make everything crystal clear to him or her.  If he or she
                     still balks, then you can either tell him or her that you think he's/she's procrastinating, or that
                     overall, you don't think the product will really benefit him or her, or it's purchase be to
                     his/her advantage.  And then, again, if your prospect is still giving you the run around
                    back off - remember, push hard - push as hard as you can, but, for goodness sake,
                    don't make him or her bleed!
 
 
                     You must spend as much time as possible calling on new prospects.  Therefore,
                     your first call should be a selling call with on-going follow-up personalized communication
                     by e-mail, social media, telephone, or whatever medium works the best to engage with your
                     prospect the most to sign the prospect up for re-orders 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 your prospective buyer 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 e-mail, telephone,
                     social media, etc. (whatever medium works best for you, your products, and your
                    prospective buyers) with related, but more profitable products you have to offer.
 
 If you accept the statement made at the beginning of this discourse that there are no born salespeople (well, let's be fair and say "few"), you can readily absorb these "commandments."  Study them, as well as all the other information on this page.  When you realize your first successes, you will truly know that "salespeople are made - not born."
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