Many salespeople have yet to learn that it is far more important to start selling right than it is to begin calling on prospects right away. The salesperson who is prepared for his first meeting or call with the buyer has taken out the best policy of insurance on his own success at selling.
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Find out all that you can about your customers before you make that call. Demonstrating an understanding of their business will give them confidence in your ability to sell them the right solution. Get your sales …

Today I am sharing with you my Daily Sales Tip #28 titled: “Hit or miss does not work in selling.”

Hit or miss does not work in selling. Many sales are lost because salespeople assume they know what the customer wants. This does not mean you should not use your instincts and training well. But it does mean that your sales assumptions must be based in a finding of facts, not guesses.
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No American can afford to treat salesmanship as a small matter. Why? Because the United States started out on a salesmanship basis for this reason: because only thirteen states were gained by war and all the others were gained by purchase and bargaining.
On five great historic occasions Uncle Sam went out with his money in his hand and bought more real estate. In 1803 he bought Louisiana from Napoleon for $15,000,000. Thomas Jefferson drove the bargain and actually picked up fourteen new States at a price of two and a …

How many of us have dreamt of being able to brag about our achievements, openly and honestly, showing off our trophies for all the world to see without the risk of being sidelined for lewd behavior? Well, with selling you absolutely can! If you have it, you get to flaunt it and let people know that you’re as good as you are – it’s important for your reputation. Remember, you’re going to invest an enormous amount of time and effort in your reputation because that is the vehicle that will …

You’re a sales genius. They love you; they trust you; and some of them keep on coming back for more. However, you can very suddenly go from Hero to Zero if you don’t keep your sales figures up to scratch. As a sales genius, you’ll be working hard to have deals lined up for weeks in advance so that you’re not enslaved by what has been referred to as “the Curse of a Sales Job”.
Working month to month, just treading water in the hopes of staying afloat, does not make …

In sales you’ll always know where you stand. No longer do you have to torment yourself with the question of your performance. At the end of the day, your sales figures will be the yardstick that indicates how well you’ve done in selling. You’ll always know how your performance was for that day, for each and every customer. The proof is in the purchase of the product that you’re selling.
No-one can fake a purchase or lie to you about how great your pitch was. Customers aren’t concerned with stroking your …

The world’s oldest profession involves selling. One might even argue about which came first – the selling or the sex? In fact, selling and sex are so closely related that succeeding at either one of them can be euphoric, addictive, and good fun.
Some people might like to argue that selling is not better than sex. They believe it’s the other way round. In this post (and other following this one) I will give you many different reasons why selling IS better than sex.
For a start, it’s okay to make a …

Today I am honored to have a guest blogger on my blog, his name is Dave Kahle and he is one of the top sales trainers in the world. Here is his article.
Sales Master Best Practices:
Has a systematic set of criteria for classifying customers and prospects into ABC categories
“You’ve got to show it in order to sell it.”
Today’s selling environment is jammed with an unbelievable array of “things to do.” Left without any mechanism to take control, salespeople can easily default to a way of going about their jobs …

“When I first read about the wacky book title “Selling Is Better Than Sex”, I could not resist the temptation of arranging my copy. Alen Majer’s latest book is loaded with sales lessons, tips, tactics and golden nuggets of advice. The comparison of Selling with Sex, though, makes the book title weird, bizarre, far-out and one of its own kind, yet it contains extremely interesting and absorbing stuff on Selling. Alen has successfully taught the art and science of selling in a very humorous and hilarious manner.

The book starts with …

Social media is changing hundreds of industries and professions, and sales is no exception. To recognize those members of the sales industry who in their use of social media are bringing together important news, intelligence and theory, InsideView has announced the full list of the ‘InsideView 20.’
This list of sales industry leaders is composed of sales executives, writers, trainers, analysts and more, all of whom are making savvy use of many of the social media tools available today and helping usher in the renaissance they like to call ‘Sales 2.0.’
Guess …