Selling is NOT Order Taking........

Many people have not undertaken formal training in Sales and are struggling in this most specialised and unforgiving of environments. You now need to earn your corn and be good at what you do. Yes, be a Sales Professional! Selling has changed, the way people buy and what your core job is are now different to even 2 years ago.

Test yourself by answering these 3 Questions:

1. Have you had on-going formal Sales Training?


2. Can you describe the Stages of the Sales Process?


3. What's the most important stand-out trait of the most successful salespeople?
   

If you can't answer these 3 Q's convincingly then you do need to read on......

1. If you have not been formally trained and unless you're a 'natural' the likelihood is you're passing up on sales and annoying Customers.


2. If you're not familiar with the process how can you manage it? Let me come back to that.


3. The most important trait is the ability to listen and distil information from prospects/clients. How else will you uncover their Needs??
   

Customers and Sales People run different but parallel processes. The Customer is not interested in yours, so.....you'd better get interested in theirs!. Simple clue....We were given 2 ears and 1 mouth at birth. The smart money's on using them in that ratio!

Sales is about solving Customer problems by meeting their needs. This is vastly different to selling things to people they don't want. Those days are long gone. Repeat Business and Loyal Clients are worth their weight in gold. There are many processes and methodologies, they're all essentially trying to do 1 thing...Motivate the buyer to buy.

Step 1: Awareness, of you, your business, product, a Need and a reason to listen

Step 2: Interest, use fact, reason, emotion and enthusiasm to get people wanting to know more

Step 3: Desire, the person is motivated to want to do something about what they now know

Step 4. Action, a firm course of action leading to an order or closing a sale is put in place

The process is known as 'funnelling'. Moving from general needs to specific needs. Become a student to your craft. If you see things from the Customer point of view, you always win more than you lose especially in the long run. These are the basics, they just get you an entry ticket.

Research reveals approximately 80% of Sales people don't know the basics. On the flip side, it wouldn't take a lot to be good! The good news it most of this is ATTITUDE based and entirely trainable. What are your Sales Challenges??