Archive for Category: Human Interaction

Don’t overthink it! You sell in your social interactions

Don’t overthink it. At the end of the day, selling is a basic human interaction. You are selling as you go about your social interactions online and offline. It is the imagination that it’s not, that magnifies a molehill into a mountain in your mind; it’s the unnecessary painstaking analysis that freezes you in a

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The face-to-face sales meeting still trumps. Use it

Insist on face-to-face sales meeting. At the meeting, dialogue, listen, take notes. Get to the nub of the issue. Then consensually agree on way forward. After all, even in a pandemic, we are still social creatures. This piece of advice should be Holy Grail for two sellers. The business to business (B2B) one for whom

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Sell at the exhibition stand like a matatu tout

The tragedy of the average corporate exhibition stand is that it is manned by a ‘supermarket cashier’. And its intended objectives and investment are lost…Your branch and stand are both your corporate outlets. However, potential visitors to your stand are rarely in ‘buy mode’. So how do you Sell at the exhibition stand? Read on

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Big brand name not automatic selling advantage

Selling a big brand name? Just as with glowing academic papers, that reputable name won’t work for you, if you don’t. Could you be wallowing in the miasma of your company’s renowned brand name? “Watakuja tu” you reckon. (Customers will always come). “We needn’t put in much effort in selling. After all, we are (insert

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Exercise subtle persuasion to nurture a long lasting buyer-seller relationship

It’s like the ego driven man who chest thumps himself to fellow men as to the plot of land he identified and bought, yet in truth, his wife is the one who gently and wisely nudged him in that direction. The power of subtle persuasion in selling is, unfortunately, underestimated. That you must be persistent

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Selling Taboos to Drop for Easy, Faster Climb

There’s nothing sweeter than the sound of one’s own name. Remembering the name after a long and dry spell in communication yields a warm, “Wow! You still remember my name?” There are several taboos to avoid in selling but start with these three and see the positive effect Remembering Names Progressive sellers cannot afford the

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You Will Attain Sales Success Faster By Being Genuine Than Pretensious

However eloquent you are in the Queen’s English, you must still show the buyer what your product or service can do for him The Sales Pitch column turns four today. This is the 193rd post. A four year old is unpretentious and eager to learn. Equally, the bare knuckles nature of sales leaves little to

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A few non-selling actions that sell

Acknowledge, stoop to conquer and engage, for juicy dividends Whether you are in direct selling or not, there are several non-selling actions you make, or don’t, that get, or lose, you the sale. These go beyond the seasonal and traditional marketing merchandise and birthday/anniversary gifts. Here are three such. Acknowledgement The most fundamental need for

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