Why do you settle on selling only one product? Unlock your sales potential and maximize your sales. Why do you sell only one product? Sell more than one. As you think through that, (as you tafakari hayo), see what these 5 smart salespeople are doing different. Then expand your sales game. The informal seller’s approach:
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Examples of cross selling Have you witnessed or experienced any of these examples in cross selling that show it’s importance? While fueling, a petrol attendant invites you to buy a higher grade fuel; as you await the meal you’ve just ordered, the waiter asks you what drink you would like to have; in traffic, a
CEO’s are not Sales Managers and vice versa. Company profits are not sales commissions. A business is not a sales team and fraud has no place in either. Welcome to the Wells Fargo (Bank) scandal. When you run a business the way you would a sales team, the results cannot be good. Throw ethics out
The trick is to shorten your learning curve by making the duration to perfection a factor of frequency more than a factor of time. Pitch as many times as humanly possible, improving with each successive attempt based on progressive lessons learnt. An account winning pitch takes time to bake. As with every new skill, even
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Selling is giving a service. You want a plumber with some basic understanding of electrical work. We want elastic skills as employers but shun them as employees. Strange. Selling is giving a service and giving a service is selling. It is the perception that selling and service are mutually exclusive that is the bane of
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Information is no longer a single lane, from seller to buyer. It is now a dual carriage way and the buyer’s side has eight lanes (and growing) while the seller’s is still one. Make it a marriage not a fling. “Make a customer not a sale”. I stumbled upon this quote and found that the
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Selling is giving a service. And service is given by any one. The extra sale is merely a by-product of this; so is accelerating your profile to 3D status. Far too many sales are lost by front line staff. They are lost largely because of a poor attitude and sometimes lack of capacity. Consider these
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It is the consummate seller who is able to resist the urge to volunteer (unnecessary) details of what the product can do. A business to business sale many times requires the presentation to be done across different cadre before it is consummated. Few sellers do this. Many, for lack of trying; others for lack of
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