Selling Quotes - Page 4

Salespeople need to “Earn the right” to become suppliers more than they ever did before.

Think upon the numbers I have been sharing with you. Of your competitors, five out of ten will do little more than take their customer's money immorally. A further three out of ten will leave them dissatisfied.

We all need salespeople who help people with the same enthusiasm shown by a small child describing the best Christmas present EVER

For some reason salesmen spend most of their time asking questions they already know the answers to. They rarely ask to discover anything new.

Your life is connected to other key support structures that you must never neglect, including family, fans, supporters, affiliations, professional associations, religious membership and others. Your membership to such groupings must add value to others whilst you equally get the benefit they are supposed to provide their members.

Tactical use of the media can be equated to power behind your skill or special ability. It is in the power of the media to help market your brand. You just need to look at Hollywood, European football, Bollywood, Nollywood, Global fashion & modeling, showbiz and even humanitarian efforts, to appreciate that the making and destroying of stars, initiatives and legends is to a greater extent influenced by the role played by the media.

We each sell alittle piece of happiness. You are elevating someone's spirit in some way, and to do that you have to understand the source of their angst and then you have to frame your product as a solution.

A Rainmaker creates value for the benefit of all through commitment.

Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses

It is naught it is naught saith the buyer. But when he is gone his way then he boasteth.

Earn the Right - Ensure you put this chunk of Sales Tetris in place first and all the other pieces just take their own positions naturally.

Rainmakers create growth through commitment.

A $3 Cup of Coffee is Worth a Book.

Well, at the risk of sounding a bit harsh…I think we can safely say that your recent successes could have just as easily been achieved by a mute monkey in a tiny business suit, holding up a written explanation of whatever it was the monkey was attempting to sell

The commitment gap is the massive distance between “yes” and “maybe

Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early.

What costs nothing is worth nothing.

Trust me. If you do not decide where you are heading, and refuse to take the appropriate action, you will end up being shaped into what others would have you become. Then any change will not be made for your benefit but for theirs.

Sometime in the future, when business slumps and there appears to be no solution in sight, you will hear others moaning about and blaming the things that are completely out of their control, wasting hour after hour on elements, which cannot be changed. Meanwhile, you, my boy, you will be focusing your efforts on the only thing that matters. The response which ensures you reach your destination.

I now know that success can not choose me. It is waiting on a path that I must walk. In truth, it waits there for everyone.Many do not know where the path begins. Some search for a shortcut to the end. But the majority of the world does not even realise there is a path there at all.I have been shown the start of that path and I am ready.

I will design my reputation and my resolve shall be absolute. I shall not give in when I know I can help.

This is how you must be. You must become as evangelical about your promised outcome as he is about his. You must believe that you, and you alone, have the solution to your prospects problems. Even if they do not recognise those problems themselves.

Most people haven’t set themselves any course with regards to their life. They have no idea whether or not they are being blown in any useful direction whatsoever. They are just at the whim of wherever the winds of life take them.

The secret to your future is hidden in your daily routine. You have to be self—disciplined to spend your time wisely.

How we feel about those we give our business to is of vital importance.

Let your customers and prospects recommend you to each other and let you competition wish they were you. That is our mission.

I can’t and won’t promise you magic sales fairy dust or the Jedi Mind Trick for salespeople – they simply don’t exist.

You must have realised by now that when one really cares, really tries to help, the other party recognises the fact and, therefore, easily sees the logic in working together for the greater good, for the mutual benefit of both.

Do billboard salesmen record their sales on charts? If so, who's at the top of the billboard charts for billboard sales?

If the African stars do not rise, are not known, remain obscure, their stories are not told – who and where is the African story teller? Your challenge if you are in the media is to continually ask if you are doing enough, using the appropriate strategies and at the right platforms. Let’s create and promote international and global stars with the talent and skills in our people, no one will do it for us.

I’ll record what I’ve learnt on the subject of what I sell. What it actually is means little to anyone other than me, but what it does and how it helps, means everything to those who require it.

Mark my words. Perception is reality and how someone perceives you is their reality.

We must design how we wish to be perceived, and then we must work even harder to continuously recreate and re-evaluate that perception.

No longer will I measure myself against competitors, who don’t even know that a race is being run. From now on, I will measure myself against the man in front of me. I will measure myself against a new personal best, achieving my next ambitious goal.

To sell something familiar, make it surprising. To sell something surprising, make it familiar.

I now know that success can not choose me. It is waiting on a path that I must walk. In truth, it waits there for everyone. Many do not know where the path begins. Some search for a shortcut to the end. But the majority of the world does not even realise there is a path there at all.

I need a first-class reputation

Fascinatingly resilient the tenacity of a child. Not yet conditioned by society to give up when instructed to do so.

Ready? No one is ever ready, my boy. But some do what they plan to do and some never will. The difference between the two is that the first group understand that they need to start somewhere, so they do so. Straight away

People will buy anything that's one to a customer.

Everybody sells something to somebody every day, whether it’s a product, a service or just a case of making sure that they get their own way.

Truth is not for sale. The man who sells truths that could help and guide humanity will never have peace of mind. Share truths freely, and you will always be revealed more.

Becoming well known (at least among your prospects & connections) is the most valuable element in the connection process.

Marketing without sales is dead.

You look green, immature. A young boy playing at business, dressing up in the manner in which he believes an actual grown-up would. Your viewpoint of business attire is one of wide-eyed wonder from the nursery door.

As soon as I can find the courage to put my plans to action, I will turn from being a “maybe man” into someone whose future success lies completely in his own hands.

A crucial factor when achieving great success in the real estate industry, or any industry for that matter, is teamwork. Unity is a place of power.

You’ve got to be driven to become successful.

I was so sure that I knew what they needed and what I wanted to sell them that I never stopped long enough to find out what it was they wanted to buy.

Remember: when you walk into a DIY store to buy a drill, you don’t want the drill. Your end goal is to make a hole and, in order to achieve this, you have to buy the drill.

That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever

The starting point to freedom is to begin questioning the cultural narrative you have been sold.

Salespeople who think that it’s all about price aren’t required: If it can be sold on the internet at the lowest price, you can take the huge cost of a sales team out of the equation.

If you sound like a contestant from The Apprentice or if the customer believes that they are being sold AT, you have already failed.

Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

If your doctor told you that you needed immediate surgery could you perform it yourself?

I fake fake to have a fake life. Does that make me a real horse? Buy now for $777, wooden saddle sold separately. Real horseshoes not included. Imaginary ones – neither.

I will not let those, who cannot recognise how I can be of service, dissuade me from showing them how I can help.

And that was when it really came home to me what I was about to do. I was going to rob a bank, committing the additional crime of arson in the process, and if I got caught I'd go to prison.Well, I thought, go on selling second-hand jalopies for another forty years and maybe somebody'll give you a testimonial and a forty-dollar watch.

I want to be the most unsold, and the most unsought-after author, after I stop selling my fake name anagrams on the internet.