Sales Concepts for Beginners

2. WHAT YOU CAN LEARN TODAY What Is Selling? Personal Selling Today A New Definition of Personal Selling The Golden Rule of Personal Selling Everybody Sells! What Salespeople Are Paid to Do Why Choose a Sales Career? Is a Sales Career Right for You?

3. How Do You View Salespeople? Some people have a negative view of salespeople. What is your view of salespeople? How many of you have a viewpoint that is Positive? Negative? No opinion? How many of you are interested in a sales career?

4. What is Selling? Selling is just one of many marketing components Personal selling includes Personal communication of information Persuasion Helping others Goods Services Ideas

5. Think of Your Grandmother Would you treat her in a selfish manner? Would you sell her something just to make a sale?

6. The Golden Rule of Personal Selling The Golden Rule is all about trying to keep somebody else warm, even if it means that we get cold in the process

7. Salesperson Differences Traditional Salesperson Professional Salesperson Golden Rule Salesperson Guided by self-interests Takes care of customers Others interests most important

8. Exhibit 1.3

9. Self & Customer Service Progress

10. Everybody Sells! Each of us develops communication techniques for trying to get our way in life You are involved in selling when you want someone to do something You use persuasion skills to persuade someone to act

11. What Salespeople are Paid to Do Salespeople are paid to sell – that is their job Performance goals are set for: Themselves – In order to serve others and earn a living and keep their job Their employers – So the companies will survive Their customers – To fulfill needs and help organizations grow

12. How Do You Sell Someone and Remain Friends? Salespeople need to close sales and at the same time maintain a great relationship with their customers What does this require?

13. Major Reasons For Choosing A Sales Career

14. Rewards Non-financial Intrinsic reward of knowing you’ve skillfully delivered a sales presentation Quick path to managing large amounts of responsibility Quick path to managing others Financial Higher average salary than that of other workers at the same level within the organization Based upon performance, not tenure

15. Is a Sales Career Right for You? What are your past accomplishments? What are your goals? Do you want to have the responsibilities of a sales job? Do you mind travel? How much travel is acceptable? How much freedom do you want in a job? Do you have the personality characteristics to succeed? Are you willing to transfer to another city? Another state?

16. Success in Selling–What Does it Take? Love of Selling Is At Heart of Helping Others (Success)

17. Exhibit 1.10: Harry Potter and You Have Something in Common You both have the freedom to choose the type of person you want to be and thus how you will treat others.

18. Personal Characteristics Needed to Sell for Building Long-term Relationships Joy in work Harmony in relationship Patience in closing the sale Kind to people Morally ethical Faithful to your word Fairness in the sale Caring for customer Self-control in emotions Salesperson

19. Personal Characteristics Needed to Sell for Building Long-term Relationships

20. Putting the Customer First Requires Salespeople to Have Personal Characteristics That Allow Them To: Care for the customer Take joy in their work Find harmony in the sales relationship Have patience in closing the sale Be kind to all people Have high moral ethics Be faithful to one’s word Be fair in the sale Be self-controlled in emotions

21. How Would You Answer These Questions? Do these success characteristics describe you? Do you have all, or part, of them? Can you develop the missing ones?

22. Once Again, Are You: Caring? Joyful? Able to get along with others? Patient? Kind? Ethical? Honest? Fair? Self-controlled?

23. Connect the Dots: Can you think OUT OF THE BOX The following puzzle illustrates how you can be held back from breaking through. The challenge is to connect all nine dots with four straight lines, without lifting your pencil from the paper. Try it!

24. Go Beyond the Limits! Start Here To reach your goals 1. 4. 3. 2.

25. We Often Do Not Reach Our Potential Because We set our limits It is hard to breakaway from our old self

26. Relationship Selling Non-adversarial Non-manipulative Consultative Partnering Problem-solving Goal: long-term relationship

27. The Customer is at the Center of the Sales System: ABC’s

28. Analyzeneeds C CUSTOMER Service Gain Commitment Present Product benefits A nalyzeneeds C CUSTOMER S ervice Gain C ommitment Present product B enefits What Are The ABC’S? Analyze, Benefits, Commitment, Service

37. Sales Jobs Are Different Salespeople: Represent their companies to the world Work with little or no supervision Require more people skills Are often allowed to spend company funds May require travel and being away from home

38. What Does a Salesperson Do? Creates new customers Sells more to present customers Builds long-term relationships Provides solutions to customer’s problems Provides service to customers Helps customers resell products to their customers Helps customers use products after purchase Builds goodwill with customers Provides company with market information

39. The Future of Salespeople: Skills Required Learning conceptual skills Example: planning Learning human skills Example: working with customers Learning technical skills Example: selling skills

40. Selling is Both an Art and a Science Selling takes practice, just like golf or tennis Selling is also a science because a growing body of knowledge and objective facts describe selling

41. Preparing for the 21 st Century International and global selling Cultural fluency Language fluency Diversity of salespeople and customers Customer partnerships Ethical and professional behavior E-selling

42. The sales process is a sequential series of actions: 10. Follow-up 9. Close 8. Trial close 7. Meet objections 6. Determine objections 5. Trial close 4. Presentation Building Relationships through the Sales Process 2. Preapproach - planning 3. Approach 1. Prospecting

43. Exhibit 1-19: Ten Important Steps in the Customer Relationship Selling Process 1. Prospecting . Locating and qualifying prospects. 2. Preapproach . Obtaining interview. Planning: determining sales call objective, developing customer profile, customer benefit program, and sales presentation strategies. 3. Approach . Meeting prospect and beginning customized sales presentation. 4. Presentation . Further uncovering needs; relating product benefits to needs using demonstration, dramatization, visuals, and proof statements. 5. Trial close . Asking prospects’ opinions during and after presentation. 6. Objections . Uncovering objections. 7. Meet objections . Satisfactorily answering objections. 8. Trial close . Asking prospect’s opinion after overcoming each objection and immediately before the close. 9. Close . Bringing prospect to the logical conclusion to buy. 10. Follow-up and service . Serving customer after the sale.

44. Sales Universe 1

48. Summary Personal selling is an old and honorable profession Millions of people have chosen sales careers because of: Job availability Personal freedom The challenge Opportunities for success Non-financial rewards Financial rewards

49. Summary, cont… Success comes from: Training Applying knowledge Developing skills Working hard Wanting to succeed Maintaining a positive outlook Effective time management All to take care of the customer

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