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How many people have you met who have said to you thay cannot sell to save themselves. Well I believe salesmen and women are made not born. Most people find it really difficult at the beginning but learn from their mistakes and move on.

It may surprise you to know but for the most part people are always looking for ways o better themselves. If you want evidence, research the sales figures on the number of self-improvement books sold every year. people have realized they have to continue improving their ability to sell themselves and their services and products.

Confidence is the key to selling and confidence comes, first and foremost, from knowledge. You have to know and understand yourself and your goals. You have to recognize and accept your weaknesses as well as your special talents. This requires a kind of personal honesty that not everyone is capable of exercising.

In addition to knowing yourself, you must continue learning about people. Just as with yourself, you must be caring, forgiving and laudatory with others. In any sales effort, you must accept other people as they are, not as you would like for them to be. One of the most common faults of sales people is impatience when the prospective customer is slow to understand or make a decision. The successful salesperson handles these situations the same as he would if he were asking a girl for a date, or even applying for a new job.

Learning your product, making a clear presentation to qualified prospects, and closing more sales will take a lot less time once you know your own capabilities and failings, and understand and care about the prospects you are calling upon.

Our society is predicated upon selling, and all of us are selling something all the time. We move up or stand still in direct relation to our sales efforts. Everyone is included, whether we're attempting to be a friend to a co-worker, a neighbour, or selling multi-million dollar real estate projects. Accepting these facts will enable you to understand that there is no such thing as a born salesman. Indeed, in selling, we all begin at the same starting line, and we all have the same finish line as the goal - a successful sale.

Most assuredly, anyone can sell anything to anybody. As a qualification to this statement, let us say that some things are easier to sell than others, and some people work harder at selling than others. But regardless of what you're selling, or even how you're attempting to sell it, the odds are in your favor. If you make your presentation to enough people, you'll find a buyer. The problem with most people seems to be in making contact - getting their sales presentation seen by, read by, or heard by enough people. But this really shouldn't be a problem, as we'll explain later. There is a problem of impatience, but this too can be harnessed to work in the salesperson's favor.

We have established that we're all salespeople in one way or another. So whether we're attempting to move up from forklift driver to warehouse manager, wait ress to hostess, salesman to sales manager or from mail order dealer to president of the largest sales organization in the world, it's vitally important that we continue learning.

Getting up out of bed in the morning; doing what has to be done in order to sell more units of your product; keeping records, updating your materials; planning the direction of further sales efforts; and all the while increasing your own knowledge - all this very definitely requires a great deal of personal motivation, discipline, and energy. But then the rewards can be beyond your wildest dreams, for make no mistake about it, the selling profession is the highest paid occupation in the world!

Selling is challenging. It demands the utmost of your creativity and innovative thinking. The more success you want, and the more dedicated you are to achieving your goals, the more you'll sell. Hundreds of people the world over become millionaires each month through selling. Many of them were flat broke and unable to find a "regular" job when they began their selling careers. Yet they've done it, and you can do it too!

Remember, it's the surest way to all the wealth you could ever want. You get paid according to your own efforts, skill, and knowledge of people. If you're ready to become rich, then think seriously about selling a product or service (prefer ably something exclusively yours) - something that you "pull out of your brain;" something that you write, manufacture or produce for the benefit of other people. But failing this, the want ads are full of opportunities for ambitious sales people. You can start there, study, learn from experience, and watch for the chance that will allow you to move ahead by leaps and bounds.

Here are some guidelines that will definitely improve your gross sales, and quite naturally, your gross income. I like to call them the Strategic Salesmanship Commandments. Look them over; give some thought to each of them; and adapt those that you can to your own selling efforts.

1. If the product you're selling is something your prospect can hold in his hands, get it into his hands as quickly as possible. In other words, get the prospect "into the act." Let him feel it, weigh it, admire it as in the Puppy Dog Technique





2. You need to answer the prospects questions in your sales page. To do this of course you need to cover every conceivable question and obstacle to buying your product that you can come up with. Missing one obstacle to in the prospects mind could loose you a sale.



3. Remember that selling online as out in the real world , time is money! Therefore, you must allocate only so much time to each project. If it is not pulling in sales it is time to tweak your sales page and try again. You have to keep doing this until you are satisfied with the sales you are getting.

4. Review your sales presentation, your sales materials, and your prospecting efforts. Make sure you have a "door-opener" that arouses interest and "forces" a purchase the first time around. This can be a $2 interest stimulator so that you can show him your full line, or a special marked-down price on an item that
everybody wants; but the important thing is to get the prospect on your "buying customer" list, and then follow up via mail or telephone with related, but more
profitable products you have to offer.

Avoid These Things On Your Site

Each page on your website should have 2 goals. 1/ to be interesting enough that veiwers want to read it and 2/ have a plan of action on it. It can either lead to a sales page or it could be asking them to sign up for a newsletter etc etc. Here are some things you should try to avoid.

1. Try not to clutter your web site especially the sales page or readers will get distracted and miss your sales message and that's the whole point isn't it?

2. Try not to use words that do not add to the sales message. You do not have much time to persuade the reader to buy or take some form of action,so make every word count.

3. Do not assume that everyone will understand your sales message. Use examples to if need be to get the point across. Another idea would be so show illustrations or pictures.

4. Don't let the reader forget your product or services Unique Selling Point. Mention it 2 or 3 times in case they missed it.


5. Try not bunch up all your words and paragraphs. Readers like to scan the page so steer clear of long paragraphs and break it up with a lot of headings and subheadings which will keep them interested.


6. Do not fill your site with irrelevant content. If your site is about chess, don't talk about checkers or you will quickly loose their interest and custom. While I,m on this subject you should never have a hyperlink on your sales page that would encourage the reader to go to another site. You should funnel the reader to your sales copy and keep him or her there until they have taken the action you want them to.

7. Don't use different fonts and formats all over the site. If your text is hard to read or even uncomfortable people will change to another site.

8. Don't make it hard to understand. Readers will not sit with a dictionary beside them when surfing the internet so try to keep the words simple and easy to describe your product or service..

9. Try not to let selling words and phrases go unnoticed. Highlight important words and phrases with color, bolding, italics, underlining, or anything else you can think off.


10. Try not to forget to use words that create emotion in the reader. Encourage them to smell, feel and taste the product with their minds. This is a very strong selling tool.


If you already have a site up and running you could take a quick glance over it to make sure you are not breaking any of these guidlines. Speak to you soon

How To Sell Online

Why sell online? Well did you know according to a recent Nielsen Global Online Survey (February 2008), "85 per cent of the online population has shopped online."

S From PowerReviews' Social Shopping Study 2007: "65 per cent of consumers actively seek reviews." Therefore the concern for the buying public is that we do not trust companies and the average viewer will do a lot of shopping around before he or she will buy. The point is we must get the reader to trust us and this is done by mastering the techniques I will be illustrating in How To Sell Online.

I will take you through the basic and advanced steps of selling online. The internet surpasses all other vehicles for selling because of the vast amounts of viewers you can get to your site and also the fact that you do not need to face rejection. Write your sales copy , stick it on your website and get as much traffic to that site as possible. For rookies to the internet business writing copy can be daunting. I hope How To Sell Online will help you write eye catching copy which will convert your readers into buyers. The first point is write your copy as if you were saying it. This is somewhat harder than what it sounds, but the more you write the easier it gets.

To get you started, here are some words that will catch your readers eye and encourage them to take action.

Discount: for obvious reasons
New: Most people like to be the first to try things out
Fast: Encourages people to buy quickly
Easy: People like simple instructions
Guaranteed: Security in their purchase
Limited: Gets them to sign up fast
You: Personalises the copy

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