Hi there! I hope that all of you are doing great today. The question for today is..... did you sell anything this week? Last week I said that we are all born to sell. We just have to reach inside of us and take the first step. Did someone sell you on something or some idea this week? Sure the did we all have been sold to and sold to others through out our lives. Some times though the task of selling when it is your job can be hard. There are many factors that come into play. Some of the of the times it is just us the sales people. We maybe get set in the way things are. We don't want or maybe feel that we need to change. We like the way things are going and we are content. We are content with our pay, or our hours, so we just simply don't bother growing either one. We then become maintainers, not sales people anymore.
Sometimes maybe we just get in over our heads and become scared to let anyone else in on it until we get called in on the carpet for non performance. Maybe you put on blinders and just like the race horse you then only focus on what is right in front of you, never looking to the left or right. All you can see is the end of the day or even that particular project.
Rejection is probably the main reason that causes a sales person to cease selling and fail. Rejection does not feel good. If it comes from a spouse, a friend, a co-worker, a supervisor or especially a customer. If sales is you career in life than you deal with rejection all of the time. You must overcome, adapt and realize that it is part of the nature of the business that we are in.
Get help from the same people as I stated above or find someone that can be and is willing to mentor you. Turn to motivational books or Cd's. The world is filled with all of the hope that you need to succeed. Believe it or not everyone wants to succeed and wants you to succeed.
