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Friday, June 19, 2009

Some Successful Sales Ideas

You've gone through your inventories of skills and interests. From that you've developed a short list of potentially successful business ideas. You've got passion for your idea and you can see a great vision of the future. Only one thing stands in the way of you building a truly successful business.

No matter what kind of product or service you have you're always selling. Your ability to sell yourself, your vision, your services and your product is absolutely essential when it comes to business success. The best business ideas wither on the vine when they're not coupled with successful sales.

If you don't like sales you have one option. Get over it. This is one thing you can't outsource. Over time you may build an entire sales force, but it's still your company. You need to sell other people on the vision. You need to sell other people on the mission. You may need to sell yourself and your entire team to investors. You may find yourself facing a huge buyer-opportunity and the client wants to meet you. If you can't manage sales, you're going to be in trouble.

Even if you're planning on starting a nonprofit charity, you still need to sell people on the benefit of your mission. That's the only way you can raise money to make it possible to help other people.

Keep in mind those sales as not about manipulation. There's an adage that the best sales people are the ones that you never notice. Unfortunately this leaves the stereotypical salespeople very visible to the public and that creates the negative impression that many people have. Sales are about listening to people and understanding their problems and challenges and matching a solution to their problems.

In sales training terminology this is known as prospecting. If a person doesn't have a problem that matches with your solution then you don't sell them anything. However skilled salespeople will ask for referrals and well they should. After all, if you have a solution to somebody's problem isn't that a good thing?

As you develop your new business, take into consideration the all important issue of sales. Try to imagine a real person that will benefit from what you have. The more real that vision is to you, the easier you will find it to talk to people, to solve problems, and to be the number one salesperson cheering on every one of your successful business ideas.

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